COLLAR: Cascaded Object-Level Latent Refinement for High-Fidelity Conditional Generation
About
Achieving high-fidelity object-level control in Diffusion Transformers remains a significant challenge despite the introduction of structural priors like depth and Canny maps. Current object-level conditional generation methods frequently suffer from visual artifacts and struggle to maintain precise control over objects within small localized regions. To address these limitations, we propose Cascaded Object-Level Latent Refinement (COLLAR), a training-free framework that progressively optimizes object-level features via the Field-of-View (FoV) expansion. First, we propose the Cross-Scale Semantic Alignment (CSSA) module to address spatial-semantic gaps by injecting object-level features into extended-FoV branches via attention mechanisms. To further optimize these features, the Cyclic Feature Injection (CFI) module introduces a reciprocal background feedback mechanism. It leverages a frequency-based adaptive strategy to selectively update the global backbone with context-aligned local information. Finally, the extended-FoV branch serves as a hub for feature optimization, ensuring that object-level features are integrated into the global generation process without compromising final image quality. Extensive experiments on the COCO-MIG and COCO-POS benchmarks demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across semantic alignment, image quality, and spatial fidelity.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canny-conditioned Multi-instance Generation | COCO-MIG Canny (test) | ISR (n=2)34.9 | 7 | |
| Depth-conditioned Multi-instance Generation | COCO-MIG Depth (test) | Image Success Ratio (n=2)65.3 | 7 | |
| Multi-Instance Generation | COCO-POS Canny (test) | G-CLIP27.1 | 7 | |
| Multi-Instance Generation | COCO-POS Depth (test) | G-CLIP27.19 | 7 | |
| Depth-conditioned Image Generation | Conditional Generation Benchmark SD3-based | G-CLIP29.11 | 3 |