PixelControl: Fine-Grained Condition Fidelity in Text-to-Image Diffusion

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Controllable text-to-image diffusion models can often follow the global layout of spatial conditions, yet still violate fine-grained structures such as object boundaries, thin contours, and medium/small conditioned regions. This limitation is especially problematic for VAE-based latent diffusion, where spatial compression can weaken high-frequency and low-area condition signals. We propose PixelControl, a pixel-space controllable diffusion framework for fine-grained condition fidelity. Built on a PixelDiT-style backbone, PixelControl avoids the latent bottleneck and introduces two complementary designs. First, Structure-Aware Control Injection derives a condition structure map and uses it to strengthen injected control residuals around spatially sensitive regions. Second, Multi-Scale Pyramid Cycle Loss verifies generated images against condition-derived structures across multiple resolutions, balancing global layout consistency with local boundary and detail accuracy. PixelControl supports depth, segmentation, edge, and their combinations through modality-specific control branches with lightweight gated fusion. Experiments across depth, segmentation, and edge control show that PixelControl improves structural fidelity and visual quality over existing controllable generation methods, with especially strong gains on boundaries and medium/small conditioned regions. The project page can be found at: https://linxin0.github.io/pixelcontrol_homepage/pixelcontrol-site/

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