SR-Edit: Region-Aware Image Editing via Self-Refinement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02504v1
• Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:08:23 GMT
• Title: SR-Edit: Region-Aware Image Editing via Self-Refinement
• Abstract summary: SR-Edit is an image editing framework that overcomes issues via iterative self-refinement.<n>We show that SR-Edit achieves superior preservation and overall image quality compared to existing editing techniques.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the recent rapid progress in generative models, image editing has made remarkable advances, yet achieving faithful edits that precisely modify only the target regions while strictly preserving all other regions remains challenging. Since externally provided region annotations are often difficult to obtain in practice, a growing body of work seeks to improve preservation by automatically inferring edit and non-edit regions, and then enforcing consistency on the latter. However, these approaches still suffer from inaccurate region estimation and heuristic correction strategies that distort the native inference process, making methods designed for fidelity themselves a new source of artifacts. We propose SR-Edit, an image editing framework that overcomes these issues via iterative self-refinement. Specifically, at each iteration, SR-Edit first (i) extracts progressively precise and self-consistent region separation from the model's own predictions by lightweight post-processing, and then (ii) enforces preservation in non-edit areas through correction updates that remain aligned with the original sampling dynamics. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SR-Edit achieves superior preservation and overall image quality compared to existing editing techniques.

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