Diff-Plugin: Revitalizing Details for Diffusion-based Low-level Tasks

Yuhao Liu, Zhanghan Ke, Fang Liu, Nanxuan Zhao, Rynson W.H. Lau; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 4197-4208

Diffusion models trained on large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis. However due to the randomness in the diffusion process they often struggle with handling diverse low-level tasks that require details preservation. To overcome this limitation we present a new Diff-Plugin framework to enable a single pre-trained diffusion model to generate high-fidelity results across a variety of low-level tasks. Specifically we first propose a lightweight Task-Plugin module with a dual branch design to provide task-specific priors guiding the diffusion process in preserving image content. We then propose a Plugin-Selector that can automatically select different Task-Plugins based on the text instruction allowing users to edit images by indicating multiple low-level tasks with natural language. We conduct extensive experiments on 8 low-level vision tasks. The results demonstrate the superiority of Diff-Plugin over existing methods particularly in real-world scenarios. Our ablations further validate that Diff-Plugin is stable schedulable and supports robust training across different dataset sizes.