Dual-Schedule Inversion: Training- and Tuning-Free Inversion for Real Image Editing

Jiancheng Huang, Yi Huang, Jianzhuang Liu, Donghao Zhou, Yifan Liu, Shifeng Chen; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 660-669

Text-conditional image editing is a practical AIGC task that has recently emerged with great commercial and academic value. For real image editing most diffusion model-based methods use DDIM Inversion as the first stage before editing. However DDIM Inversion often results in reconstruction failure leading to unsatisfactory performance for downstream editing. To address this problem we first analyze why the reconstruction via DDIM Inversion fails. We then propose a new inversion and sampling method named Dual-Schedule Inversion. We also design a classifier to adaptively combine Dual-Schedule Inversion with different editing methods for user-friendly image editing. Our work can achieve superior reconstruction and editing performance with the following advantages: 1) It can reconstruct real images perfectly without fine-tuning and its reversibility is guaranteed mathematically. 2) The edited object/scene conforms to the semantics of the text prompt. 3) The unedited parts of the object/scene retain the original identity.