Image Generation from Arabic Text: Comparative Study of Proposed Architectures
摘要
Text-to-image generation is a cutting-edge technology that enables computers to generate images from textual descriptions. While this technology has been extensively researched and applied to English language text, applying it to Arabic language text is still in its early stages. Additionally, the Arabic language is challenging due to its right-to-left writing system and extensive vocabulary of 1.3 million words. In this paper, we explore text-to-image generation for generating images from Arabic language text descriptions. Firstly, we fine-tune a transformer-based model pre-trained on the Arabic text to transform the text information into affine transformation within the DF-GAN generator. Secondly, we present a text transformer that combines LSTM layers to address the limitation of unrecognized words. Thirdly, a mask predictor is trained into the generator using a weakly supervised method and incorporated into the affine transformation for a more effective integration of image and text features. In addition, we add the DAMSM loss function as a regularization to the loss function to achieve convergences and stability in the training phase. The experiment on two challenging datasets CUB and Oxford-flower shows that our architectures can accurately generate high-quality images faithfully representing the Arabic textual descriptions. We believe the scaling of this task could have critical applications in fields such as Arabic visual learning, e-commerce, advertising, and entertainment.