# Magic Clothing: Controllable Garment-Driven Image Synthesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09512 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09512/

## Key facts

- Cited by 23 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 39 of its 55 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Apr 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, 30 of 39)

- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09685/) (2021)
- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018)
- [BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.12086/) (2022)
- [Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03206/) (2024)
- [LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08402/) (2022)
- [DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12242/) (2022)
- [Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.09841/) (2020)
- [InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09800/) (2022)
- [Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01626/) (2022)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.05101/) (2017)
- [Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.08050/) (2016)
- [Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.13826/) (2023)
- [Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17117/) (2023)
- [Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.01714/) (2022)
- [Zero-shot Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03027/) (2023)
- [UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.04867/) (2023)
- [Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.03881/) (2023)
- [BLIP-Diffusion: Pre-trained Subject Representation for Controllable Text-to-Image Generation and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14720/) (2023)
- [InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.03411/) (2023)
- [Convolutional Pose Machines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.00134/) (2016)
- [VITON-HD: High-Resolution Virtual Try-On via Misalignment-Aware Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16874/) (2021)
- [Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystack](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.15807/) (2023)
- [Hand Keypoint Detection in Single Images using Multiview Bootstrapping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.07809/) (2017)
- [Break-A-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.16311/) (2023)
- [Versatile Diffusion: Text, Images and Variations All in One Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.08332/) (2022)
- [Self-Correction for Human Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.09777/) (2019)
- [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)

## Built on by (most cited first, 23 of 23)

- [IMAGDressing-v1: Customizable Virtual Dressing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12705/) (2024)
- [Any2AnyTryon: Leveraging Adaptive Position Embeddings for Versatile Virtual Clothing Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.15891/) (2025)
- [FreeEdit: Mask-free Reference-based Image Editing with Multi-modal Instruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.18071/) (2024)
- [IMAGGarment: Fine-Grained Garment Generation for Controllable Fashion Design](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13176/) (2025)
- [OmniTry: Virtual Try-On Anything without Masks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.13632/) (2025)
- [VITON-DiT: Learning In-the-Wild Video Try-On from Human Dance Videos via Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18326/) (2024)
- [DreamFit: Garment-Centric Human Generation via a Lightweight Anything-Dressing Encoder](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.17644/) (2024)
- [AnyDressing: Customizable Multi-Garment Virtual Dressing via Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.04146/) (2024)
- [Dynamic Try-On: Taming Video Virtual Try-on with Dynamic Attention Mechanism](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.09822/) (2024)
- [Disentangling Foreground and Background Motion for Enhanced Realism in Human Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.16393/) (2024)
- [Controllable Human Image Generation with Personalized Multi-Garments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.16801/) (2024)
- [Extremely low-bitrate Image Compression Semantically Disentangled by LMMs from a Human Perception Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.00399/) (2025)
- [UniFit: Towards Universal Virtual Try-on with MLLM-Guided Semantic Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.15831/) (2025)
- [CustAny: Customizing Anything from A Single Example](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11643/) (2024)
- [RefAdGen: High-Fidelity Advertising Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.11695/) (2025)
- [OmniDiT: Extending Diffusion Transformer to Omni-VTON Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.19643/) (2026)
- [FashionComposer: Compositional Fashion Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.14168/) (2024)
- [Fashionability-Enhancing Outfit Image Editing with Conditional Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18421/) (2024)
- [Fine-Grained Controllable Apparel Showcase Image Generation via Garment-Centric Outpainting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.01294/) (2025)
- [DiffFit: Disentangled Garment Warping and Texture Refinement for Virtual Try-On](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.23295/) (2025)
- [FashionMAC: Deformation-Free Fashion Image Generation with Fine-Grained Model Appearance Customization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.14031/) (2025)
- [VersaVogue: Visual Expert Orchestration and Preference Alignment for Unified Fashion Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.07210/) (2026)
- [Fashion130K: An E-commerce Fashion Dataset for Outfit Generation with Unified Multi-modal Condition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.10127/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose Magic Clothing, a latent diffusion model (LDM)-based network architecture for an unexplored garment-driven image synthesis task. Aiming at generating customized characters wearing the target garments with diverse text prompts, the image controllability is the most critical issue, i.e., to preserve the garment details and maintain faithfulness to the text prompts. To this end, we introduce a garment extractor to capture the detailed garment features, and employ self-attention fusion to incorporate them into the pretrained LDMs, ensuring that the garment details remain unchanged on the target character. Then, we leverage the joint classifier-free guidance to balance the control of garment features and text prompts over the generated results. Meanwhile, the proposed garment extractor is a plug-in module applicable to various finetuned LDMs, and it can be combined with other extensions like ControlNet and IP-Adapter to enhance the diversity and controllability of the generated characters. Furthermore, we design Matched-Points-LPIPS (MP-LPIPS), a robust metric for evaluating the consistency of the target image to the source garment. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Magic Clothing achieves state-of-the-art results under various conditional controls for garment-driven image synthesis. Our source code is available at https://github.com/ShineChen1024/MagicClothing.