CharaConsist: Fine-Grained Consistent Character Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
In text-to-image generation, producing a series of consistent contents that preserve the same identity is highly valuable for real-world applications. Although a few works have explored training-free methods to enhance the consistency of generated subjects, we observe that they suffer from the following problems. First, they fail to maintain consistent background details, which limits their applicability. Furthermore, when the foreground character undergoes large motion variations, inconsistencies in identity and clothing details become evident. To address these problems, we propose CharaConsist, which employs point-tracking attention and adaptive token merge along with decoupled control of the foreground and background. CharaConsist enables fine-grained consistency for both foreground and background, supporting the generation of one character in continuous shots within a fixed scene or in discrete shots across different scenes. Moreover, CharaConsist is the first consistent generation method tailored for text-to-image DiT model. Its ability to maintain fine-grained consistency, combined with the larger capacity of latest base model, enables it to produce high-quality visual outputs, broadening its applicability to a wider range of real-world scenarios. The source code has been released at https://github.com/Murray-Wang/CharaConsist
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- 2026AttriStory: Fine-grained Attribute Realization for Visual Storytelling with Diffusion Modelscited by 0
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- 2025StoryMem: Multi-shot Long Video Storytelling with Memory22 Dec 2025
- 2025The Devil is in Attention Sharing: Improving Complex Non-rigid Image Editing Faithfulness via Attention Synergy16 Dec 2025
- 2025BachVid: Training-Free Video Generation with Consistent Background and Character24 Oct 2025
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- 2025LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence15 Sep 2025
- 2026Customized Visual Storytelling with Unified Multimodal LLMs29 Mar 2026
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- 2026EvoState: Closed-Loop Visual State Management for Long-Form Video Generationcited by 2
- 2025ContextDrag: Precise Drag-Based Image Editing via Context-Preserving Token Injection and Position-Aligned Attentioncited by 1
- 2026FreeStory: Training-Free Character Consistency for Free-Form Visual Storytellingcited by 1
- 2025Lightning Fast Caching-based Parallel Denoising Prediction for Accelerating Talking Head Generationcited by 0
- 2026EvoTale: Continual Character Customization for Expanding Story Worldscited by 0
- 2026RealDiffusion: Physics-informed Attention for Multi-character Storybook Generationcited by 0
- 2026Motion4Motion: Motion Transfer Across Subjects at Inferencecited by 0
- 2026Sidecar: Training-Free Semantic Reuse for Character-Consistent Free-form Visual Storytellingcited by 0
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- 2026Motion4Motion: Motion Transfer Across Subjects at Inference13 Jul 2026
- 2026FreeStory: Training-Free Character Consistency for Free-Form Visual Storytelling23 Jun 2026
- 2026EvoState: Closed-Loop Visual State Management for Long-Form Video Generation15 Jun 2026
- 2026RealDiffusion: Physics-informed Attention for Multi-character Storybook Generation12 May 2026
- 2026EvoTale: Continual Character Customization for Expanding Story Worlds17 Mar 2026
- 2025ContextDrag: Precise Drag-Based Image Editing via Context-Preserving Token Injection and Position-Aligned Attention9 Dec 2025
- 2025SceneDesigner: Controllable Multi-Object Image Generation with 9-DoF Pose Manipulation20 Nov 2025
- 2025Lightning Fast Caching-based Parallel Denoising Prediction for Accelerating Talking Head Generation25 Aug 2025