What is latent blending?

Latent blending enables you to generate super smooth video transitions between prompts. It is based on stable diffusion 2.1. The key idea is to take the intermediate latent representations and mix them together before further developing them. You can fully specify how this happens or use presets.

Quickstart

fp_ckpt = 'path_to_SD2.ckpt'
fp_config = 'path_to_config.yaml'

sdh = StableDiffusionHolder(fp_ckpt, fp_config, device)
lb = LatentBlending(sdh)

lb.load_branching_profile(quality='medium', depth_strength=0.4)
lb.set_prompt1('photo of my first prompt1')
lb.set_prompt2('photo of my second prompt')

imgs_transition = lb.run_transition()

Gradio UI

To run the UI on your local machine, run gradio_ui.py

Example 1: Simple transition

To run a simple transition between two prompts, run example1_standard.py

Example 2: Inpainting transition

To run a transition between two prompts where you want some part of the image to remain static, run example2_inpaint.py

Example 3: concatenated transition

To run multiple transition between K prompts, resulting in a stitched video, run example3_multitrans.py

Relevant parameters

Installation

Packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Download Models from Huggingface

Download the Stable Diffusion v2-1_768 Model

Download the Stable Diffusion 2.0 Inpainting Model (optional)

(Optional) Install Xformers

With xformers, stable diffusion 2 will run a bit faster. The recommended way of installation is via the supplied binaries (Linux).

conda install xformers -c xformers/label/dev

Alternatively, you can build it from source:

# (Optional) Makes the build much faster
pip install ninja
# Set TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST if running and building on different GPU types
pip install -v -U git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers.git@main#egg=xformers
# (this can take dozens of minutes)

How does it work

what makes a transition a good transition?

• absence of movement
• every frame looks like a credible photo