MagiCapture: High-Resolution Multi-Concept Portrait Customization

TL;DR

MagiCapture is a novel personalization method that fine-tunes large-scale text-to-image models to generate high-resolution, realistic portrait images with specific styles and subjects using minimal reference images.

Contribution

The paper introduces MagiCapture, a new approach with Attention Refocusing loss and auxiliary priors for high-quality portrait synthesis from limited references.

Findings

Outperforms baseline methods in quality and realism

Effective in generating styled and personalized portraits

Generalizes to non-human objects

Abstract

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.