Paint-Anything introduces a unified hex-prompt interface that allows users to specify any 24‑bit hex color for both image generation and editing. The method trains on a new Paint‑500K dataset created from real images with object grounding, perceptual color labeling, and editing‑pair synthesis, and supplements this with pure‑color anchors to address shadow‑induced color inaccuracies. Evaluated on the newly proposed Any Color Benchmark (ACBench), Paint‑Anything achieves significant improvements over the base FLUX.2‑4B model, boosting T2I and editing scores by 85.3 % and 28.3 % respectively, and outperforms competing methods on the CompColor metric.
By Ji Xie, Dewei Zhou, Xinyu Huang, Zhennan Chen, Xun Wang
arXiv:2609.21169v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Independent control of tonescale regions (e.g., shadows, highlights) is essential for painters, photographers and cinematographers to bring 2D images...
By Trevor D. Canham, Abhijith Punnappurath, Michael S. Brown
Personalized image enhancement should reflect individual aesthetic taste, yet learning such preferences commonly depends on private photos and ratings that are unsuitable for centralized collection. The task must infer preference from sparse, heterogeneous feedback and translate it into natural-looking color transformations on resource-constrained user devices.
The paper introduces "overpainting," a localized, context-aware image editing technique that allows users to specify precise or loose editing regions via a trimap. The method adapts a pretrained diffusion model with joint attention and low‑rank adaptation, incorporating attention‑dropout to balance noise, source, and mask inputs. An automated pipeline generates training data by pairing images from language‑based editing models, curating them, and extracting trimaps, enabling the model to perform a wide range of editing tasks.
By Sam Sartor, Iliyan Georgiev, Michael Fischer, Valentin Deschaintre, Pieter Peers
The demand for image manipulation has seen a significant increase recently. Traditional tools like Photoshop and Capture One, while powerful, require considerable expertise to use effectively.
arXiv:2608. 10798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most image colorization systems operate in $Lab$ space by predicting chroma ($ab$) while preserving an input-derived luminance channel ($L$).
By Swarnim Maheshwari, Syed Imam Ali, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian
arXiv:2606. 01213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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.
By Aishwarya Agrawal, Roy Hirsch, Yasumasa Onoe, Sherry Ben, Jason Baldridge
SenseNova-U1.5 is an 8B‑MoT native unified multimodal model that can understand, reason about, and generate visual content without using an encoder or VAE. It improves visual fidelity and text rendering through spatially coherent patch reconstruction, large‑scale training on curated generation and editing data, and native resolutions up to 4K. Post‑training, specialized experts for visual aesthetics, bilingual text rendering, infographic generation, and image editing are optimized and distilled into a multi‑expert framework, yielding advances in image fidelity, complex composition, multi‑reference editing, and instruction following.
By Haiwen Diao, Jiahao Wang, Chenjing Ding, Hanming Deng, Jiangnan Chen, Ruixi Zhang, Ruohui Wang, Wenwen Tong, Xiangyu Fan, Yubo Wang, Yue Zhu, Yuwei Niu, Zhengqi Bai, Zhiqian Lin, Zhitao Yang, Zhongang Cai, Bo Yang, Chen Feng, Chengguang Lv, Guangjia Liu, Guanlin Wang, Hanyu Zhang, Haojia Yu, Hongcan Xiao, Hongli Wang, Huan Wu, Huaping Zhong, Jian Fang, Jianan Fan, Jiaqi Li, Jiefan Lu, Jing Zuo, Jingcheng Ni, Junxiang Xu, Linjun Dai, Mutian Xu, Peishen Yan, Penghao Wu, Ruijie Mao, Ruisi Wang, Shihao Bai, Shuang Yang, Shuya Yang, Shuyan Zheng, Silei Wu, Siying Li, Tao Chu, Tianbo Zhong, Tongxi Zhou, Weichao Luo, Weichen Fan, Wenhao Jia, Wenjie Gao, Xiangli Kong, Yan Li, Yang Yong, Zimo Wen, Zixuan Qian, Wenxiu Sun, Ruihao Gong, Quan Wang, Lewei Lu, Lei Yang, Ziwei Liu, Dahua Lin
PrismGPT is a Vision‑Language Model that generates structured, region‑aware photo‑editing plans from a single image, without relying on commercial black‑box tools. It learns to diagnose aesthetic issues globally and locally while predicting precise editing parameters, using proxy‑guided learning with operation decomposition and region‑aware aesthetic ranking to bootstrap the model. A competence‑based dynamic scheduler shifts training focus from proxy tasks to the main editing task as skills improve, and all reasoning traces for fine‑tuning are self‑synthesized by the model itself. Experiments on MIT‑Adobe FiveK and a new professionally retouched benchmark, SPIRE, show PrismGPT achieves state‑of‑the‑art results using only about 6% of the training data required by previous methods.
By Ke Zhao, Hue Nguyen, Abhijith Punnappurath, Zhongling Wang, Iqbal Mohomed, Michael S. Brown
arXiv:2608.29925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Controllable image relighting is an important problem in image editing, and hand-drawn scribbles provide an intuitive interface for specifying the desi...
By Xuanpu Zhang, Xuesong Niu, Haoxiang Cao, Ruidong Chen, Jianhao Zeng, Changqian Yu
arXiv:2510. 08532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction-based image editing offers a powerful and intuitive way to manipulate images through natural language.
By Rishubh Parihar, Or Patashnik, Daniil Ostashev, R. Venkatesh Babu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Kuan-Chieh Wang
arXiv:2509. 24900v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of unified multimodal models for image generation and editing is fundamentally constrained by the quality and comprehensiveness of their training data.
By Zhihong Chen, Xuehai Bai, Yang Shi, Chaoyou Fu, Huanyu Zhang, Haotian Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Yi-Fan Zhang