Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regions

Yuanze Lin, Yi-Wen Chen, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Lu Jiang, Ming-Hsuan Yang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 7059-7068

Language has emerged as a natural interface for image editing. In this paper we introduce a method for region-based image editing driven by textual prompts without the need for user-provided masks or sketches. Specifically our approach leverages an existing pre-trained text-to-image model and introduces a bounding box generator to identify the editing regions that are aligned with the textual prompts. We show that this simple approach enables flexible editing that is compatible with current image generation models and is able to handle complex prompts featuring multiple objects complex sentences or lengthy paragraphs. We conduct an extensive user study to compare our method against state-of-the-art methods. The experiments demonstrate the competitive performance of our method in manipulating images with high fidelity and realism that correspond to the provided language descriptions. Our project webpage can be found at: https://yuanzelin.me/LearnableRegions_page.