library_name: pytorch
license: other
tags:
- generative_ai
- android
pipeline_tag: unconditional-image-generation
ControlNet-Canny: Optimized for Mobile Deployment
Generating visual arts from text prompt and input guiding image
On-device, high-resolution image synthesis from text and image prompts. ControlNet guides Stable-diffusion with provided input image to generate accurate images from given input prompt.
This model is an implementation of ControlNet-Canny found here.
This repository provides scripts to run ControlNet-Canny on Qualcomm® devices. More details on model performance across various devices, can be found here.
Model Details
- Model Type: Model_use_case.image_generation
- Model Stats:
- Input: Text prompt and input image as a reference
- Conditioning Input: Canny-Edge
- Text Encoder Number of parameters: 340M
- UNet Number of parameters: 865M
- VAE Decoder Number of parameters: 83M
- ControlNet Number of parameters: 361M
- Model size: 1.4GB
| Model | Precision | Device | Chipset | Target Runtime | Inference Time (ms) | Peak Memory Range (MB) | Primary Compute Unit | Target Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| text_encoder | w8a16 | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 5.498 ms | 0 - 162 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| text_encoder | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 3.956 ms | 0 - 19 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| text_encoder | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S25 | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 3.113 ms | 0 - 15 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| text_encoder | w8a16 | Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 QRD | Snapdragon® 7 Gen 4 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 5.77 ms | 0 - 14 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| text_encoder | w8a16 | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 2.67 ms | 0 - 10 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| text_encoder | w8a16 | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 5.629 ms | 157 - 157 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 118.597 ms | 0 - 884 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 84.656 ms | 13 - 30 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S25 | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 66.542 ms | 5 - 16 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 QRD | Snapdragon® 7 Gen 4 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 178.134 ms | 13 - 28 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 46.089 ms | 13 - 27 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| unet | w8a16 | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 115.82 ms | 829 - 829 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 218.452 ms | 0 - 67 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 162.809 ms | 3 - 21 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S25 | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 146.805 ms | 3 - 19 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 QRD | Snapdragon® 7 Gen 4 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 445.931 ms | 3 - 17 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 94.664 ms | 5 - 15 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| vae | w8a16 | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 219.693 ms | 59 - 59 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | QCS8550 (Proxy) | Qualcomm® QCS8550 (Proxy) | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 59.385 ms | 0 - 385 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S24 | Snapdragon® 8 Gen 3 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 45.318 ms | 31 - 49 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | Samsung Galaxy S25 | Snapdragon® 8 Elite For Galaxy Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 33.035 ms | 33 - 44 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 QRD | Snapdragon® 7 Gen 4 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 112.564 ms | 34 - 48 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 QRD | Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen5 Mobile | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 30.002 ms | 32 - 46 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
| controlnet | w8a16 | Snapdragon X Elite CRD | Snapdragon® X Elite | PRECOMPILED_QNN_ONNX | 59.108 ms | 352 - 352 MB | NPU | Use Export Script |
Installation
Install the package via pip:
# NOTE: 3.10 <= PYTHON_VERSION < 3.14 is supported.
pip install "qai-hub-models[controlnet-canny]"
Configure Qualcomm® AI Hub Workbench to run this model on a cloud-hosted device
Sign-in to Qualcomm® AI Hub Workbench with your
Qualcomm® ID. Once signed in navigate to Account -> Settings -> API Token.
With this API token, you can configure your client to run models on the cloud hosted devices.
qai-hub configure --api_token API_TOKEN
Navigate to docs for more information.
Demo off target
The package contains a simple end-to-end demo that downloads pre-trained weights and runs this model on a sample input.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.controlnet_canny.demo
The above demo runs a reference implementation of pre-processing, model inference, and post processing.
NOTE: If you want running in a Jupyter Notebook or Google Colab like environment, please add the following to your cell (instead of the above).
%run -m qai_hub_models.models.controlnet_canny.demo
Run model on a cloud-hosted device
In addition to the demo, you can also run the model on a cloud-hosted Qualcomm® device. This script does the following:
- Performance check on-device on a cloud-hosted device
- Downloads compiled assets that can be deployed on-device for Android.
- Accuracy check between PyTorch and on-device outputs.
python -m qai_hub_models.models.controlnet_canny.export
Deploying compiled model to Android
The models can be deployed using multiple runtimes:
TensorFlow Lite (
.tfliteexport): This tutorial provides a guide to deploy the .tflite model in an Android application.QNN (
.soexport ): This sample app provides instructions on how to use the.soshared library in an Android application.
View on Qualcomm® AI Hub
Get more details on ControlNet-Canny's performance across various devices here. Explore all available models on Qualcomm® AI Hub
License
- The license for the original implementation of ControlNet-Canny can be found here.
- The license for the compiled assets for on-device deployment can be found here
References
Community
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- For questions or feedback please reach out to us.
