Describe, Don't Dictate: Semantic Image Editing with Natural Language Intent

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20505v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:45:08 GMT
• Title: Describe, Don't Dictate: Semantic Image Editing with Natural Language Intent
• Authors: En Ci, Shanyan Guan, Yanhao Ge, Yilin Zhang, Wei Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Jian Yang, Ying Tai,
• Abstract summary: We propose a descriptive-prompt-based editing framework, named DescriptiveEdit.<n>The core idea is to re-frame instruction-based image editing' as reference-image-based text-to-image generation'
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Despite the progress in text-to-image generation, semantic image editing remains a challenge. Inversion-based algorithms unavoidably introduce reconstruction errors, while instruction-based models mainly suffer from limited dataset quality and scale. To address these problems, we propose a descriptive-prompt-based editing framework, named DescriptiveEdit. The core idea is to re-frame `instruction-based image editing' as `reference-image-based text-to-image generation', which preserves the generative power of well-trained Text-to-Image models without architectural modifications or inversion. Specifically, taking the reference image and a prompt as input, we introduce a Cross-Attentive UNet, which newly adds attention bridges to inject reference image features into the prompt-to-edit-image generation process. Owing to its text-to-image nature, DescriptiveEdit overcomes limitations in instruction dataset quality, integrates seamlessly with ControlNet, IP-Adapter, and other extensions, and is more scalable. Experiments on the Emu Edit benchmark show it improves editing accuracy and consistency.

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