A new tool promises to bring low-cost, high-resolution artificial intelligence (AI) image generation to a wider audience. It can achieve this without powerful computers behind a paywall.
Up until now, to create a high-quality AI image, users had to subscribe to a service like Midjourney or DALLE-3, or buy their own very powerful computers.
DemoFusion lets users generate a basic image using a freely available, open-source AI model like Stable Diffusion, then enhance it, adding more detail and features, at a much higher resolution. The necessary computing power is available on any mid-range gaming PC or a Mac M1.
Professor Yi-Zhe Song, whose group created the technique at the University of Surrey, said, "For the first time, our unique technique lets users enhance their AI-generated images without the need for vast computing power, or any re-training of the model.
"Digital art and imagery is a powerful medium which everyone should have access to—not just a handful of wealthy corporations. That's why we made DemoFusion publicly available. We believe it can enrich our lives, and everyone should be able to use it."
The new technique is described in the paper, "DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation with No $$$," posted to the arXiv preprint server.
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