# Interact-Custom: Customized Human Object Interaction Image Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19575 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.19575/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 25 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Aug 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 25 of 25)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Segment Anything](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02643/) (2023)
- [DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.07193/) (2023)
- [DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12242/) (2022)
- [InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Tasks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.14238/) (2023)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [InstantID: Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.07519/) (2024)
- [AnyDoor: Zero-shot Object-level Image Customization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.09481/) (2023)
- [PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.04461/) (2023)
- [FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.10431/) (2023)
- [Mix-of-Show: Decentralized Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Concept Customization of Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18292/) (2023)
- [Action Genome: Actions as Composition of Spatio-temporal Scene Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.06992/) (2019)
- [Key-Locked Rank One Editing for Text-to-Image Personalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.01644/) (2023)
- [Subject-Diffusion:Open Domain Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-time Fine-tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.11410/) (2023)
- [Visual Semantic Role Labeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04474/) (2015)
- [IMPRINT: Generative Object Compositing by Learning Identity-Preserving Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10701/) (2024)
- [FreeCustom: Tuning-Free Customized Image Generation for Multi-Concept Composition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.13870/) (2024)
- [MultiBooth: Towards Generating All Your Concepts in an Image from Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.14239/) (2024)
- [ControlCom: Controllable Image Composition using Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.10040/) (2023)
- [Resolving Multi-Condition Confusion for Finetuning-Free Personalized Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.17920/) (2024)
- [Exploring Conditional Multi-Modal Prompts for Zero-shot HOI Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.02484/) (2024)
- [Exploring the Potential of Large Foundation Models for Open-Vocabulary HOI Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06194/) (2024)
- [ST-HOI: A Spatial-Temporal Baseline for Human-Object Interaction Detection in Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.11731/) (2021)
- [ConMo: Controllable Motion Disentanglement and Recomposition for Zero-Shot Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02451/) (2025)
- [Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.13827/) (2025)

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

- [Taming I2V models for Image HOI Editing: A Cognitive Benchmark and Agentic Self-Correcting Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.19073/) (2026)
- [MIBE: Multi-subject Interaction Benchmark and Evaluator for Personalized Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.01383/) (2026)
- [Music-to-Dance Generation via Atomic Movements](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.13978/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Compositional Customized Image Generation aims to customize multiple target concepts within generation content, which has gained attention for its wild application. Existing approaches mainly concentrate on the target entity's appearance preservation, while neglecting the fine-grained interaction control among target entities. To enable the model of such interaction control capability, we focus on human object interaction scenario and propose the task of Customized Human Object Interaction Image Generation(CHOI), which simultaneously requires identity preservation for target human object and the interaction semantic control between them. Two primary challenges exist for CHOI:(1)simultaneous identity preservation and interaction control demands require the model to decompose the human object into self-contained identity features and pose-oriented interaction features, while the current HOI image datasets fail to provide ideal samples for such feature-decomposed learning.(2)inappropriate spatial configuration between human and object may lead to the lack of desired interaction semantics. To tackle it, we first process a large-scale dataset, where each sample encompasses the same pair of human object involving different interactive poses. Then we design a two-stage model Interact-Custom, which firstly explicitly models the spatial configuration by generating a foreground mask depicting the interaction behavior, then under the guidance of this mask, we generate the target human object interacting while preserving their identities features. Furthermore, if the background image and the union location of where the target human object should appear are provided by users, Interact-Custom also provides the optional functionality to specify them, offering high content controllability. Extensive experiments on our tailored metrics for CHOI task demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.