# PFDM: Parser-Free Virtual Try-on via Diffusion Model

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03047 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03047/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 24 of its 29 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Feb 2024.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [3D, point cloud and scene generation](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/3d-point-cloud-and-scene-generation/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 24 of 24)

- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05233/) (2021)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.09672/) (2021)
- [Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.09841/) (2020)
- [VITON-HD: High-Resolution Virtual Try-On via Misalignment-Aware Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16874/) (2021)
- [VITON: An Image-based Virtual Try-on Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08447/) (2017)
- [Toward Characteristic-Preserving Image-based Virtual Try-On Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.07688/) (2018)
- [Dress Code: High-Resolution Multi-Category Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.08532/) (2022)
- [LaDI-VTON: Latent Diffusion Textual-Inversion Enhanced Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13501/) (2023)
- [Parser-Free Virtual Try-on via Distilling Appearance Flows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04559/) (2021)
- [TryOnDiffusion: A Tale of Two UNets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.08276/) (2023)
- [High-Resolution Virtual Try-On with Misalignment and Occlusion-Handled Conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.14180/) (2022)
- [Taming the Power of Diffusion Models for High-Quality Virtual Try-On with Appearance Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06101/) (2023)
- [GP-VTON: Towards General Purpose Virtual Try-on via Collaborative Local-Flow Global-Parsing Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13756/) (2023)
- [Style-Based Global Appearance Flow for Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.01046/) (2022)
- [Do Not Mask What You Do Not Need to Mask: a Parser-Free Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.02721/) (2020)
- [Disentangled Cycle Consistency for Highly-realistic Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.09479/) (2021)
- [Multimodal Garment Designer: Human-Centric Latent Diffusion Models for Fashion Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02051/) (2023)
- [Diffusion Model for Camouflaged Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.00303/) (2023)
- [Dressing in the Wild by Watching Dance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.15320/) (2022)
- [SPG-VTON: Semantic Prediction Guidance for Multi-pose Virtual Try-on](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01578/) (2021)
- [RMGN: A Regional Mask Guided Network for Parser-free Virtual Try-on](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11258/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [GaussianVTON: 3D Human Virtual Try-ON via Multi-Stage Gaussian Splatting Editing with Image Prompting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.07472/) (2024)
- [OmniDiT: Extending Diffusion Transformer to Omni-VTON Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.19643/) (2026)
- [JewelTry: Mask-Free Scale Aware Jewelry Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.16626/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Virtual try-on can significantly improve the garment shopping experiences in both online and in-store scenarios, attracting broad interest in computer vision. However, to achieve high-fidelity try-on performance, most state-of-the-art methods still rely on accurate segmentation masks, which are often produced by near-perfect parsers or manual labeling. To overcome the bottleneck, we propose a parser-free virtual try-on method based on the diffusion model (PFDM). Given two images, PFDM can "wear" garments on the target person seamlessly by implicitly warping without any other information. To learn the model effectively, we synthesize many pseudo-images and construct sample pairs by wearing various garments on persons. Supervised by the large-scale expanded dataset, we fuse the person and garment features using a proposed Garment Fusion Attention (GFA) mechanism. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed PFDM can successfully handle complex cases, synthesize high-fidelity images, and outperform both state-of-the-art parser-free and parser-based models.