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Getting close to the holy grail of social image creation
InstantId is a landmark project, which is able to generate stylized images from a single photo of a Subject. The project comes from a Chinese team, variously from Peking University and tech firms Xiaohongshu and Kuaishou amongst others.
We are getting ever closer to the holy grail of social image creation: photos of you hanging with your friends at the pyramids in Egypt…without ever having to go there. This would remove the creation bottleneck to social media photography. InstantID is a dramatic improvement over the older methods like Low-Rank Adaption, a fine-tuning method that it itself is only 2 years old. Even LoRA required dozens of images in its latest iteration, while InstantID drops the number of required images to just one. Meanwhile the currently in vogue IP Adapter method only produces weakly similar images by identif…
