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Foreground-aware Semantic Representations for Image Harmonization

arXiv 2006.00809 ↗First posted 1 Jun 2020cs.CVcited by 53

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Abstract (arXiv)

Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are based on training of encoder-decoder networks from scratch, which makes it challenging for a neural network to learn a high-level representation of objects. We propose a novel architecture to utilize the space of high-level features learned by a pre-trained classification network. We create our models as a combination of existing encoder-decoder architectures and a pre-trained foreground-aware deep high-resolution network. We extensively evaluate the proposed method on existing image harmonization benchmark and set up a new state-of-the-art in terms of MSE and PSNR metrics. The code and trained models are available at urlhttps://github.com/saic-vul/imageharmonization.

Key facts. Cited by 53 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 1 Jun 2020.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 8; 2022: 17; 2023: 14; 2024: 9; 2025: 3; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2021Making Images Real Again: A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Image Compositioncited by 63
  2. 2022Harmonizer: Learning to Perform White-Box Image and Video Harmonizationcited by 61
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Harmonization via Collaborative Dual Transformationscited by 55
  4. 2022DCCF: Deep Comprehensible Color Filter Learning Framework for High-Resolution Image Harmonizationcited by 46
  5. 2023ControlCom: Controllable Image Composition using Diffusion Modelcited by 43
  6. 2021Spatial-Separated Curve Rendering Network for Efficient and High-Resolution Image Harmonizationcited by 25
  7. 2022SCS-Co: Self-Consistent Style Contrastive Learning for Image Harmonizationcited by 24
  8. 2023Paste, Inpaint and Harmonize via Denoising: Subject-Driven Image Editing with Pre-Trained Diffusion Modelcited by 20
  9. 2023Dense Pixel-to-Pixel Harmonization via Continuous Image Representationcited by 19
  10. 2021Learning Interactive Driving Policies via Data-driven Simulationcited by 17
  11. 2023DreamCom: Finetuning Text-guided Inpainting Model for Image Compositioncited by 17
  12. 2024FreeCompose: Generic Zero-Shot Image Composition with Diffusion Priorcited by 16
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  1. 2023PixHt-Lab: Pixel Height Based Light Effect Generation for Image Compositingcited by 15
  2. 2024DeCo: Decoupled Human-Centered Diffusion Video Editing with Motion Consistencycited by 13
  3. 2022Fast Object Placement Assessmentcited by 12
  4. 2022Hierarchical Dynamic Image Harmonizationcited by 12
  5. 2023LEMaRT: Label-Efficient Masked Region Transform for Image Harmonizationcited by 12
  6. 2023Deep Image Harmonization in Dual Color Spacescited by 12
  7. 2021Deep Image Harmonization by Bridging the Reality Gapcited by 11
  8. 2022Painterly Image Harmonization in Dual Domainscited by 11
  9. 2022Deep Video Harmonization with Color Mapping Consistencycited by 9
  10. 2022FRIH: Fine-grained Region-aware Image Harmonizationcited by 9
  11. 2023Zero-Shot Image Harmonization with Generative Model Priorcited by 8
  12. 2025MV-CoLight: Efficient Object Compositing with Consistent Lighting and Shadow Generationcited by 8
  13. 2022Image Harmonization by Matching Regional Referencescited by 6
  14. 2023Deep Image Harmonization with Learnable Augmentationcited by 5
  15. 2023Learning Global-aware Kernel for Image Harmonizationcited by 4
  16. 2023Deep Image Harmonization with Globally Guided Feature Transformation and Relation Distillationcited by 4
  17. 2024Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Continual Semantic Segmentation for Robotic Surgerycited by 4
  18. 2025MagicQuillV2: Precise and Interactive Image Editing with Layered Visual Cuescited by 4
  19. 2023Painterly Image Harmonization by Learning from Painterly Objectscited by 3
  20. 2021Deep Portrait Lighting Enhancement with 3D Guidancecited by 2
  21. 2021SIDNet: Learning Shading-aware Illumination Descriptor for Image Harmonizationcited by 2
  22. 2022Interactive Portrait Harmonizationcited by 2
  23. 2022Dual-Domain Image Synthesis using Segmentation-Guided GANcited by 2
  24. 2022Inharmonious Region Localization by Magnifying Domain Discrepancycited by 2
  25. 2024GroupDiff: Diffusion-based Group Portrait Editingcited by 2
  26. 2022Image Harmonization with Region-wise Contrastive Learningcited by 1
  27. 2022Inharmonious Region Localization with Auxiliary Style Featurecited by 1
  28. 2023Progressive Painterly Image Harmonization from Low-level Styles to High-level Stylescited by 1
  29. 2024Diverse Image Harmonizationcited by 1
  30. 2021HYouTube: Video Harmonization Datasetcited by 0
  31. 2022CcHarmony: Color-checker based Image Harmonization Datasetcited by 0
  32. 2022Inharmonious Region Localization via Recurrent Self-Reasoningcited by 0
  33. 2022AMICO: Amodal Instance Compositioncited by 0
  34. 2023Painterly Image Harmonization via Adversarial Residual Learningcited by 0
  35. 2024PHNet: Patch-based Normalization for Portrait Harmonizationcited by 0
  36. 2024DepGAN: Leveraging Depth Maps for Handling Occlusions and Transparency in Image Compositioncited by 0
  37. 2024Harmonizing Attention: Training-free Texture-aware Geometry Transfercited by 0
  38. 2024Retrieval Augmented Image Harmonizationcited by 0

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