Redistributing editing strength helps one-step image editors preserve unchanged regions

ER-Chord uses agreement between existing editing estimates to reallocate a fixed update budget, improving reported source preservation without additional denoiser calls.

Chinese Tech
Peize Li · Hanzhen Zhao · Xingguo Xu · Yilong Fan · Zhen Tao · Bo Yin · +3 more

National University of Singapore · Kuaishou Technology · Dalian University of Technology · Tianjin University · Harbin Institute of Technology

Research Digest··3 min read
Li and colleagues propose ER-Chord, a method for reducing unintended changes during fast, text-guided image editing.

ER-Chord builds on ChordEdit, which combines editing fields estimated at neighboring noise levels.

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