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Insert In Style: A Zero-Shot Generative Framework for Harmonious Cross-Domain Object Composition

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-28 v2

Abstract

Reference-based object composition involves integrating foreground reference image with background scene to produce harmonious fused image. This task becomes particularly challenging in cross-domain scenarios, where models must balance preserving the reference object's identity while harmonizing them to match stylized environments. This under-explored problem is currently split between practical "blenders" that lack generative fidelity and "generators" that require impractical, per-subject online finetuning. In this work, we introduce Insert In Style, the first zero-shot generative framework that is both practical and high-fidelity. Our core contribution is a unified framework with two key innovations: (i) a novel multi-stage training protocol that disentangles representations for identity, style, and composition, and (ii) a specialized masked-attention architecture that surgically enforces this disentanglement during generation (iii) A prior preservation objective that keeps learned identity and style priors intact. By design, this approach mitigates concept interference typical in unified-attention architectures while ensuring robust generalization across diverse references and styles. Our framework is trained on a new 115k sample dataset, curated from a novel data pipeline. This pipeline couples large-scale generation with a rigorous, iterative human-in-the-loop filtering process to ensure both high-fidelity semantic identity and style coherence. Unlike prior work, our model is truly zero-shot and requires no text prompts. We also introduce a new public benchmark for stylized composition. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, significantly outperforming existing methods on both identity and style metrics, a result strongly corroborated by user studies.

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@article{arxiv.2511.15197,
  title  = {Insert In Style: A Zero-Shot Generative Framework for Harmonious Cross-Domain Object Composition},
  author = {Raghu Vamsi Chittersu and Yuvraj Singh Rathore and Pranav Adlinge and Kunal Swami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15197},
  year   = {2026}
}
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