diff --git a/invokeai/backend/image_util/util.py b/invokeai/backend/image_util/util.py
index 5b8be7f118..067adfa15e 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/image_util/util.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/image_util/util.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from math import ceil, floor, sqrt
 
+import cv2
+import numpy as np
 from PIL import Image
 
 
@@ -69,3 +71,134 @@ def make_grid(image_list, rows=None, cols=None):
             i = i + 1
 
     return grid_img
+
+
+def pil_to_np(image: Image.Image) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Converts a PIL image to a numpy array."""
+    return np.array(image, dtype=np.uint8)
+
+
+def np_to_pil(image: np.ndarray) -> Image.Image:
+    """Converts a numpy array to a PIL image."""
+    return Image.fromarray(image)
+
+
+def pil_to_cv2(image: Image.Image) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Converts a PIL image to a CV2 image."""
+    return cv2.cvtColor(np.array(image, dtype=np.uint8), cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
+
+
+def cv2_to_pil(image: np.ndarray) -> Image.Image:
+    """Converts a CV2 image to a PIL image."""
+    return Image.fromarray(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))
+
+
+def normalize_image_channel_count(image: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Normalizes an image to have 3 channels.
+
+    If the image has 1 channel, it will be duplicated 3 times.
+    If the image has 1 channel, a third empty channel will be added.
+    If the image has 4 channels, the alpha channel will be used to blend the image with a white background.
+
+    This function is adapted from https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet.
+
+    Args:
+        image: The input image.
+
+    Returns:
+        The normalized image.
+    """
+    assert image.dtype == np.uint8
+    if image.ndim == 2:
+        image = image[:, :, None]
+    assert image.ndim == 3
+    _height, _width, channels = image.shape
+    assert channels == 1 or channels == 3 or channels == 4
+    if channels == 3:
+        return image
+    if channels == 1:
+        return np.concatenate([image, image, image], axis=2)
+    if channels == 4:
+        color = image[:, :, 0:3].astype(np.float32)
+        alpha = image[:, :, 3:4].astype(np.float32) / 255.0
+        normalized = color * alpha + 255.0 * (1.0 - alpha)
+        normalized = normalized.clip(0, 255).astype(np.uint8)
+        return normalized
+
+    raise ValueError("Invalid number of channels.")
+
+
+def fit_image_to_resolution(input_image: np.ndarray, resolution: int) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Resizes an image, fitting it to the given resolution.
+
+    This function is adapted from https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet.
+
+    Args:
+        input_image: The input image.
+        resolution: The resolution to fit the image to.
+
+    Returns:
+        The resized image.
+    """
+    h = float(input_image.shape[0])
+    w = float(input_image.shape[1])
+    scaling_factor = float(resolution) / min(h, w)
+    h *= scaling_factor
+    w *= scaling_factor
+    h = int(np.round(h / 64.0)) * 64
+    w = int(np.round(w / 64.0)) * 64
+    if scaling_factor > 1:
+        return cv2.resize(input_image, (w, h), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LANCZOS4)
+    else:
+        return cv2.resize(input_image, (w, h), interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
+
+
+def non_maximum_suppression(image: np.ndarray, threshold: int, sigma: float):
+    """
+    Apply non-maximum suppression to an image.
+
+    This function is adapted from https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet.
+
+    Args:
+        image: The input image.
+        threshold: The threshold value for the suppression. Pixels with values greater than this will be set to 255.
+        sigma: The standard deviation for the Gaussian blur applied to the image.
+
+    Returns:
+        The image after non-maximum suppression.
+    """
+
+    image = cv2.GaussianBlur(image.astype(np.float32), (0, 0), sigma)
+
+    filter_1 = np.array([[0, 0, 0], [1, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0]], dtype=np.uint8)
+    filter_2 = np.array([[0, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0]], dtype=np.uint8)
+    filter_3 = np.array([[1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]], dtype=np.uint8)
+    filter_4 = np.array([[0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0], [1, 0, 0]], dtype=np.uint8)
+
+    y = np.zeros_like(image)
+
+    for f in [filter_1, filter_2, filter_3, filter_4]:
+        np.putmask(y, cv2.dilate(image, kernel=f) == image, image)
+
+    z = np.zeros_like(y, dtype=np.uint8)
+    z[y > threshold] = 255
+    return z
+
+
+def safe_step(x: np.ndarray, step: int = 2) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Apply the safe step operation to an array.
+
+    I don't fully understand the purpose of this function, but it appears to be normalizing/quantizing the array.
+
+    This function is adapted from https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet.
+
+    Args:
+        x: The input array.
+        step: The step value.
+
+    Returns:
+        The array after the safe step operation.
+    """
+    y = x.astype(np.float32) * float(step + 1)
+    y = y.astype(np.int32).astype(np.float32) / float(step)
+    return y