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Hands-off Image Editing: Language-guided Editing without any Task-specific Labeling, Masking or even Training

Rodrigo Santos, António Branco, João Ricardo Silva, Joao Rodrigues

Abstract

Instruction-guided image editing consists in taking an image and an instruction and delivering that image altered according to that instruction. State-of-the-art approaches to this task suffer from the typical scaling up and domain adaptation hindrances related to supervision as they eventually resort to some kind of task-specific labelling, masking or training. We propose a novel approach that does without any such task-specific supervision and offers thus a better potential for improvement. Its assessment demonstrates that it is highly effective, achieving very competitive performance.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{santos-etal-2025-hands,
    title = "Hands-off Image Editing: Language-guided Editing without any Task-specific Labeling, Masking or even Training",
    author = "Santos, Rodrigo  and
      Branco, Ant{\'o}nio  and
      Silva, Jo{\~a}o Ricardo  and
      Rodrigues, Joao",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.640/",
    pages = "9546--9565"
}