Dense matching can track identity beyond physical continuity

FreeMatching combines generative and semantic representations with varied supervision to match image regions across edits, pose changes and conventional vision tasks.

Chinese Tech
Luping Liu · Bingyi Kang · Yifan Wang · Dong Xu

The University of Hong Kong · ByteDance Seed · Zhejiang University

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FreeMatching draws on representations from FLUX2-4B, a generative foundation model, and DINOv3, a semantic vision model.

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FreeMatching learns identity-preserving dense correspondence across image editing and generation tasks by combining foundation representations, heterogeneous supervision, and teacher-guided refinement.

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