Training-Free Image Editing with Visual Context Integration and Concept Alignment

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Main Authors: Song, Rui, Wang, Guo-Hua, Chen, Qing-Guo, Luo, Weihua, Xu, Tongda, Liu, Zhening, Wang, Yan, Lin, Zehong, Zhang, Jun
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author Song, Rui
Wang, Guo-Hua
Chen, Qing-Guo
Luo, Weihua
Xu, Tongda
Liu, Zhening
Wang, Yan
Lin, Zehong
Zhang, Jun
author_facet Song, Rui
Wang, Guo-Hua
Chen, Qing-Guo
Luo, Weihua
Xu, Tongda
Liu, Zhening
Wang, Yan
Lin, Zehong
Zhang, Jun
contents In image editing, it is essential to incorporate a context image to convey the user's precise requirements, such as subject appearance or image style. Existing training-based visual context-aware editing methods incur data collection effort and training cost. On the other hand, the training-free alternatives are typically established on diffusion inversion, which struggles with consistency and flexibility. In this work, we propose VicoEdit, a training-free and inversion-free method to inject the visual context into the pretrained text-prompted editing model. More specifically, VicoEdit directly transforms the source image into the target one based on the visual context, thereby eliminating the need for inversion that can lead to deviated trajectories. Moreover, we design a posterior sampling approach guided by concept alignment to enhance the editing consistency. Empirical results demonstrate that our training-free method achieves even better editing performance than the state-of-the-art training-based models.
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spellingShingle Training-Free Image Editing with Visual Context Integration and Concept Alignment
Song, Rui
Wang, Guo-Hua
Chen, Qing-Guo
Luo, Weihua
Xu, Tongda
Liu, Zhening
Wang, Yan
Lin, Zehong
Zhang, Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In image editing, it is essential to incorporate a context image to convey the user's precise requirements, such as subject appearance or image style. Existing training-based visual context-aware editing methods incur data collection effort and training cost. On the other hand, the training-free alternatives are typically established on diffusion inversion, which struggles with consistency and flexibility. In this work, we propose VicoEdit, a training-free and inversion-free method to inject the visual context into the pretrained text-prompted editing model. More specifically, VicoEdit directly transforms the source image into the target one based on the visual context, thereby eliminating the need for inversion that can lead to deviated trajectories. Moreover, we design a posterior sampling approach guided by concept alignment to enhance the editing consistency. Empirical results demonstrate that our training-free method achieves even better editing performance than the state-of-the-art training-based models.
title Training-Free Image Editing with Visual Context Integration and Concept Alignment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04487