Co-Painter: Fine-Grained Controllable Image Stylization via Implicit Decoupling and Adaptive Injection

Controllable diffusion models have been widely applied in image stylization. However, existing methods often treat the style in the reference image as a single, indivisible entity, which makes it difficult to transfer specific stylistic attributes. To address this issue, we propose a fine-grained controllable image stylization framework, Co-PAINTER, to decouple multiple attributes embedded in the reference image and adaptively inject them into the diffusion model. We first build a multi-condition image stylization framework based on the text-to-image generation model. Then, to drive it, we develop a fine-grained decoupling mechanism to implicitly separate the attributes from the image. Finally, we design a gated feature injection mechanism to adaptively regulate the importance of multiple attributes. To support the above procedure, we also build a dataset with fine-grained styles. It comprises nearly 48,000 image-text pairs samples. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed model achieves an optimal balance between text alignment and style similarity to reference images, both in standard and fine-grained settings. Our code: https://github.com/bowen310/Co-Painter