A Benchmark and Baseline for Language-Driven Image Editing

Jing Shi, Ning Xu, Trung Bui, Franck Dernoncourt, Zheng Wen, Chenliang Xu; Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2020

Language-driven image editing can significantly save the laborious image editing work and be friendly to the photography novice. However, most similar work can only deal with a specific image domain or can only do global retouching. To solve this new task, we first present a new language-driven image editing dataset that supports both local and global editing with editing operation and mask annotations. Besides, we also propose a baseline method that fully utilizes the annotation to solve this problem. Our new method treats each editing operation as a sub-module and can automatically predict operation parameters. Not only performing well on challenging user data, but such an approach is also highly interpretable. We believe our work, including both the benchmark and the baseline, will advance the image editing area towards a more general and free-form level.