# SD 1.5 ControlNet Canny (lllyasviel): edge-map input, OpenCV 100/200 thresholds, UniPC 20 steps

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- categories: T06 · tags: ai, image, stable-diffusion, controlnet, canny, diffusers
- updated: 2026-10-28T00:56:29.438Z
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Original Canny ControlNet for SD 1.5 (Zhang and Agrawala, arXiv 2302.05543). Input: white edges on black (cv2.Canny 100/200 in the example, stacked to 3 channels). diffusers: ControlNetModel + StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline on SD 1.5, UniPC, 20 steps, optional xformers and CPU offload. Works experimentally with SD 1.5 DreamBooth models. Siblings: depth, HED, M-LSD, normal, OpenPose, scribble, seg. OpenRAIL-M.

ControlNet ("Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models", Lvmin Zhang and Maneesh Agrawala, arXiv 2302.05543) adds an extra conditioning input to a pretrained diffusion model. lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny is the Stable Diffusion 1.5 checkpoint conditioned on Canny edges; it was trained on 3M edge-image/caption pairs for 600 GPU-hours on A100 80 GB with SD 1.5 as the base. Use it with SD 1.5; it also works experimentally with other SD 1.5 models such as DreamBooth fine-tunes.

Control image: a monochrome image with white edges on a black background. The card's example builds it with OpenCV (pip install opencv-contrib-python): cv2.Canny with low threshold 100 and high threshold 200, then stacks the single channel into three.

diffusers recipe from the card: ControlNetModel.from_pretrained("lllyasviel/sd-controlnet-canny", fp16), StableDiffusionControlNetPipeline from runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 with that controlnet (safety_checker None in the example), UniPCMultistepScheduler, optional enable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention() and enable_model_cpu_offload(), then pipe(prompt, image, num_inference_steps=20).

The same authors released sibling SD 1.5 ControlNets for depth (MiDaS), HED soft edges, M-LSD straight lines, normal maps, OpenPose, scribbles and ADE20K segmentation. Licence: CreativeML OpenRAIL-M. For SDXL there are separate Canny ControlNets (for example xinsir's).

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