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MagiCapture: High-Resolution Multi-Concept Portrait Customization

arXiv 2309.06895 ↗First posted 13 Sep 2023cs.CV cs.GR cs.LGcited by 20

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Large-scale text-to-image models including Stable Diffusion are capable of generating high-fidelity photorealistic portrait images. There is an active research area dedicated to personalizing these models, aiming to synthesize specific subjects or styles using provided sets of reference images. However, despite the plausible results from these personalization methods, they tend to produce images that often fall short of realism and are not yet on a commercially viable level. This is particularly noticeable in portrait image generation, where any unnatural artifact in human faces is easily discernible due to our inherent human bias. To address this, we introduce MagiCapture, a personalization method for integrating subject and style concepts to generate high-resolution portrait images using just a few subject and style references. For instance, given a handful of random selfies, our fine-tuned model can generate high-quality portrait images in specific styles, such as passport or profile photos. The main challenge with this task is the absence of ground truth for the composed concepts, leading to a reduction in the quality of the final output and an identity shift of the source subject. To address these issues, we present a novel Attention Refocusing loss coupled with auxiliary priors, both of which facilitate robust learning within this weakly supervised learning setting. Our pipeline also includes additional post-processing steps to ensure the creation of highly realistic outputs. MagiCapture outperforms other baselines in both quantitative and qualitative evaluations and can also be generalized to other non-human objects.

Key facts. Cited by 20 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 32 of its 38 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Sep 2023.

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  1. 2023FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention17 May
  2. 2023SVDiff: Compact Parameter Space for Diffusion Fine-Tuning20 Mar
  3. 2022Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion8 Dec
  4. 2022Diffusion-based Image Translation using Disentangled Style and Content Representation30 Sep
  5. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  6. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  7. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  8. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec
  9. 2021DiffusionCLIP: Text-Guided Diffusion Models for Robust Image Manipulation6 Oct

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  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 21,076
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
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  9. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
  10. 2022An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversioncited by 2,245
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  3. 2020In-Domain GAN Inversion for Real Image Editingcited by 420
  4. 2023ELITE: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Customized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 416
  5. 2023InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuningcited by 345
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  11. 2018ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognitioncited by 56

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  1. 2023VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Promptscited by 126
  2. 2024Controllable Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Surveycited by 83
  3. 2023FaceStudio: Put Your Face Everywhere in Secondscited by 53
  4. 2024IDAdapter: Learning Mixed Features for Tuning-Free Personalization of Text-to-Image Modelscited by 32
  5. 2025Does FLUX Already Know How to Perform Physically Plausible Image Composition?cited by 32
  6. 2024A Survey on Personalized Content Synthesis with Diffusion Modelscited by 29
  7. 2025Personalize Anything for Free with Diffusion Transformercited by 23
  8. 2025Personalized Image Generation with Deep Generative Models: A Decade Surveycited by 20
  9. 2025WithAnyone: Towards Controllable and ID Consistent Image Generationcited by 17
  10. 2023Cross Initialization for Personalized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 10
  11. 2024AttnDreamBooth: Towards Text-Aligned Personalized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 10
  12. 2025DynamicID: Zero-Shot Multi-ID Image Personalization with Flexible Facial Editabilitycited by 10
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  1. 2025A Comprehensive Survey on Visual Concept Mining in Text-to-image Diffusion Modelscited by 5
  2. 2025ConceptSplit: Decoupled Multi-Concept Personalization of Diffusion Models via Token-wise Adaptation and Attention Disentanglementcited by 3
  3. 2024MasterWeaver: Taming Editability and Face Identity for Personalized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 2
  4. 2025ACCORD: Alleviating Concept Coupling through Dependence Regularization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Personalizationcited by 1
  5. 2023FAAC: Facial Animation Generation with Anchor Frame and Conditional Control for Superior Fidelity and Editabilitycited by 0
  6. 2025Improving Personalized Image Generation through Social Context Feedbackcited by 0
  7. 2025TIDE: Achieving Balanced Subject-Driven Image Generation via Target-Instructed Diffusion Enhancementcited by 0
  8. 2026AnyPhoto: Multi-Person Identity Preserving Image Generation with ID Adaptive Modulation on Location Canvascited by 0

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  2. 2023PortraitBooth: A Versatile Portrait Model for Fast Identity-preserved Personalization
  3. 2025IC-Portrait: In-Context Matching for View-Consistent Personalized Portrait
  4. 2025Generating Synthetic Data via Augmentations for Improved Facial Resemblance in DreamBooth and InstantID
  5. 2026FaceSnap: Enhanced ID-fidelity Network for Tuning-free Portrait Customization
  6. 2026ExpPortrait: Expressive Portrait Generation via Personalized Representation
  7. 2024Imagine yourself: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
  8. 2024Magic Insert: Style-Aware Drag-and-Drop