T2I-Adapter

T2I-Adapter is a lightweight adapter for controlling and providing more accurate structure guidance for text-to-image models. It works by learning an alignment between the internal knowledge of the text-to-image model and an external control signal, such as edge detection or depth estimation.

The T2I-Adapter design is simple, the condition is passed to four feature extraction blocks and three downsample blocks. This makes it fast and easy to train different adapters for different conditions which can be plugged into the text-to-image model. T2I-Adapter is similar to ControlNet except it is smaller (~77M parameters) and faster because it only runs once during the diffusion process. The downside is that performance may be slightly worse than ControlNet.

This guide will show you how to use T2I-Adapter with different Stable Diffusion models and how you can compose multiple T2I-Adapters to impose more than one condition.

Before you begin, make sure you have the following libraries installed.

# uncomment to install the necessary libraries in Colab
#!pip install -q diffusers accelerate controlnet-aux==0.0.7

Text-to-image

Text-to-image models rely on a prompt to generate an image, but sometimes, text alone may not be enough to provide more accurate structural guidance. T2I-Adapter allows you to provide an additional control image to guide the generation process. For example, you can provide a canny image (a white outline of an image on a black background) to guide the model to generate an image with a similar structure.

Create a canny image with the opencv-library.

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import cv2
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
from diffusers.utils import load_image

image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main/sd_controlnet/hf-logo.png")
image = np.array(image)

low_threshold = 100
high_threshold = 200

image = cv2.Canny(image, low_threshold, high_threshold)
image = Image.fromarray(image)

Now load a T2I-Adapter conditioned on canny images and pass it to the StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline.

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import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline, T2IAdapter

adapter = T2IAdapter.from_pretrained("TencentARC/t2iadapter_canny_sd15v2", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipeline = StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5",
    adapter=adapter,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
)
pipeline.to("cuda")

Finally, pass your prompt and control image to the pipeline.

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generator = torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0)

image = pipeline(
    prompt="cinematic photo of a plush and soft midcentury style rug on a wooden floor, 35mm photograph, film, professional, 4k, highly detailed",
    image=image,
    generator=generator,
).images[0]
image

MultiAdapter

T2I-Adapters are also composable, allowing you to use more than one adapter to impose multiple control conditions on an image. For example, you can use a pose map to provide structural control and a depth map for depth control. This is enabled by the MultiAdapter class.

Let’s condition a text-to-image model with a pose and depth adapter. Create and place your depth and pose image and in a list.

from diffusers.utils import load_image

pose_image = load_image(
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/docs-images/resolve/main/t2i-adapter/keypose_sample_input.png"
)
depth_image = load_image(
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/diffusers/docs-images/resolve/main/t2i-adapter/depth_sample_input.png"
)
cond = [pose_image, depth_image]
prompt = ["Santa Claus walking into an office room with a beautiful city view"]

Load the corresponding pose and depth adapters as a list in the MultiAdapter class.

import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline, MultiAdapter, T2IAdapter

adapters = MultiAdapter(
    [
        T2IAdapter.from_pretrained("TencentARC/t2iadapter_keypose_sd14v1"),
        T2IAdapter.from_pretrained("TencentARC/t2iadapter_depth_sd14v1"),
    ]
)
adapters = adapters.to(torch.float16)

Finally, load a StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline with the adapters, and pass your prompt and conditioned images to it. Use the adapter_conditioning_scale to adjust the weight of each adapter on the image.

pipeline = StableDiffusionAdapterPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    adapter=adapters,
).to("cuda")

image = pipeline(prompt, cond, adapter_conditioning_scale=[0.7, 0.7]).images[0]
image