---
license: openrail
datasets:
- ChristophSchuhmann/improved_aesthetics_6.5plus
language:
- en
---

Based on my GitHub monologs at [Edge Drawing - a Canny alternative](https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet/discussions/318)

Controls image generation by edge maps generated with [EdgeDrawing Parameter-Free](https://github.com/CihanTopal/ED_Lib).

For usage see the model page on [Civitai.com](https://civitai.com/models/149740). For evaluation see the corresponding .zip files with images. To run your own evaluation you can use [inference.py](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3602096).

**EdgeDrawing Parameter-Free**

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/64c0ec65a2ec8cb2f589233a/jmdCGeMJx4dKFGo44cuEq.png)

**Example**

sampler=UniPC steps=20 cfg=7.5 seed=0 batch=9 model: v1-5-pruned-emaonly.safetensors cherry-picked: 1/9

prompt: _a detailed high-quality professional photo of swedish woman standing in front of a mirror, dark brown hair, white hat with purple feather_

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/64c0ec65a2ec8cb2f589233a/2PSWsmzLdHeVG-i67S7jF.png)

**Canndy Edge Detection (default in Automatic1111)**

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/64c0ec65a2ec8cb2f589233a/JZTpa-HZfw0NUYnxZ52Iu.png)

# Image dataset

* [laion2B-en aesthetics>=6.5 dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ChristophSchuhmann/improved_aesthetics_6.5plus)
* `--min_image_size 512 --max_aspect_ratio 2 --resize_mode="center_crop" --image_size 512`
* resulting in 180k images

# Training

```
accelerate launch train_controlnet.py ^
  --pretrained_model_name_or_path="runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5" ^
  --output_dir="control-edgedrawing-[version]-fp16/" ^
  --dataset_name="mydataset" ^
  --mixed_precision="fp16" ^
  --resolution=512 ^
  --learning_rate=1e-5 ^
  --train_batch_size=1 ^
  --gradient_accumulation_steps=4 ^
  --gradient_checkpointing ^
  --use_8bit_adam ^
  --enable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention ^
  --set_grads_to_none ^
  --seed=0
```

# Versions

**Experiment 5 - control-edgedrawing-cv480edpf-drop0+50-fp16-checkpoint-118000**

see experiment 4. resumed with epoch 2 from 90000 using `--proportion_empty_prompts=0.5` => results became worse, CN didn't pick up on no-prompts (I also tried checkpoint-104000). restarting with 50% drop.

**Experiment 4 - control-edgedrawing-cv480edpf-drop0-fp16-checkpoint-90000**

Conditioning images generated with [edpf.py](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3601881) using [opencv-contrib-python::ximgproc::EdgeDrawing](https://docs.opencv.org/4.8.0/d1/d1c/classcv_1_1ximgproc_1_1EdgeDrawing.html).

```
ed     = cv2.ximgproc.createEdgeDrawing()
params = cv2.ximgproc.EdgeDrawing.Params()
params.PFmode = True
ed.setParams(params)
edges    = ed.detectEdges(image)
edge_map = ed.getEdgeImage(edges)
``` 

90000 steps (45000 steps on original, 45000 steps with left-right flipped images)

**Experiment 3 - control-edgedrawing-cv480edpf-drop0-fp16-checkpoint-45000**

see experiment 4. 45000 steps. This is version 0.1 on civitai.

**Experiment 2 - control-edgedrawing-default-noisy-drop0-fp16-checkpoint-40000**

Images converted with https://github.com/shaojunluo/EDLinePython

Default settings are:

`smoothed=False`

```
{ 'ksize'            :  5
, 'sigma'            :  1.0
, 'gradientThreshold': 36
, 'anchorThreshold'  :  8
, 'scanIntervals'    :  1
}
```

`smoothed=True`, but no empty prompts. Trained for 40000 steps with default settings => conditioning images are too noisy.

**Experiment 1 - control-edgedrawing-default-drop50-fp16-checkpoint-40000**

Same as experiment 2.

Update: bug in algorithm produces too sparse images on default, see https://github.com/shaojunluo/EDLinePython/issues/4

additional arguments: `--proportion_empty_prompts=0.5`. Trained for 40000 steps with default settings => empty prompts were probably too excessive

# Question and answers

**Q: What's the point of another edge control net anyway?**

A: 🤷