Xiaoya Yang

Pu Cao, Lu Yang, Dongxv Liu et al.

Recently, inversion methods have focused on additional high-rate information in the generator (e.g., weights or intermediate features) to refine inversion and editing results from embedded latent codes. Although these techniques gain reasonable improvement in reconstruction, they decrease editing capability, especially on complex images (e.g., containing occlusions, detailed backgrounds, and artifacts). A vital crux is refining inversion results, avoiding editing capability degradation. To tackle this problem, we introduce Domain-Specific Hybrid Refinement (DHR), which draws on the advantages and disadvantages of two mainstream refinement techniques to maintain editing ability with fidelity improvement. Specifically, we first propose Domain-Specific Segmentation to segment images into two parts: in-domain and out-of-domain parts. The refinement process aims to maintain the editability for in-domain areas and improve two domains' fidelity. We refine these two parts by weight modulation and feature modulation, which we call Hybrid Modulation Refinement. Our proposed method is compatible with all latent code embedding methods. Extension experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art in real image inversion and editing. Code is available at https://github.com/caopulan/Domain-Specific_Hybrid_Refinement_Inversion.

Xuekun Zhao, Pu Cao, Xiaoya Yang et al.

As research on image inversion advances, the process is generally divided into two stages. The first step is Image Embedding, involves using an encoder or optimization procedure to embed an image and obtain its corresponding latent code. The second stage, referred to as Result Refinement, further improves the inversion and editing outcomes. Although this refinement stage substantially enhances reconstruction fidelity, perception and editability remain largely unchanged and are highly dependent on the latent codes derived from the first stage. Therefore, a key challenge lies in obtaining latent codes that preserve reconstruction fidelity while simultaneously improving perception and editability. In this work, we first reveal that these two properties are closely related to the degree of alignment (or disalignment) between the inverted latent codes and the synthetic distribution. Based on this insight, we propose the \textbf{ Latent Space Alignment Inversion Paradigm (LSAP)}, which integrates both an evaluation metric and a unified inversion solution. Specifically, we introduce the \textbf{Normalized Style Space ($\mathcal{S^N}$ space)} and \textbf{Normalized Style Space Cosine Distance (NSCD)} to quantify the disalignment of inversion methods. Moreover, our paradigm can be optimized for both encoder-based and optimization-based embeddings, providing a consistent alignment framework. Extensive experiments across various domains demonstrate that NSCD effectively captures perceptual and editable characteristics, and that our alignment paradigm achieves state-of-the-art performance in both stages of inversion.