Alibaba's latest AI portrait generation project EcomID and its ComfyUI plug-in have caused a stir in the field of AI portrait generation. It not only inherits the advantages of InstantID and PulID, but also achieves breakthrough progress in image generation quality, identity feature stability, and user experience, bringing innovation to areas with high image quality requirements such as e-commerce.
Alibaba recently released the new AI portrait generation project EcomID and launched its ComfyUI native implementation plug-in. This tool has brought a significant breakthrough in the currently popular AI portrait generation track, not only perfectly inheriting the advantages of InstantID and PulID, but also achieving innovation in multiple key indicators.
At the technical level, EcomID adopts an innovative architectural design. The project draws on PuLID's ID-Encoder and cross-attention components, significantly reducing the interference of ID embedding to text embedding through alignment loss training.
The project team created the IdentityNet architecture based on 2 million selected portrait images. While keeping the IP-adapter frozen, it uses facial key points as conditional inputs to achieve more accurate facial feature control.
The biggest highlight of EcomID is its excellent image generation effect. The system can not only generate more realistic and beautiful portraits, but also maintain stable identity characteristics in appearance changes such as age, hairstyle, glasses, etc.
Another significant advantage is that it completely retains the text-to-image function, which not only generates high-quality backgrounds but also minimizes the degree of stylization, greatly improving the realism of the generated image.
At the practical application level, SDXL-EcomID brings a brand new user experience to ComfyUI users. This plug-in supports two workflows: basic and face change, and the operation is simple and intuitive. Users only need to complete simple installation steps and configure necessary dependency libraries such as insightface and onnxruntime to get started. The system supports flexible resolution settings and is recommended to use a CFG value of 6 for best results.
What’s even more surprising is that SDXL-EcomID also offers premium customization features. Users can independently adjust the weight parameters of the ip-adapter model and ControlNet to achieve more refined picture control. This feature allows the tool to show great adaptability when dealing with complex image generation requirements.
This update undoubtedly injects new vitality into the field of AI portrait generation, especially for areas such as e-commerce that require high image quality. By providing more realistic and more stable portrait generation capabilities, EcomID is redefining the quality standards for AI image generation.
Project address: https://github.com/alimama-creative/SDXL_EcomID_ComfyUI
The emergence of EcomID marks a significant advancement in AI portrait generation technology. Its convenient operations and powerful functions will bring users a better AI image generation experience. We look forward to the application of EcomID in more fields in the future to promote the development of AI technology.