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ControlCom: Controllable Image Composition using Diffusion Model

arXiv 2308.10040 ↗First posted 19 Aug 2023cs.CVcited by 43

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images, considering their great potential in image generation. However, they suffer from lack of controllability on foreground attributes and poor preservation of foreground identity. To address these challenges, we propose a controllable image composition method that unifies four tasks in one diffusion model: image blending, image harmonization, view synthesis, and generative composition. Meanwhile, we design a self-supervised training framework coupled with a tailored pipeline of training data preparation. Moreover, we propose a local enhancement module to enhance the foreground details in the diffusion model, improving the foreground fidelity of composite images. The proposed method is evaluated on both public benchmark and real-world data, which demonstrates that our method can generate more faithful and controllable composite images than existing approaches. The code and model will be available at https://github.com/bcmi/ControlCom-Image-Composition.

Key facts. Cited by 43 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 50 of its 61 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 19 Aug 2023.

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  5. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  6. 2022Blended Latent Diffusion6 Jun

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  2. 2024Controllable Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Surveycited by 82
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  9. 2024Thinking Outside the BBox: Unconstrained Generative Object Compositingcited by 19
  10. 2023DreamCom: Finetuning Text-guided Inpainting Model for Image Compositioncited by 17
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  12. 2023Integrating View Conditions for Image Synthesiscited by 16
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  5. 2024TALE: Training-free Cross-domain Image Composition via Adaptive Latent Manipulation and Energy-guided Optimizationcited by 9
  6. 2025Multitwine: Multi-Object Compositing with Text and Layout Controlcited by 9
  7. 2025Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Contextcited by 7
  8. 2025BlenderFusion: 3D-Grounded Visual Editing and Generative Compositingcited by 7
  9. 2025Image Referenced Sketch Colorization Based on Animation Creation Workflowcited by 5
  10. 2024BIFR"OST: 3D-Aware Image compositing with Language Instructionscited by 4
  11. 2024MureObjectStitch: Multi-reference Image Compositioncited by 4
  12. 2024Locate, Assign, Refine: Taming Customized Promptable Image Inpaintingcited by 3
  13. 2025Interact-Custom: Customized Human Object Interaction Image Generationcited by 3
  14. 2024Data Augmentation in Human-Centric Visioncited by 2
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  16. 2024GroupDiff: Diffusion-based Group Portrait Editingcited by 2
  17. 2024InteractPro: A Unified Framework for Motion-Aware Image Compositioncited by 1
  18. 2025From Gallery to Wrist: Realistic 3D Bracelet Insertion in Videoscited by 1
  19. 2025CAD2DMD-SET: Synthetic Generation Tool of Digital Measurement Device CAD Model Datasets for fine-tuning Large Vision-Language Modelscited by 1
  20. 2025RoomEditor++: A Parameter-Sharing Diffusion Architecture for High-Fidelity Furniture Synthesiscited by 1
  21. 2024DepGAN: Leveraging Depth Maps for Handling Occlusions and Transparency in Image Compositioncited by 0
  22. 2025EOPose : Exemplar-based object reposing using Generalized Pose Correspondencescited by 0
  23. 2026OSInsert: Towards High-authenticity and High-fidelity Image Compositioncited by 0
  24. 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactionscited by 0
  25. 2026LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controlscited by 0
  26. 2026ObjectMorpher: 3D-Aware Image Editing via Deformable 3DGS Modelscited by 0
  27. 2026Reflection Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Modelcited by 0
  28. 2026CatalogStitch: Dimension-Aware and Occlusion-Preserving Object Compositing for Catalog Image Generationcited by 0
  29. 2026Lighting-Consistent Object Transfer Across Radiance Fieldscited by 0
  30. 2026presto: Efficient, Training-free, and Open-world Object Placement via Imaginary Searchcited by 0
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