CVPR 2026 Papers

Recent advancements in diffusion-based image editing pose a significant threat to the authenticity of digital visual content. Traditional embedding-based watermarking methods often introduce perceptible perturbations to maintain robustness, inevitably compromising visual fidelity. Meanwhile, existing zero-watermarking approaches, typically relying on global image features, struggle to withstand sophisticated manipulations. In this work, we uncover a key observation: while individual image patches undergo substantial alterations during AI-based editing, the relational distance between patch pairs remains relatively invariant. Leveraging this property, we propose Relational Zero-Watermarking (Rel-Zero), a novel framework that requires no modification to the original image but derives a unique zero-watermark from these editing-invariant patch relations. By grounding the watermark in intrinsic structural consistency rather than absolute appearance, Rel-Zero provides a non-invasive yet resilient mechanism for content authentication. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Rel-Zero achieves substantially improved robustness across diverse editing models and manipulations compared to prior zero-watermarking approaches.

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various multimodal tasks by leveraging the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, processing visually complex and information-rich images, such as infographics or document layouts, requires these models to generate a large number of visual tokens, leading to significant computational overhead. To address this, we propose PinPoint, a novel two-stage framework that first identifies instruction-relevant image regions and then refines them to extract fine-grained visual features for improved reasoning and efficiency. Central to our approach is the Instruction-Region Alignment, which localizes relevant regions using both visual input and textual instructions. We further introduce new annotations that provide richer ground-truth supervision for instruction-relevant regions across challenging VQA benchmarks: InfographicVQA, MultiPageDocVQA, and SinglePageDocVQA. Experimental results show that PinPoint not only achieves superior accuracy compared to existing methods but also reduces computational overhead by minimizing irrelevant visual tokens.

Editing a 3D indoor scene from natural language is conceptually straightforward but technically challenging. Existing open-vocabulary systems often regenerate large portions of a scene or rely on image-space edits that disrupt spatial structure, resulting in unintended global changes or physically inconsistent layouts. These limitations stem from treating editing primarily as a generative task.We take a different view. A user instruction defines a desired world state, and editing should be the minimal sequence of actions that makes this state true while preserving everything else. This perspective motivates Edit-As-Act, a framework that performs open-vocabulary scene editing as goal-regressive planning in 3D space.Given a source scene and free-form instruction, Edit-As-Act predicts symbolic goal predicates and plans in EditLang, a PDDL-inspired action language that we design with explicit preconditions and effects encoding support, contact, collision, and other geometric relations. A language-driven planner proposes actions, and a validator enforces goal-directedness, monotonicity, and physical feasibility, producing interpretable and physically coherent transformations.By separating reasoning from low-level generation, Edit-As-Act achieves instruction fidelity, semantic consistency, and physical plausibility--three criteria that existing paradigms cannot satisfy together. On E2A-Bench, our benchmark of 63 editing tasks across 9 indoor environments, Edit-As-Act significantly outperforms prior approaches across all edit types and scene categories.

Unregistered hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution (SR) typically aims to enhance a low-resolution HSI using an unregistered high-resolution reference image. In this paper, we propose an unmixing-based fusion framework that decouples spatial-spectral information to simultaneously mitigate the impact of unregistered fusion and enhance the learnability of SR models. Specifically, we first utilize singular value decomposition for initial spectral unmixing, preserving the original endmembers while dedicating the subsequent network to enhancing the initial abundance map. To leverage the spatial texture of the unregistered reference, we introduce a coarse-to-fine deformable aggregation module, which first estimates a pixel-level flow and a similarity map using a coarse pyramid predictor. It further performs fine sub-pixel refinement to achieve deformable aggregation of the reference features. The aggregative features are then refined via a series of spatial-channel abundance cross-attention blocks. Furthermore, a spatial-channel modulated fusion module is presented to merge encoder-decoder features using dynamic gating weights, yielding a high-quality, high-resolution HSI. Experimental results on simulated and real datasets confirm that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art super-resolution performance. The code will be available at https://github.com/yingkai-zhang/UAFL.

Instruction-based image editing with diffusion models has achieved impressive results, yet existing methods struggle with fine-grained instructions specifying precise attributes such as colors, positions, and quantities. While recent approaches employ Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for alignment, they optimize only at individual sampling steps, providing sparse feedback that limits trajectory-level control. We propose a unified framework **CogniEdit**, combining multi-modal reasoning with dense reward optimization that propagates gradients across consecutive denoising steps, enabling trajectory-level gradient flow through the sampling process. Our method comprises three components: (1) Multi-modal Large Language Models for decomposing complex instructions into actionable directives, (2) Dynamic Token Focus Relocation that adaptively emphasizes fine-grained attributes, and (3) Dense GRPO-based Optimization that propagates gradients across consecutive steps for trajectory-level supervision. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our CogniEdit achieves state-of-the-art performance in balancing fine-grained instruction following with visual quality and editability preservation. Our code is available at https://github.com/yl4467/CogniEdit.

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate images into physical components such as albedo, depth, normals, and illumination. While recent diffusion- and transformer-based models benefit from paired supervision from synthetic datasets, their generalization to diverse, real-world scenarios remains challenging. We propose ReasonX, a novel framework that leverages a multimodal large language model (MLLM) as a perceptual judge providing relative intrinsic comparisons, and uses these comparisons as GRPO rewards for fine-tuning intrinsic decomposition models on unlabeled, in-the-wild images. Unlike RL methods for generative models, our framework aligns conditional intrinsic predictors by rewarding agreement between the judge's relational assessments and analytically derived relations from the model's outputs. ReasonX is model-agnostic and can be applied to different intrinsic predictors. Across multiple base architectures and modalities, ReasonX yields significant improvements, including 9-25% WHDR reduction on IIW albedo and up to 46% depth accuracy gains on ETH3D, highlighting the promise of MLLM-guided comparative supervision to bridge low- and high-level vision reasoning.

Instruction-based image editing models have recently achieved impressive performance, enabling complex edits to an input image from a multi-instruction prompt. However, these models apply each instruction in the prompt with a fixed strength, limiting the user's ability to precisely and continuously control the intensity of individual edits. We introduce SliderEdit, a framework for continuous image editing with fine-grained, interpretable instruction control. Given a multi-part edit instruction, SliderEdit disentangles the individual instructions and exposes each as a globally trained slider, allowing smooth adjustment of its strength. Unlike prior works that introduced slider-based attribute controls in text-to-image generation, typically requiring separate training or fine-tuning for each attribute or concept, our method learns a single set of low-rank adaptation matrices that generalize across diverse edits, attributes, and compositional instructions. This enables continuous interpolation along individual edit dimensions while preserving both spatial locality and global semantic consistency. We apply SliderEdit to state-of-the-art editing models, including FLUX-Kontext and Qwen-Image-Edit, and observe substantial improvements in edit controllability, visual consistency, and user steerability. We are the first to explore and propose a framework for continuous, fine-grained instruction control in image editing models. Our results pave the way for interactive, instruction-driven image manipulation with continuous and compositional control.

Multimodal image synthesis has made significant progress, yet most editing methods still rely on textual instructions, which are less direct than visual guidance. Recently, a new paradigm edits one image using another as reference, enabling more intuitive manipulation through visual exemplars. We formalize this setting as cross-image editing, where a source image is modified under one or more visual references. We propose OrionEdit, a unified framework that regulates editing via symmetric orthogonal subspace disentanglement and reverse-causal attention with information-flow masks enforcing unidirectional latent dependencies. Built on standard diffusion backbones, OrionEdit enables zero-shot multi-reference editing and outperforms open-source baselines, approaching proprietary models in fidelity and disentanglement. The model is available at https://github.com/cityuhkai/OrionEdit.

RewardFlow is a zero-shot, training-free framework for text-guided image editing and generation based on reward-guided Langevin dynamics. We steer pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models at inference time using a diverse set of differentiable rewards, and control their influence with a prompt-aware adaptive policy that parses the text instruction, infers edit intent, and dynamically adjusts update steps. Our design includes a differentiable VQA-based reward for fine-grained semantic supervision and a SAM-guided reward for precise, localized edits with minimal leakage. Across standard image editing and compositional generation benchmarks, RewardFlow achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot edit fidelity and compositional alignment.

While Instruction-based Image Editing (IIE) has achieved significant progress, existing benchmarks pursue task breadth via mixed evaluations. This paradigm obscures a critical failure mode crucial in professional applications: the inconsistent performance of models across tasks of varying semantic scales. To address this gap, we introduce Omni IIE Bench, a high-quality, human-annotated benchmark specifically designed to diagnose the editing consistency of IIE models in practical application scenarios. Omni IIE Bench features an innovative dual-track diagnostic design: (1) Single-turn Consistency, comprising shared-context task pairs of attribute modification and entity replacement; and (2) Multi-turn Coordination, involving continuous dialogue tasks that traverse semantic scales. The benchmark is constructed via an exceptionally rigorous multi-stage human filtering process, incorporating a quality standard enforced by computer vision graduate students and an industry relevance review conducted by professional designers. We perform a comprehensive evaluation of 8 mainstream IIE models using Omni IIE Bench. Our analysis quantifies, for the first time, a prevalent performance gap: nearly all models exhibit a significant performance degradation when transitioning from low-semantic-scale to high-semantic-scale tasks. Omni IIE Bench provides critical diagnostic tools and insights for the development of next-generation, more reliable, and stable IIE models.

Recent advances in diffusion models and vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced the controllability of image editing. Methods like FlowEdit enable step-by-step editing along a visible, noise-free trajectory, where each intermediate result is a clear image, eliminating the need for full noise inversion. However, these approaches still operate in pixel space or VAE latent space, where intermediate outputs often suffer from visual artifacts, distortions, or unrealistic details--making reliable semantic evaluation difficult. Furthermore, they remain open-loop systems, applying static edits without feedback to guide or correct the editing process adaptively. We propose UniEdit-I, the first training-free, closed-loop image editing framework that operates entirely within the semantic latent space of a unified VLM by introducing an Understanding-Editing-Verifying (UEV) loop:(1) Understanding: parses the source image and editing instruction into a structured source prompt and a minimal target specification;(2) Editing: applies dynamic semantic offsets, with a configurable feedback weighting mechanism that adaptively modulates editing intensity based on real-time alignment feedback;(3) Verifying: leverages the VLM's own multimodal reasoning capability to evaluate the intermediate output along multiple semantic dimensions and trigger early stopping or refinement. By transforming the VLM from a post-hoc evaluator into an in-process conductor, UniEdit-I establishes the first semantics-driven, self-correcting closed-loop image editing pipeline. Evaluated on GEdit-Bench, UniEdit-I achieves state-of-the-art performance without any fine-tuning or architectural modifications, and even surpasses several large-scale pre-trained editors.

Training-free 3D editing aims to modify 3D shapes based on human instructions without model finetuning. It plays a crucial role in 3D content creation. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce strong or geometrically stable edits, largely due to inconsistent latent anchors introduced by timestep-dependent noise during diffusion sampling. To address these limitations, we introduce AnchorFlow, which is built upon the principle of latent anchor consistency. Specifically, AnchorFlow establishes a global latent anchor shared between the source and target trajectories, and enforces coherence using a relaxed anchor-alignment loss together with an anchor-aligned update rule. This design ensures that transformations remain stable and semantically faithful throughout the editing process. By stabilizing the latent reference space, AnchorFlow enables more pronounced semantic modifications. Moreover, AnchorFlow is mask-free. Without mask supervision, it effectively preserves geometric fidelity. Experiments on the Eval3DEdit benchmark show that AnchorFlow consistently delivers semantically aligned and structurally robust edits across diverse editing types. Project page: https://zhenglinzhou.github.io/AnchorFlow/.

Restoring degraded document image is essential for both improving visual quality and optimizing performance in downstream document analysis tasks. Although existing methods have demonstrated substantial improvements in restoration outcomes, they primarily address single-type degradation scenarios. Current approaches typically necessitate training multiple specialized models for specific degradation types or rely on explicit prior knowledge of degradation patterns to guide the training process. To overcome these limitations, we propose MMDIR, a multimodal instruction-driven framework designed for document image restoration under mixed and uncertain degradation conditions. By leveraging semantically structured instructions, MMDIR dynamically identifies present degradation types (blur, shadow, text watermark, and seal), while enhancing degradation-aware representation learning. Furthermore, we introduce a novel benchmark named MixedDoc comprising complex mixed degradations, where each image contains randomized combinations of the aforementioned types. This benchmark addresses a critical gap in existing datasets, which lack realistic multi-degradation samples and often overlook common obstructions such as seals and text watermarks. The effectiveness of our approach is thoroughly validated across both released public benchmarks and our newly proposed dataset. The dataset is available at https://github.com/xiaomore/MMDIR.

While Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a pivotal paradigm for text-to-image generation, its application to image editing remains largely unexplored. A key bottleneck is the lack of a robust general reward model for all editing tasks. Existing edit reward models usually give overall scores without detailed checks, ignoring different instruction requirements and causing biased rewards. To address this, we propose the Verifier-Based Reasoning Reward Model (RRM), which breaks instructions into verifiable principles, evaluates the edited images against each principle, and aggregates fine-grained scores to reduce hallucinations and provide more interpretable criteria. To address this, we argue the key is to move from a simple scorer to a reasoning verifier. We introduce Edit-R1, a framework to build a chain-of-thought (CoT) verifier-based reasoning reward model (RRM) and leverage it into the downstream editing task. The Edit-RRM breaks instructions into distinct principles, evaluates the edited image against each, and aggregates these checks to provide an interpretable, fine-grained reward. To build such an RRM, we first apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a "cold-start" to generate CoT reward trajectories. Then, we introduce Group Contrastive Preference Optimization (GCPO), a reinforcement learning algorithm that leverages human pairwise preference data to reinforce our pointwise RRM. After building the RRM, we use GRPO to train editing models with this non-differentiable yet powerful reward model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Edit-RRM surpasses powerful VLMs such as Seed-1.5-VL and Seed-1.6-VL as an editing-specific reward model, and we observe a clear scaling trend, with performance consistently improving from 3B to 7B parameters. Moreover, Edit-R1 delivers gains to editing models like FLUX.1-kontext, highlighting its effectiveness in enhancing image editing.

Single-image reflection separation is highly challenging under extreme conditions like glare or weak reflections. Existing methods often struggle to recover both layers in glare or weak-reflection scenarios because of insufficient information. This paper presents a diffusion model explicitly fine-tuned for this task, leveraging generative diffusion priors for robust separation. Our method simultaneously generates transmission and reflection layers through a unified diffusion model, incorporating a novel cross-layer self-attention mechanism for better feature disentanglement. We further introduce a disjoint sampling strategy to iteratively reduce interference between the layers during diffusion and a latent optimization step with a learned composition function for improved results in complex real-world scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art methods on multiple real-world benchmarks. Project page: https://brian90709.github.io/diff-reflection-separation/

We present UniGen-1.5, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) for advanced image understanding, generation and editing. Building upon UniGen, we comprehensively enhance the model architecture and training pipeline to strengthen the image understanding and generation capabilities while unlocking strong image editing ability. Especially, we propose a unified Reinforcement Learning (RL) strategy that improves both image generation and image editing jointly via shared reward models. To further enhance image editing performance, we propose a light Edit Instruction Alignment stage that significantly improves the editing instruction comprehension that is essential for the success of the RL training. Experimental results show that UniGen-1.5 demonstrates competitive understanding and generation performance. Specifically, UniGen-1.5 achieves 0.89 and 4.31 overall scores on GenEval and ImgEdit benchmarks that surpass the state-of-the-art models such as BAGEL and reaching performance comparable to proprietary models such as GPT-Image-1.

We introduce **MotionEdit**, a novel dataset for motion-centric image editing--the task of modifying subject actions and interactions while preserving identity, structure, and physical plausibility.Unlike existing image editing datasets that focus on static appearance changes or contain only sparse, low-quality motion edits, MotionEdit provides high-fidelity image pairs depicting realistic motion transformations extracted and verified from continuous videos. This new task is not only scientifically challenging but also practically significant, powering downstream applications such as frame-controlled video synthesis and animation.To evaluate model performance on the novel task, we introduce **MotionEdit-Bench**, a benchmark that challenges models on motion-centric edits and measures model performance with generative, discriminative, and preference-based metrics.Benchmark results reveal that motion editing remains highly challenging for existing state-of-the-art diffusion-based editing models.To address this gap, we propose **MotionNFT** (Motion-guided Negative-aware FineTuning), a post-training framework that computes motion alignment rewards based on how well the motion flow between input and model-edited images matches the ground-truth motion, guiding models toward accurate motion transformations.Extensive experiments on FLUX.1 Kontext and Qwen-Image-Edit show that MotionNFT consistently improves editing quality and motion fidelity of both base models on the motion editing task without sacrificing general editing ability, demonstrating its effectiveness.

Given an image and a descriptive prompt, image inversion seeks to identify the initial noise that, when denoised, accurately reconstructs the original image. This is crucial for applications like image editing, which can be achieved by denoising the inverted noise with an edited prompt. Existing methods often rely on approximations. They often require many steps, leading to inaccuracies, slow processing, and artifacts due to the inherent intractability in the inversion process. To overcome these issues, in this work, we propose FlashIn, a novel algorithm for faster and more accurate image inversion, enabling high-quality, real-time editing. FlashIn offers two main contributions: i) A learnable neural network directly maps an image to its corresponding noise. Trained with a cycle-consistent strategy using generated data and seed noise, this approach yields a more efficient and precise inversion model. ii) Adversarial training aligns noise-reconstructed images with real ones, enhancing inversion accuracy and editing quality. These strategies enable a fast, accurate inversion process in a single step, with further improvements possible through additional steps. Integrated with few-step diffusion models such as Flux.1-Schnell, our method achieves high-quality image editing within one second on a single GPU, facilitating real-time, interactive editing. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FlashIn delivers state-of-the-art inversion precision and impressive editing results across various scenarios and applications.

Image aesthetic assessment (IAA) has extensive applications in content creation, album management, and recommendation systems, etc. In such applications, it is commonly needed to pick out the most aesthetically pleasing image from a series of images with subtle aesthetic variations, a topic we refer to as fine-grained IAA. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art IAA models are typically designed for coarse-grained evaluation, where images with notable aesthetic differences are evaluated independently on an absolute scale. These models are inherently limited in discriminating fine-grained aesthetic differences. To address the dilemma, we contribute FGAesthetics, a fine-grained IAA database with 32,217 images organized into 10,028 series, which are sourced from diverse categories including Natural, AIGC, and Cropping. Annotations are collected via pairwise comparisons within each series. We also devise Series Refinement and Rank Calibration to ensure the reliability of data and labels. Based on FGAesthetics, we further propose FGAesQ, a novel IAA framework that learns discriminative aesthetic scores from relative ranks through Difference-preserved Tokenization (DiffToken), Comparative Text-assisted Alignment (CTAlign), and Rank-aware Regression (RankReg). FGAesQ enables accurate aesthetic assessment in fine-grained scenarios while still maintains competitive performance in coarse-grained evaluation. Extensive experiments and comparisons demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.