NeurIPS 2024poster2 citations

UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale

Haozhe Zhao, Xiaojian Ma, Liang Chen, Shuzheng Si, Rujie Wu, Kaikai An, Peiyu Yu, Minjia Zhang

Abstract

This paper presents UltraEdit, a large-scale (~ 4M editing samples), automatically generated dataset for instruction-based image editing. Our key idea is to address the drawbacks in existing image editing datasets like InstructPix2Pix and MagicBrush, and provide a *systematic* approach to producing massive and high-quality image editing samples: 1) UltraEdit includes more diverse editing instructions by combining LLM creativity and in-context editing examples by human raters; 2) UltraEdit is anchored on real images (photographs or artworks), which offers more diversity and less biases than those purely synthesized by text-to-image models; 3) UltraEdit supports region-based editing with high-quality, automatically produced region annotations. Our experiments show that canonical diffusion-based editing baselines trained on UltraEdit set new records on challenging MagicBrush and Emu-Edit benchmarks, respectively. Our analysis further confirms the crucial role of real image anchors and region-based editing data. The dataset, code, and models will be made public.

image editingtext-to-imageinstruction-based image editingregion-based image editing
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
zhao2024ultraedit,
title={UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale},
author={Haozhe Zhao and Xiaojian Ma and Liang Chen and Shuzheng Si and Rujie Wu and Kaikai An and Peiyu Yu and Minjia Zhang and Qing Li and Baobao Chang},
booktitle={The Thirty-eight Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=9ZDdlgH6O8}
}