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Decomposing Subject-Driven Image Generation via Intermediate Structural Prediction

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-21 v1

Abstract

Subject-driven text-to-image generation still struggles to preserve high-frequency identity details such as logos, patterns, and text. Existing methods typically operate directly in RGB space, which often leads to detail degradation under substantial edits. We propose a two-stage framework that decouples structure from appearance by first predicting a Canny map and then rendering the final image conditioned on both the source appearance and the predicted structure. To improve text handling, we further introduce a fully automatic pipeline that constructs a 100k-pair text-aware dataset with cross-view textual consistency. Experiments, including GPT-4.1-based evaluation and a knowledge distillation study, show clear gains over selected baselines and suggest that intermediate structural prediction is an effective route for high-fidelity subject-driven generation. Our dataset and code will be made publicly available.

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@article{arxiv.2605.20807,
  title  = {Decomposing Subject-Driven Image Generation via Intermediate Structural Prediction},
  author = {Hanzhong Guo and Yizhou Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20807},
  year   = {2026}
}