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ClickRemoval: An Interactive Open-Source Tool for Object Removal in Diffusion Models

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-15 v1

Abstract

Existing object removal tools often rely on manual masks or text prompts, making precise removal difficult for non-expert users in complex scenes and often leading to incomplete removal or unnatural background completion. To address this issue, we present ClickRemoval, an open-source interactive object removal tool built on pretrained Stable Diffusion models and driven solely by user clicks. Without additional training, hand-drawn masks, or text descriptions, ClickRemoval localizes target objects and restores the background through self-attention modulation during denoising. Experiments show that ClickRemoval achieves competitive results across quantitative metrics and user studies. We release a complete software package at https://github.com/zld-make/ClickRemoval under the Apache-2.0 license.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.14461,
  title  = {ClickRemoval: An Interactive Open-Source Tool for Object Removal in Diffusion Models},
  author = {Ledun Zhang and Yatu Ji and Xufei Zhuang and Xinying Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14461},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures. Open-source software paper