Canvas-to-Image: Compositional Image Generation with Multimodal Controls

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Main Authors: Dalva, Yusuf, Qian, Guocheng Gordon, Goldenberg, Maya, Chen, Tsai-Shien, Aberman, Kfir, Tulyakov, Sergey, Yanardag, Pinar, Wang, Kuan-Chieh Jackson
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author Dalva, Yusuf
Qian, Guocheng Gordon
Goldenberg, Maya
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Aberman, Kfir
Tulyakov, Sergey
Yanardag, Pinar
Wang, Kuan-Chieh Jackson
author_facet Dalva, Yusuf
Qian, Guocheng Gordon
Goldenberg, Maya
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Aberman, Kfir
Tulyakov, Sergey
Yanardag, Pinar
Wang, Kuan-Chieh Jackson
contents While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references, spatial arrangements, pose constraints, and layout annotations. We introduce Canvas-to-Image, a unified framework that consolidates these heterogeneous controls into a single canvas interface, enabling users to generate images that faithfully reflect their intent. Our key idea is to encode diverse control signals into a single composite canvas image that the model can directly interpret for integrated visual-spatial reasoning. We further curate a suite of multi-task datasets and propose a Multi-Task Canvas Training strategy that optimizes the diffusion model to jointly understand and integrate heterogeneous controls into text-to-image generation within a unified learning paradigm. This joint training enables Canvas-to-Image to reason across multiple control modalities rather than relying on task-specific heuristics, and it generalizes well to multi-control scenarios during inference. Extensive experiments show that Canvas-to-Image significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in identity preservation and control adherence across challenging benchmarks, including multi-person composition, pose-controlled composition, layout-constrained generation, and multi-control generation.
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spellingShingle Canvas-to-Image: Compositional Image Generation with Multimodal Controls
Dalva, Yusuf
Qian, Guocheng Gordon
Goldenberg, Maya
Chen, Tsai-Shien
Aberman, Kfir
Tulyakov, Sergey
Yanardag, Pinar
Wang, Kuan-Chieh Jackson
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references, spatial arrangements, pose constraints, and layout annotations. We introduce Canvas-to-Image, a unified framework that consolidates these heterogeneous controls into a single canvas interface, enabling users to generate images that faithfully reflect their intent. Our key idea is to encode diverse control signals into a single composite canvas image that the model can directly interpret for integrated visual-spatial reasoning. We further curate a suite of multi-task datasets and propose a Multi-Task Canvas Training strategy that optimizes the diffusion model to jointly understand and integrate heterogeneous controls into text-to-image generation within a unified learning paradigm. This joint training enables Canvas-to-Image to reason across multiple control modalities rather than relying on task-specific heuristics, and it generalizes well to multi-control scenarios during inference. Extensive experiments show that Canvas-to-Image significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in identity preservation and control adherence across challenging benchmarks, including multi-person composition, pose-controlled composition, layout-constrained generation, and multi-control generation.
title Canvas-to-Image: Compositional Image Generation with Multimodal Controls
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21691