StyleDrop is an AI tool developed by Google Research that enables the generation of images in any specific style. Powered by Muse, a text-to-image generative vision transformer, StyleDrop is designed to capture nuanced details of a user-provided style including color schemes, shading, design patterns, and local and global effects. The tool achieves this by fine-tuning a small number of trainable parameters, less than 1% of the model’s total parameters. It can further enhance the image quality through iterative training and can even produce impressive results with just a single image as the style reference.Compared to other methods such as DreamBooth and Textual Inversion, StyleDrop convincingly outperforms in style tuning text-to-image models, as demonstrated by an extensive study. It generates high-quality images from text prompts, appending natural language style descriptors to content descriptors during both training and generation. The tool can generate consistent-styled images of alphabets and also provides the capability to collaborate and train with your own brand assets. By combining StyleDrop with DreamBooth, users can generate images of “MY SUBJECT” in “MY STYLE”.Acknowledgments are given to image owners, and links to the image assets used in the experiments are provided. StyleDrop on Muse, a discrete-token-based vision transformer, shows superior performance in style-tuning when compared to existing diffusion-based models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion. StyleDrop is a versatile tool that allows users to create visually appealing images by leveraging the power of AI and style transfer techniques.
