Make-A-Storyboard: A General Framework for Storyboard with Disentangled
  and Merged Control
Sitong Su Litao Guo Lianli Gao Heng Tao Shen Jingkuan Song
Story Visualization aims to generate images aligned with story prompts,
reflecting the coherence of storybooks through visual consistency among
characters and scenes.Whereas current approaches exclusively concentrate on
characters and neglect the visual consistency among contextually correlated
scenes, resulting in independent character images without inter-image
coherence.To tackle this issue, we propose a new presentation form for Story
Visualization called Storyboard, inspired by film-making, as illustrated in
Fig.1.Specifically, a Storyboard unfolds a story into visual representations
scene by scene. Within each scene in Storyboard, characters engage in
activities at the same location, necessitating both visually consistent scenes
and characters.For Storyboard, we design a general framework coined as
Make-A-Storyboard that applies disentangled control over the consistency of
contextual correlated characters and scenes and then merge them to form
harmonized images.Extensive experiments demonstrate 1) Effectiveness.the
effectiveness of the method in story alignment, character consistency, and
scene correlation; 2) Generalization. Our method could be seamlessly integrated
into mainstream Image Customization methods, empowering them with the
capability of story visualization.