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Layered image generation and editing is a fundamental capability that enables layer-wise reuse, editing, and composition of generated visual content, analogous to word-level editing in natural language. Despite its importance, this remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhicong Tang , Zhao Zhang , Jingye Chen , Mohan Zhou , Yifan Pu , Yuchi Liu , Yalong Bai , Ethan Smith , Yuhui Yuan

As generative models expand the possibilities of visual content creation, layered image synthesis has emerged as a promising direction for controllable and creative editing. However, existing methods struggle to fully realize this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kyoungkook Kang , Gyujin Sim , Sunghyun Cho

This paper investigates a novel problem of generating images from visual attributes. We model the image as a composite of foreground and background and develop a layered generative model with disentangled latent variables that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Xinchen Yan , Jimei Yang , Kihyuk Sohn , Honglak Lee

Diffusion models have enabled high-quality, conditional image editing capabilities. We propose to expand their arsenal, and demonstrate that off-the-shelf diffusion models can be used for a wide range of cross-domain compositing tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Roy Hachnochi , Mingrui Zhao , Nadav Orzech , Rinon Gal , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit Haim Bermano

Designers craft and edit graphic designs in a layer representation, but layer-based editing becomes impossible once composited into a raster image. In this work, we propose LayerD, a method to decompose raster graphic designs into layers…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tomoyuki Suzuki , Kang-Jun Liu , Naoto Inoue , Kota Yamaguchi

Recently, how to achieve precise image editing has attracted increasing attention, especially given the remarkable success of text-to-image generation models. To unify various spatial-aware image editing abilities into one framework, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yueru Jia , Yuhui Yuan , Aosong Cheng , Chuke Wang , Ji Li , Huizhu Jia , Shanghang Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuwei Sun , Yuxuan Yao , Hui Li , Siyu Zhu

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu

This paper introduces an innovative approach for image matting that redefines the traditional regression-based task as a generative modeling challenge. Our method harnesses the capabilities of latent diffusion models, enriched with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhixiang Wang , Baiang Li , Jian Wang , Yu-Lun Liu , Jinwei Gu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Recent advances in generative modeling, namely Diffusion models, have revolutionized generative modeling, enabling high-quality image generation tailored to user needs. This paper proposes a framework for the generative design of structural…

Image harmonization, which involves adjusting the foreground of a composite image to attain a unified visual consistency with the background, can be conceptualized as an image-to-image translation task. Diffusion models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Pengfei Zhou , Fangxiang Feng , Xiaojie Wang

Image generation models trained on large datasets can synthesize high-quality images but often produce spatially inconsistent and distorted images due to limited information about the underlying structures and spatial layouts. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hyundo Lee , Suhyung Choi , Inwoo Hwang , Byoung-Tak Zhang

We propose LayerSync, a domain-agnostic approach for improving the generation quality and the training efficiency of diffusion models. Prior studies have highlighted the connection between the quality of generation and the representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yasaman Haghighi , Bastien van Delft , Mariam Hassan , Alexandre Alahi

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

In this age of information, images are a critical medium for storing and transmitting information. With the rapid growth of image data amount, visual compression and visual data perception are two important research topics attracting a lot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yuefeng Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Jiannhui Chang , Siwei Ma

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra