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DiffBrush:Just Painting the Art by Your Hands

arXiv 2502.20904 ↗First posted 28 Feb 2025cs.CV cs.MMcited by 0

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid development of image generation and editing algorithms in recent years has enabled ordinary user to produce realistic images. However, the current AI painting ecosystem predominantly relies on text-driven diffusion models (T2I), which pose challenges in accurately capturing user requirements. Furthermore, achieving compatibility with other modalities incurs substantial training costs. To this end, we introduce DiffBrush, which is compatible with T2I models and allows users to draw and edit images. By manipulating and adapting the internal representation of the diffusion model, DiffBrush guides the model-generated images to converge towards the user's hand-drawn sketches for user's specific needs without additional training. DiffBrush achieves control over the color, semantic, and instance of objects in images by continuously guiding the latent and instance-level attention map during the denoising process of the diffusion model. Besides, we propose a latent regeneration, which refines the randomly sampled noise in the diffusion model, obtaining a better image generation layout. Finally, users only need to roughly draw the mask of the instance (acceptable colors) on the canvas, DiffBrush can naturally generate the corresponding instance at the corresponding location.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 23 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Feb 2025.

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  1. 2024ControlNeXt: Powerful and Efficient Control for Image and Video Generation12 Aug
  2. 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing6 Mar
  3. 2023FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition12 Dec
  4. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  5. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models3 Jun
  6. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec

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  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
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  6. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,255
  7. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,356
  8. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
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  10. 2021SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 1,937
  11. 2023MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editingcited by 727
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  1. 2022Diffusion Models already have a Semantic Latent Spacecited by 328
  2. 2023Training-Free Layout Control with Cross-Attention Guidancecited by 313
  3. 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generationcited by 305
  4. 2022Diffusion models as plug-and-play priorscited by 231
  5. 2024Tutorial on Diffusion Models for Imaging and Visioncited by 49

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  1. 2023Diffusion Brush: A Latent Diffusion Model-based Editing Tool for AI-generated Images
  2. 2024PainterNet: Adaptive Image Inpainting with Actual-Token Attention and Diverse Mask Control
  3. 2024DiffMorph: Text-less Image Morphing with Diffusion Models
  4. 2024Draw Like an Artist: Complex Scene Generation with Diffusion Model via Composition, Painting, and Retouching
  5. 2023SketchFFusion: Sketch-guided image editing with diffusion model
  6. 2023Stable Diffusion Reference Only: Image Prompt and Blueprint Jointly Guided Multi-Condition Diffusion Model for Secondary Painting
  7. 2023DiffSketching: Sketch Control Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models
  8. 2024KnobGen: Controlling the Sophistication of Artwork in Sketch-Based Diffusion Models