PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding
Authors: Zhen Li, Mingdeng Cao, Xintao Wang, Zhongang Qi, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ying Shan

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have made remarkable progress in synthesizing realistic human photos conditioned on given text prompts. However existing personalized generation methods cannot simultaneously satisfy the requirements of high efficiency promising identity (ID) fidelity and flexible text controllability. In this work we introduce PhotoMaker an efficient personalized text-to-image generation method which mainly encodes an arbitrary number of input ID images into a stack ID embedding for preserving ID information. Such an embedding also empowers our method to be applied in many interesting scenarios such as when replacing the corresponding class word and when combining the characteristics of different identities. Besides to better drive the training of our PhotoMaker we propose an ID-oriented data creation pipeline to assemble the training data. Under the nourishment of the dataset constructed through the proposed pipeline our PhotoMaker demonstrates comparable performance to test-time fine-tuning-based methods yet provides significant speed improvements strong generalization capabilities and a wide range of applications.