Qixun Wang12 · Xu Bai12 · Haofan Wang12* · Zekui Qin12 · Anthony Chen123
Huaxia Li2 · Xu Tang2 · Yao Hu2
1InstantX Team · 2Xiaohongshu Inc · 3Peking University
*corresponding authors
InstantID is a new state-of-the-art tuning-free method to achieve ID-Preserving generation with only single image, supporting various downstream tasks.



Comparison with existing tuning-free state-of-the-art techniques. InstantID achieves better fidelity and retain good text editability (faces and styles blend better).

Comparison with pre-trained character LoRAs. We don't need multiple images and still can achieve competitive results as LoRAs without any training.

Comparison with InsightFace Swapper (also known as ROOP or Refactor). However, in non-realistic style, our work is more flexible on the integration of face and background.
We have adapted InstantID for Kolors. Leveraging Kolors' robust text generation capabilities 👍👍👍, InstantID can be integrated with Kolors to simultaneously generate ID and text.
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You can directly download the model from Huggingface. You also can download the model in python script:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantID", filename="ControlNetModel/config.json", local_dir="./checkpoints")
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantID", filename="ControlNetModel/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors", local_dir="./checkpoints")
hf_hub_download(repo_id="InstantX/InstantID", filename="ip-adapter.bin", local_dir="./checkpoints")
Or run the following command to download all models:
pip install -r gradio_demo/requirements.txt
python gradio_demo/download_models.py
If you cannot access to Huggingface, you can use hf-mirror to download models.
export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com
huggingface-cli download --resume-download InstantX/InstantID --local-dir checkpoints --local-dir-use-symlinks False
For face encoder, you need to manually download via this URL to models/antelopev2 as the default link is invalid. Once you have prepared all models, the folder tree should be like:
.
├── models
├── checkpoints
├── ip_adapter
├── pipeline_stable_diffusion_xl_instantid.py
└── README.md
If you want to reproduce results in the paper, please refer to the code in infer_full.py. If you want to compare the results with other methods, even without using depth-controlnet, it is recommended that you use this code.
If you are pursuing better results, it is recommended to follow InstantID-Rome.
The following code👇 comes from infer.py. If you want to quickly experience InstantID, please refer to the code in infer.py.
# !pip install opencv-python transformers accelerate insightface
import diffusers
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from diffusers.models import ControlNetModel
import cv2
import torch
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
from insightface.app import FaceAnalysis
from pipeline_stable_diffusion_xl_instantid import StableDiffusionXLInstantIDPipeline, draw_kps
# prepare 'antelopev2' under ./models
app = FaceAnalysis(name='antelopev2', root='./', providers=['CUDAExecutionProvider', 'CPUExecutionProvider'])
app.prepare(ctx_id=0, det_size=(640, 640))
# prepare models under ./checkpoints
face_adapter = f'./checkpoints/ip-adapter.bin'
controlnet_path = f'./checkpoints/ControlNetModel'
# load IdentityNet
controlnet = ControlNetModel.from_pretrained(controlnet_path, torch_dtype=torch.float16)
base_model = 'wangqixun/YamerMIX_v8' # from https://civitai.com/models/84040?modelVersionId=196039
pipe = StableDiffusionXLInstantIDPipeline.from_pretrained(
base_model,
controlnet=controlnet,
torch_dtype=torch.float16
)
pipe.cuda()
# load adapter
pipe.load_ip_adapter_instantid(face_adapter)
Then, you can customized your own face images
# load an image
face_image = load_image("./examples/yann-lecun_resize.jpg")
# prepare face emb
face_info = app.get(cv2.cvtColor(np.array(face_image), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR))
face_info = sorted(face_info, key=lambda x:(x['bbox'][2]-x['bbox'][0])*(x['bbox'][3]-x['bbox'][1]))[-1] # only use the maximum face
face_emb = face_info['embedding']
face_kps = draw_kps(face_image, face_info['kps'])
# prompt
prompt = "film noir style, ink sketch|vector, male man, highly detailed, sharp focus, ultra sharpness, monochrome, high contrast, dramatic shadows, 1940s style, mysterious, cinematic"
negative_prompt = "ugly, deformed, noisy, blurry, low contrast, realism, photorealistic, vibrant, colorful"
# generate image
image = pipe(
prompt,
negative_prompt=negative_prompt,
image_embeds=face_emb,
image=face_kps,
controlnet_conditioning_scale=0.8,
ip_adapter_scale=0.8,
).images[0]
To save VRAM, you can enable CPU offloading
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
pipe.enable_vae_tiling()
Our work is compatible with LCM-LoRA. First, download the model.
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
hf_hub_download(repo_id="latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl", filename="pytorch_lora_weights.safetensors", local_dir="./checkpoints")
To use it, you just need to load it and infer with a small num_inference_steps. Note that it is recommendated to set guidance_scale between [0, 1].
from diffusers import LCMScheduler
lcm_lora_path = "./checkpoints/pytorch_lora_weights.safetensors"
pipe.load_lora_weights(lcm_lora_path)
pipe.fuse_lora()
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
num_inference_steps = 10
guidance_scale = 0
Run the following command:
python gradio_demo/app.py
or MultiControlNet version:
gradio_demo/app-multicontrolnet.py
The code of InstantID is released under Apache License for both academic and commercial usage. However, both manual-downloading and auto-downloading face models from insightface are for non-commercial research purposes only according to their license. Our released checkpoints are also for research purposes only. Users are granted the freedom to create images using this tool, but they are obligated to comply with local laws and utilize it responsibly. The developers will not assume any responsibility for potential misuse by users.
If you find this project useful, you can buy us a coffee via Github Sponsor! We support Paypal and WeChat Pay.
If you find InstantID useful for your research and applications, please cite us using this BibTeX:
@article{wang2024instantid,
title={InstantID: Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds},
author={Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07519},
year={2024}
}
For any question, please feel free to contact us via haofanwang.ai@gmail.com or wangqixun.ai@gmail.com.
$ claude mcp add InstantID \
-- python -m otcore.mcp_server <graph>