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5. Diffusion Models_ Introduction to AI Algorithms _ " 2. Introduction to AI algorithms"

Updated: Oct 16


The original pattern pixels are dispersed and broken up, and then AI is used to identify the general diffusion trend of each pixel at different times, and the trend is traced back to restore the original image to analyze the pixel composition characteristics of this type of image.



AI analyzes the pixel arrangement of a large number of ordered patterns to find out the composition characteristics of the pixels of such patterns .


Detailed explanation of the video principle: Artificial intelligence doctoral student tells you how the SORA diffusion model produces videos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMKa4075VZg&t=512s


Stable Diffusion Architecture


UNet is the largest component model in Stable Diffusion.


Generating high-quality images typically requires multiple steps, often 20 steps or more.


It requires a significant amount of computational resources.


 

U-Net

U-Net: An Introduction to a Deep Learning Model for Image Segmentation


In the fields of medical image analysis and computer vision, image segmentation is a critical task.


U-Net is a deep learning model specifically designed for image segmentation. Since its introduction by Olaf Ronneberger and others in 2015, it has become one of the standard architectures in the field.


This article will explore the structure, working principle, and applications of U-Net.


1. Basic Structure of U-Net

The name U-Net comes from its unique U-shaped architecture, which consists of two main parts: the contracting path (Encoder) and the expansive path (Decoder).


1.1 Contracting Path

The contracting path is composed of a series of convolutional layers and pooling layers, which are used to extract features from the image. Each layer contains two convolution operations, typically using the ReLU activation function, followed by a max pooling layer. This process gradually reduces the spatial dimensions of the image while enhancing the abstraction of the features.


1.2 Expansive Path

The expansive path consists of upsampling (usually using transposed convolution) and convolution layers, aiming to restore the feature maps to the same size as the original image. After each upsampling step, U-Net connects the feature maps from the contracting path with the current layer's feature maps. This skip connection helps retain high-resolution detail information.


1.3 Final Layer

In the final layer of the expansive path, U-Net uses a 1x1 convolution layer to map the feature maps to the required number of classes, allowing a class label to be assigned to each pixel.


 

2. Advantages of U-Net


The design of U-Net offers several advantages for image segmentation tasks:


  • Efficiency: U-Net can learn from fewer training samples, which is crucial in data-scarce fields such as medical imaging.


  • Accuracy: Skip connections effectively preserve image details, which is essential for accurately segmenting boundaries.


  • Flexibility: U-Net can be widely applied to various types of image segmentation tasks, whether in medical imaging, satellite imagery, or other types of images.


 

3. Applications of U-Net


U-Net has demonstrated its exceptional performance in several fields, primarily including:


3.1 Medical Image Analysis

In the field of medical imaging, U-Net is widely used for tasks such as tumor detection and organ segmentation. It can accurately differentiate between diseased tissue and healthy tissue, assisting doctors in diagnosis.


3.2 Natural Image Segmentation

U-Net is also applied to object segmentation in natural images, helping to identify and segment specific objects within images, such as roads, buildings, and more.


3.3 Satellite Image Processing

In remote sensing technologies, U-Net can be used for land cover classification, urban planning, and other tasks, extracting important information from satellite images.


 

4. Impact and Future

The introduction of U-Net has not only improved the accuracy of image segmentation but also facilitated the development of many subsequent research studies.


Many improved versions and variants, such as Attention U-Net and ResU-Net, have emerged, further enhancing the performance of the model.


As technology advances, the application scope of U-Net will continue to expand and play an important role in various fields such as AI healthcare, intelligent transportation, and environmental monitoring.


 

The low-resolution features of U-Net can be perturbed without significant changes, while small perturbations to the high-resolution features of U-Net can degrade the quality of image generation.


 

Clockwork Architecture

Efficient Approximation:

Efficiently approximates low-resolution features by adapting from previous steps.


Training Adapter

Distillation Process:

Involves distilling the complete U-Net through all denoising steps.


The clockwork architecture leverages perturbation robustness to save computational resources and can enhance the performance of any diffusion model (with a reduction in FLOPS of over 1.4 times).


 

The Potential of Generative Video Editing


Stable Diffusion Architecture

Given an input video and a textual prompt describing the edits, generate a new video.


Key Challenges:

  1. Temporal Consistency

  2. High Computational Cost


 

Making Generative Video Methods Efficient in Edge AI

Optimizing FAIRY1 (a video-to-video generative AI model)


Phase 1: Extracting States from Anchor Frames

Phase 2: Editing the Video in Remaining Frames


Steps Enabled on Device

When generating videos or images, optimize the relationships between different frames to improve efficiency and consistency.


Efficient InstructPix2Pix:

Optimize the InstructPix2Pix model to reduce computational resource consumption and improve processing speed.


Image/Text Guided Conditioning:

Use image and text prompts to guide the generation process, better meeting user needs.


 

Quick FAIRY Results

By significantly reducing computation and memory usage, generating videos on-device becomes feasible.

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