TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images

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Main Authors: Agrawal, Aishwarya, Hirsch, Roy, Onoe, Yasumasa, Ben, Sherry, Baldridge, Jason
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Published: 2026
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author Agrawal, Aishwarya
Hirsch, Roy
Onoe, Yasumasa
Ben, Sherry
Baldridge, Jason
author_facet Agrawal, Aishwarya
Hirsch, Roy
Onoe, Yasumasa
Ben, Sherry
Baldridge, Jason
contents Despite tremendous recent progress, current text-guided image editing methods still struggle with many aspects of editing involving instruction following, minimally editing the source image, and ensuring high visual quality. These problems are especially apparent when the requested edit is challenging, such as those that involve position, motion, viewpoint, scale and creative edits. To systematically test generative image editors, we propose a novel image editing benchmark -- TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images. TECCI consists of a completely new set of images we are releasing. The images in TECCI span 7 image categories. The images and these categories were curated intentionally to target weaknesses of existing methods. The edit instructions in TECCI are automatically generated by Gemini, covering 5 edit types per source image. We also curated a set of 530 images for which we created challenging manually written edit instructions. Overall, TECCI contains 7550 pairs of images and edit instructions. We conduct human evaluations of five leading image editing models on TECCI. Humans judge outputs along three dimensions: 1) instruction following, 2) minimality of the edits, and 3) visual quality. To scale-up the evaluation, we also build an auto-rater using Gemini that achieves 74.7% accuracy in matching human evaluations. Our evaluations reveal that: 1) none of the models exceed a 22% overall success rate, demonstrating the challenging nature of TECCI, 2) Nano Banana Pro is the best performing model overall, 3) models perform significantly better at instruction following compared to minimal edits and visual quality, 4) models struggle with editing architecture and nature images which require strong understanding of spatial layout and intricate visual details. 5) reasoning and creative edits are the most difficult, whereas color and appearance edits are the easiest.
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spellingShingle TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images
Agrawal, Aishwarya
Hirsch, Roy
Onoe, Yasumasa
Ben, Sherry
Baldridge, Jason
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Despite tremendous recent progress, current text-guided image editing methods still struggle with many aspects of editing involving instruction following, minimally editing the source image, and ensuring high visual quality. These problems are especially apparent when the requested edit is challenging, such as those that involve position, motion, viewpoint, scale and creative edits. To systematically test generative image editors, we propose a novel image editing benchmark -- TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images. TECCI consists of a completely new set of images we are releasing. The images in TECCI span 7 image categories. The images and these categories were curated intentionally to target weaknesses of existing methods. The edit instructions in TECCI are automatically generated by Gemini, covering 5 edit types per source image. We also curated a set of 530 images for which we created challenging manually written edit instructions. Overall, TECCI contains 7550 pairs of images and edit instructions. We conduct human evaluations of five leading image editing models on TECCI. Humans judge outputs along three dimensions: 1) instruction following, 2) minimality of the edits, and 3) visual quality. To scale-up the evaluation, we also build an auto-rater using Gemini that achieves 74.7% accuracy in matching human evaluations. Our evaluations reveal that: 1) none of the models exceed a 22% overall success rate, demonstrating the challenging nature of TECCI, 2) Nano Banana Pro is the best performing model overall, 3) models perform significantly better at instruction following compared to minimal edits and visual quality, 4) models struggle with editing architecture and nature images which require strong understanding of spatial layout and intricate visual details. 5) reasoning and creative edits are the most difficult, whereas color and appearance edits are the easiest.
title TECCI: Tricky Edits of Collected and Curated Images
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01213