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PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-10 v1

Abstract

Despite strong single-turn performance, diffusion-based image compositing often struggles to preserve coherent spatial relations in pairwise or sequential edits, where subsequent insertions may overwrite previously generated content and disrupt physical consistency. We introduce PICS, a self-supervised composition-by-decomposition paradigm that composes objects in parallel while explicitly modeling the compositional interactions among (fully-/partially-)visible objects and background. At its core, an Interaction Transformer employs mask-guided Mixture-of-Experts to route background, exclusive, and overlap regions to dedicated experts, with an adaptive {\alpha}-blending strategy that infers a compatibility-aware fusion of overlapping objects while preserving boundary fidelity. To further enhance robustness to geometric variations, we incorporate geometry-aware augmentations covering both out-of-plane and in-plane pose changes of objects. Our method delivers superior pairwise compositing quality and substantially improved stability, with extensive evaluations across virtual try-on, indoor, and street scene settings showing consistent gains over state-of-the-art baselines. Code and data are available at https://github.com/RyanHangZhou/PICS

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@article{arxiv.2603.06873,
  title  = {PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions},
  author = {Hang Zhou and Xinxin Zuo and Sen Wang and Li Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06873},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

ICLR 2026. Project page: https://ryanhangzhou.github.io/pics/ , code: https://github.com/RyanHangZhou/PICS

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