From RGB Generation to Dense Field Readout: Pixel-Space Dense Prediction with Text-to-Image Models

Large-scale text-to-image models are attractive backbones for dense prediction because RGB generation pretraining learns rich semantic, structural, and geometric priors. Existing generative and editing approaches reuse these priors by casting dense prediction as target generation: annotations such as depth, normals, alpha mattes, masks, and heatmaps are encoded into an RGB-trained VAE latent space and decoded back as image-like targets.

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• diffusion
• computer-vision
• fine-tuning
• benchmarks