@article{jung-etal-2025-overcoming,
    title = "Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing",
    author = "Jung, Yeonjoon  and
      Choi, Seungtaek  and
      Hwang, Seung-won",
    journal = "Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    volume = "13",
    year = "2025",
    address = "Cambridge, MA",
    publisher = "MIT Press",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-opsupmap-display/2025.tacl-1.54/",
    doi = "10.1162/tacl.a.34",
    pages = "1171--1185",
    abstract = "Recent diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text-to-image generation. However, their stochastic denoising process often causes semantic image editing (SIE) models to misapply textual instructions. That is, models often leave the source object unchanged or erroneously alter the background. We refer to this challenge as source object grounding. To address this challenge, we introduce R-SIE, a region-wise SIE framework. During the inference, R-SIE models noise separately for distinct image regions, enabling precise control over the transformed areas. To reinforce the inference, we devise an automatic pipeline leveraging bounding boxes to generate unambiguous training data. Additionally, we propose two region-focused metrics, CLIP-Region Class (CLIP-RC) and CLIP-Global Context (CLIP-GC), to independently assess how well the source object is edited and the background is preserved, respectively. Experimental results demonstrate that region-wise diffusion improves existing baselines, and our data generation pipeline further enhances these improvements.1"
}