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EliGen: Entity-Level Controlled Image Generation with Regional Attention

Hong Zhang, Zhong-Jie Duan, Xingjun Wang, Ying-Da Chen, Yu Zhang

ACM Multimedia Asia, 2025

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Abstract

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly advanced text-to-image generation, yet global text prompts alone remain insufficient for achieving fine-grained control over individual entities within an image. To address this limitation, we present EliGen, a novel framework for Entity-level controlled image Generation. Firstly, we put forward regional attention, a mechanism for diffusion transformers that requires no additional structures, seamlessly integrating entity prompts and arbitrary-shaped spatial masks. By contributing a high-quality dataset with fine-grained spatial and semantic entity-level annotations, we train EliGen to achieve robust and accurate entity-level manipulation, surpassing existing methods in both spatial precision and image quality. Additionally, we propose an inpainting fusion pipeline, extending EliGen’s capabilities to multi-entity image inpainting tasks. We further demonstrate EliGen’s flexibility by integrating it with other open-source models such as IP-Adapter, In-Context LoRA and MLLM, unlocking new creative possibilities. The source code, model, and dataset will be published.

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