MatReplace is a new reference‑free benchmark for evaluating material replacement in interior scenes, assessing edits on local material correctness, global lighting harmony, outside preservation, and inside structure. It offers three tracks that vary the conditioning signal—instruction only, instruction plus region mask, and material reference image—allowing systematic comparison of different editing approaches. Results show that while closed‑source editors excel at named‑material rendering, grounding materials from pixel references remains a significant challenge.
Material replacement is a common interior-design operation: changing the material of a selected surface while preserving its geometry, surroundings, and illumination. Despite its commercial relevance,...
arXiv:2608. 06075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Commercial vision-language models are reshaping computer vision, with visual priors broad enough to rival task-specific systems.
Commercial vision-language models are reshaping computer vision, with visual priors broad enough to rival task-specific systems. This raises a natural question: do they reduce the need for classic, physics-informed low-level vision?
arXiv:2607. 22705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object-centric learning aims to represent scenes as objects whose properties can be reused in new combinations.
arXiv:2606. 00188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While current multimodal models are proficient at open-ended visual editing, executing precise single-answer edits remains an important obstacle.
ReDeck introduces a step‑level render‑grounded refinement framework for document‑to‑slide generation, breaking slide revision into atomic edit actions with immediate renderer‑derived observations. It employs multi‑granular feedback—step‑level spatial checks, turn‑level adaptive critique, and a submission‑level layout gate—to balance local repair with overall quality. The authors also present DeckQuiz, a benchmark that separates content fidelity, spatial correctness, and design quality, and demonstrate ReDeck’s superior performance across GPT‑5.4, Claude‑4.6, and Gemini‑3.1.
arXiv:2608.21229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omnimodal generation is central to a wide range of content creation and editing applications. In-context conditioning is essential to this paradigm. It...
ReFigBench is a benchmark that evaluates how well multimodal coding agents can transform scientific overview figures into editable PowerPoint slides, preserving text, layout, and document structure. The study uses 1,000 real figures from arXiv, testing agents from four model families across two workflows—direct code generation and a specialized PPTX workflow—within ten different harness configurations. Evaluation combines deterministic artifact checks, automated scoring by judges, and blinded human comparisons, revealing that workflow and harness choices significantly affect reconstruction quality and that even the best agents fall short of the ideal rubric.
arXiv:2608. 16765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite recent advances in unified multimodal models for multi-reference image generation, existing benchmarks remain organized around predefined task types (e.
arXiv:2609.14899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural 3D scene editing is often evaluated by semantic alignment alone, although a convincing result may alter unrelated content or become inconsistent...
Semantically Aligned Gradient-Driven Context-Preserving Image Editing (IABEdit) is a model‑agnostic framework that embeds differentiable semantic verification into the training of generative image editors. By using a frozen vision‑language model to extract spatially‑aware descriptors from ground‑truth edits and a trainable aligner to reproduce them from generated outputs, the residual becomes a gradient that teaches the generator both what to edit and where, without adding inference‑time VLM cost. IABEdit is compatible with various backbones (e.g., U‑Net in Stable Diffusion and MMDiT in FLUX) and improves structural fidelity on MagicBrush, achieves state‑of‑the‑art instruction adherence on RealEdit and EMU Edit, and outperforms the proprietary Gemini agent on the D‑LORD surveillance benchmark under heavy occlusion. "whyItMatters":"IABEdit demonstrates that incorporating semantic verification during training can produce more accurate, well‑localized edits and outperform existing methods even in challenging surveillance scenarios, as shown by its superior metrics and human/GPT‑4o evaluations."
RefineEdit is a training‑free prompt‑to‑prompt image editing framework that uses a Generative Refinement Network to edit images by refining binary image codes. It couples edit localization with content generation, selecting editable positions based on signed probability differences between an editing branch and a source branch, and stabilizes edits with adaptive spatial freezing and finite bit locking. The method requires no additional training, external masks, or attention control, and outperforms other methods on PIE‑Bench in background‑preservation metrics and CLIP scores.