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Main Authors: Morita, Ryugo, Frolov, Stanislav, Moser, Brian Bernhard, Watanabe, Ko, Takahashi, Riku, Sukeda, Issey, Dengel, Andreas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10319
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author Morita, Ryugo
Frolov, Stanislav
Moser, Brian Bernhard
Watanabe, Ko
Takahashi, Riku
Sukeda, Issey
Dengel, Andreas
author_facet Morita, Ryugo
Frolov, Stanislav
Moser, Brian Bernhard
Watanabe, Ko
Takahashi, Riku
Sukeda, Issey
Dengel, Andreas
contents Layered image assets are widely used in real-world creative workflows, enabling non-destructive iteration and flexible re-composition. Recent advances in layered image generation and decomposition synthesize or recover layered representations, yet controllable editing of layered images remains challenging. Manual editing requires careful coordination across layers to maintain consistent illumination and contact, while AI-based pipelines collapse layers into a flattened image for editing, then decompose them again, introducing background-to-foreground leakage and unstable transparency. To address these limitations, we propose LimeCross, a training-free context-conditioned layered image editing framework that edits user-selected RGBA layers according to text while keeping the remaining layers unchanged. It leverages contextual cues from other layers using a bi-stream attention mechanism to preserve cross-layer consistency, while explicitly maintaining layer integrity to prevent the contamination of edited layers. To evaluate our approach, we introduce LayerEditBench, a benchmark of 1500 layered scenes with paired source/target prompts, along with evaluation protocols that assess both edit fidelity and alpha channel stability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LimeCross improves layer purity and composite realism over strong editing baselines, establishing context-conditioned layered editing as a principled framework for controllable generative creation.
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spellingShingle LimeCross: Context-Conditioned Layered Image Editing with Structural Consistency
Morita, Ryugo
Frolov, Stanislav
Moser, Brian Bernhard
Watanabe, Ko
Takahashi, Riku
Sukeda, Issey
Dengel, Andreas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Layered image assets are widely used in real-world creative workflows, enabling non-destructive iteration and flexible re-composition. Recent advances in layered image generation and decomposition synthesize or recover layered representations, yet controllable editing of layered images remains challenging. Manual editing requires careful coordination across layers to maintain consistent illumination and contact, while AI-based pipelines collapse layers into a flattened image for editing, then decompose them again, introducing background-to-foreground leakage and unstable transparency. To address these limitations, we propose LimeCross, a training-free context-conditioned layered image editing framework that edits user-selected RGBA layers according to text while keeping the remaining layers unchanged. It leverages contextual cues from other layers using a bi-stream attention mechanism to preserve cross-layer consistency, while explicitly maintaining layer integrity to prevent the contamination of edited layers. To evaluate our approach, we introduce LayerEditBench, a benchmark of 1500 layered scenes with paired source/target prompts, along with evaluation protocols that assess both edit fidelity and alpha channel stability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LimeCross improves layer purity and composite realism over strong editing baselines, establishing context-conditioned layered editing as a principled framework for controllable generative creation.
title LimeCross: Context-Conditioned Layered Image Editing with Structural Consistency
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10319