GPS as a Control Signal for Image Generation
Authors: name: Chao Feng, name: Ziyang Chen, name: Aleksander Holynski, name: Alexei A. Efros, name: Andrew Owens

We show that the GPS tags contained in photo metadata provide a useful
control signal for image generation. We train GPS-to-image models and use them
for tasks that require a fine-grained understanding of how images vary within a
city. In particular, we train a diffusion model to generate images conditioned
on both GPS and text. The learned model generates images that capture the
distinctive appearance of different neighborhoods, parks, and landmarks. We
also extract 3D models from 2D GPS-to-image models through score distillation
sampling, using GPS conditioning to constrain the appearance of the
reconstruction from each viewpoint. Our evaluations suggest that our
GPS-conditioned models successfully learn to generate images that vary based on
location, and that GPS conditioning improves estimated 3D structure.