Alibaba has recently launched a new AI portrait generation project called EcomID, along with its native ComfyUI plugin implementation. This tool has brought significant breakthroughs to the currently hot AI portrait generation field, not only perfectly inheriting the advantages of InstantID and PulID but also achieving innovations in several key metrics.
Technically, EcomID employs an innovative architectural design. The project draws on PuLID's ID-Encoder and cross-attention components, significantly reducing the interference of ID embedding on text embedding through alignment loss training.
The project team has built the IdentityNet architecture based on 2 million carefully selected portrait images, achieving more precise facial feature control by using facial key points as conditional inputs while keeping the IP-adapter frozen.
The biggest highlight of EcomID is its outstanding image generation effect. The system can not only generate more realistic and beautiful portraits but also maintain stable identity features in appearance changes such as age, hairstyle, and glasses.
Another significant advantage is its complete retention of the text-to-image function, which generates high-quality backgrounds while minimizing stylization, greatly enhancing the realism of the generated images.
In practical applications, SDXL-EcomID brings a new user experience for ComfyUI users. The plugin supports both basic and face-swapping workflows, with simple and intuitive operations. Users only need to complete simple installation steps and configure necessary dependencies such as insightface and onnxruntime to start using. The system supports flexible resolution settings and recommends using a CFG value of 6 for the best results.
Even more surprisingly, SDXL-EcomID also offers advanced customization features. Users can independently adjust the weight parameters of the ip-adapter model and ControlNet, achieving more refined picture control. This feature makes the tool highly adaptable when dealing with complex image generation requirements.
This update undoubtedly injects new vitality into the AI portrait generation field, especially for sectors like e-commerce that have high demands for image quality. By providing more realistic and stable portrait generation capabilities, EcomID is redefining the quality standards of AI image generation.
Project link: https://github.com/alimama-creative/SDXL_EcomID_ComfyUI