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Nanxuan Zhao

33 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Simple Edits: X-Planner for Complex Instruction-Based Image Editing

AAAI 2026technical

Recent diffusion-based image editing methods have made great strides in text-guided tasks but often struggle with complex, indirect instructions. Additionally, current models frequently exhibit poor identity preservation, unintended edits, or rely on manual masks. To overcome these limitations, we i

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2026

DuetSVG: Unified Multimodal SVG Generation with Internal Visual Guidance

CVPR 2026

Recent vision-language model (VLM)-based approaches have achieved impressive results on SVG generation. However, because they generate only text and lack visual signals during decoding, they often struggle with complex semantics and fail to produce visually appealing or geometrically coherent SVGs.

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning

ICLR 2026oral

Recent advances in foundation models highlight a clear trend toward unification and scaling, showing emergent capabilities across diverse domains. While image generation and editing have rapidly transitioned from task-specific to unified frameworks, video generation and editing remain fragmented due…

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2026

Illustrator's Depth: Monocular Layer Index Prediction for Image Decomposition

CVPR 2026

We introduce Illustrator's Depth, a novel definition of depth that addresses a key challenge in digital content creation: decomposing flat images into editable, ordered layers. Inspired by an artist's compositional process, illustrator's depth infers a layer index for each pixel, forming an interpre

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2026

Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs

ICLR 2026poster

Recent image editing models have achieved impressive results while following natural language editing instructions, but they rely on supervised fine-tuning with large datasets of input-target pairs. This is a critical bottleneck, as such naturally occurring pairs are hard to curate at scale. Curren…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

SemLayer: Semantic-aware Generative Segmentation and Layer Construction for Abstract Icons

CVPR 2026

Graphic icons are a cornerstone of modern design workflows, yet they are often distributed as flattened single-path or compound-path graphics, where the original semantic layering is lost. This absence of semantic decomposition hinders downstream tasks such as editing, restyling, and animation. We f

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Bézier Splatting for Fast and Differentiable Vector Graphics Rendering

NeurIPS 2025poster

Differentiable vector graphics (VGs) are widely used in image vectorization and vector synthesis, while existing representations are costly to optimize and struggle to achieve high-quality rendering results for high-resolution images. This work introduces a new differentiable VG representation, dubb…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Comprehensive Relighting: Generalizable and Consistent Monocular Human Relighting and Harmonization

CVPR 2025poster

This paper introduces Comprehensive Relighting, the first all-in-one approach that can both control and harmonize the lighting from an image or video of humans with arbitrary body parts from any scene. Building such a generalizable model is extremely challenging due to the lack of dataset, restricti…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

EmotiCrafter: Text-to-Emotional-Image Generation based on Valence-Arousal Model

ICCV 2025poster

Recent research shows that emotions can enhance users' cognition and influence information communication. While research on visual emotion analysis is extensive, limited work has been done on helping users generate emotionally rich image content. Existing work on emotional image generation relies on…

2025

Rethinking Layered Graphic Design Generation with a Top-Down Approach

ICCV 2025poster

Graphic design is crucial for conveying ideas and messages. Designers usually organize their work into objects, backgrounds, and vectorized text layers to simplify editing. However, this workflow demands considerable expertise. With the rise of GenAI methods, an endless supply of high-quality graphi…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics

CVPR 2025highlight

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while capturing visual variations. Inspired by recent video generation…

2024

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

CVPR 2024poster

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…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2024

GS-LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for 3D Gaussian Splatting

ECCV 2024poster

"We propose , a scalable large reconstruction model that can predict high-quality 3D Gaussian primitives from 2-4 posed sparse images in ∼0.23 seconds on single A100 GPU. Our model features a very simple transformer-based architecture; we patchify input posed images, pass the concatenated multi-view…

2024

Localizing and Editing Knowledge In Text-to-Image Generative Models

ICLR 2024poster

Text-to-Image Diffusion Models such as Stable-Diffusion and Imagen have achieved unprecedented quality of photorealism with state-of-the-art FID scores on MS-COCO and other generation benchmarks. Given a caption, image generation requires fine-grained knowledge about attributes such as object struct…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2024

NIVeL: Neural Implicit Vector Layers for Text-to-Vector Generation

CVPR 2024poster

The success of denoising diffusion models in representing rich data distributions over 2D raster images has prompted research on extending them to other data representations such as vector graphics. Unfortunately due to their variable structure and scarcity of vector training data directly applying…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

On Mechanistic Knowledge Localization in Text-to-Image Generative Models

ICML 2024poster

Identifying layers within text-to-image models which control visual attributes can facilitate efficient model editing through closed-form updates. Recent work, leveraging causal tracing show that early Stable-Diffusion variants confine knowledge primarily to the first layer of the CLIP text-encoder,…

2024

SwapAnything: Enabling Arbitrary Object Swapping in Personalized Image Editing

ECCV 2024poster

"Effective editing of personal content holds a pivotal role in enabling individuals to express their creativity, weaving captivating narratives within their visual stories, and elevate the overall quality and impact of their visual content. Therefore, in this work, we introduce , a novel framework t…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

Text2City: One-Stage Text-Driven Urban Layout Regeneration

AAAI 2024technical

Regenerating urban layout is an essential process for urban regeneration. In this paper, we propose a new task called text-driven urban layout regeneration, which provides an intuitive input modal - text - for users to specify the regeneration, instead of designing complex rules. Given the target re…

2024

Visual Layout Composer: Image-Vector Dual Diffusion Model for Design Layout Generation

CVPR 2024poster

This paper proposes an image-vector dual diffusion model for generative layout design. Distinct from prior efforts that mostly ignore element-level visual information our approach integrates the power of a pre-trained large image diffusion model to guide layout composition in a vector diffusion mode…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2023

AssetField: Assets Mining and Reconfiguration in Ground Feature Plane Representation

ICCV 2023poster

Both indoor and outdoor environments are inherently structured and repetitive. Traditional modeling pipelines keep an asset library storing unique object templates, which is both versatile and memory efficient in practice. Inspired by this observation, we propose AssetField, a novel neural scene rep…

Cited by 12PDFScholar
2023

Grid-Guided Neural Radiance Fields for Large Urban Scenes

CVPR 2023poster

Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt multiple sub-NeRFs to model each region individually, leadin…

Cited by 94SourcePDFScholar
2023

PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images

NeurIPS 2023poster

In an era where images and visual content dominate our digital landscape, the ability to manipulate and personalize these images has become a necessity. Envision seamlessly substituting a tabby cat lounging on a sunlit window sill in a photograph with your own playful puppy, all while preserving the…

Cited by 36SourcePDFScholar
2022

BungeeNeRF: Progressive Neural Radiance Field for Extreme Multi-Scale Scene Rendering

ECCV 2022poster

"Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has achieved outstanding performance in modeling 3D objects and controlled scenes, usually under a single scale. In this work, we focus on multi-scale cases where large changes in imagery are observed at drastically different scales. This scenario vastly exists in the r…

Cited by 267SourcePDFScholar
2022

TransRank: Self-Supervised Video Representation Learning via Ranking-Based Transformation Recognition

CVPR 2022oral

Recognizing transformation types applied to a video clip (RecogTrans) is a long-established paradigm for self-supervised video representation learning, which achieves much inferior performance compared to instance discrimination approaches (InstDisc) in recent works. However, based on a thorough com…

Cited by 30PDFcodeScholar
2021

BlockPlanner: City Block Generation With Vectorized Graph Representation

ICCV 2021poster

City modeling is the foundation for computational urban planning, navigation, and entertainment. In this work, we present the first generative model of city blocks named BlockPlanner, and showcase its ability to synthesize valid city blocks with varying land lots configurations. We propose a novel v…

Cited by 22PDFScholar
2021

Delving Deep Into Many-to-Many Attention for Few-Shot Video Object Segmentation

CVPR 2021poster

This paper tackles the task of Few-Shot Video Object Segmentation (FSVOS), i.e., segmenting objects in the query videos with certain class specified in a few labeled support images. The key is to model the relationship between the query videos and the support images for propagating the object inform…

Cited by 25PDFcodeScholar
2021

Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning

AAAI 2021technical

Recent progress in contrastive learning has revolutionized unsupervised representation learning. Concretely, multiple views (augmentations) from the same image are encouraged to map to close embeddings, while views from different images are pulled apart.In this paper, through visualizing a…

Cited by 58SourcePDFScholar
2021

Learning Skeletal Graph Neural Networks for Hard 3D Pose Estimation

ICCV 2021poster

Various deep learning techniques have been proposed to solve the single-view 2D-to-3D pose estimation problem. While the average prediction accuracy has been improved significantly over the years, the performance on hard poses with depth ambiguity, self-occlusion, and complex or rare poses is still…

Cited by 163PDFScholar
2021

What Makes Instance Discrimination Good for Transfer Learning?

ICLR 2021poster

Contrastive visual pretraining based on the instance discrimination pretext task has made significant progress. Notably, recent work on unsupervised pretraining has shown to surpass the supervised counterpart for finetuning downstream applications such as object detection and segmentation. It come…

Cited by 201SourcePDFScholar
2020

How Much Time Do You Have? Modeling Multi-Duration Saliency

CVPR 2020poster

What jumps out in a single glance of an image is different than what you might notice after closer inspection. Yet conventional models of visual saliency produce predictions at an arbitrary, fixed viewing duration, offering a limited view of the rich interactions between image content and gaze locat…

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