PROVE: A Perceptual RemOVal cohErence Benchmark for Visual Media

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Autores principales: Li, Fuhao, You, Shaofeng, Hu, Jiagao, Liu, Yu, Chen, Yuxuan, Wang, Zepeng, Wang, Fei, Zhou, Daiguo, Luan, Jian
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author Li, Fuhao
You, Shaofeng
Hu, Jiagao
Liu, Yu
Chen, Yuxuan
Wang, Zepeng
Wang, Fei
Zhou, Daiguo
Luan, Jian
author_facet Li, Fuhao
You, Shaofeng
Hu, Jiagao
Liu, Yu
Chen, Yuxuan
Wang, Zepeng
Wang, Fei
Zhou, Daiguo
Luan, Jian
contents Evaluating object removal in images and videos remains challenging because the task is inherently one-to-many, yet existing metrics frequently disagree with human perception. Full-reference metrics reward copy-paste behaviors over genuine erasure; no-reference metrics suffer from systematic biases such as favoring blurry results; and global temporal metrics are insensitive to localized artifacts within edited regions. To address these limitations, we propose RC (Removal Coherence), a pair of perception-aligned metrics: RC-S, which measures spatial coherence via sliding-window feature comparison between masked and background regions, and RC-T, which measures temporal consistency via distribution tracking within shared restored regions across adjacent frames. To validate RC and support community benchmarking, we further introduce PROVE-Bench, a two-tier real-world benchmark comprising PROVE-M, an 80-video paired dataset with motion augmentation, and PROVE-H, a 100-video challenging subset without ground truth. Together, RC metrics and PROVE-Bench form the PROVE (Perceptual RemOVal cohErence) evaluation framework for visual media. Experiments across diverse image and video benchmarks demonstrate that RC achieves substantially stronger alignment with human judgments than existing evaluation protocols. The code for RC metrics and PROVE-Bench are publicly available at: https://github.com/xiaomi-research/prove/.
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spellingShingle PROVE: A Perceptual RemOVal cohErence Benchmark for Visual Media
Li, Fuhao
You, Shaofeng
Hu, Jiagao
Liu, Yu
Chen, Yuxuan
Wang, Zepeng
Wang, Fei
Zhou, Daiguo
Luan, Jian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
Evaluating object removal in images and videos remains challenging because the task is inherently one-to-many, yet existing metrics frequently disagree with human perception. Full-reference metrics reward copy-paste behaviors over genuine erasure; no-reference metrics suffer from systematic biases such as favoring blurry results; and global temporal metrics are insensitive to localized artifacts within edited regions. To address these limitations, we propose RC (Removal Coherence), a pair of perception-aligned metrics: RC-S, which measures spatial coherence via sliding-window feature comparison between masked and background regions, and RC-T, which measures temporal consistency via distribution tracking within shared restored regions across adjacent frames. To validate RC and support community benchmarking, we further introduce PROVE-Bench, a two-tier real-world benchmark comprising PROVE-M, an 80-video paired dataset with motion augmentation, and PROVE-H, a 100-video challenging subset without ground truth. Together, RC metrics and PROVE-Bench form the PROVE (Perceptual RemOVal cohErence) evaluation framework for visual media. Experiments across diverse image and video benchmarks demonstrate that RC achieves substantially stronger alignment with human judgments than existing evaluation protocols. The code for RC metrics and PROVE-Bench are publicly available at: https://github.com/xiaomi-research/prove/.
title PROVE: A Perceptual RemOVal cohErence Benchmark for Visual Media
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14534