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LBM: Latent Bridge Matching for Fast Image-to-Image Translation

arXiv 2503.07535 ↗First posted 10 Mar 2025cs.CVcited by 36

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In this paper, we introduce Latent Bridge Matching (LBM), a new, versatile and scalable method that relies on Bridge Matching in a latent space to achieve fast image-to-image translation. We show that the method can reach state-of-the-art results for various image-to-image tasks using only a single inference step. In addition to its efficiency, we also demonstrate the versatility of the method across different image translation tasks such as object removal, normal and depth estimation, and object relighting. We also derive a conditional framework of LBM and demonstrate its effectiveness by tackling the tasks of controllable image relighting and shadow generation. We provide an implementation at https://github.com/gojasper/LBM.

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  12. 2026Contrast-X: A Multi-Modal Contrast Image Synthesis Benchmark and Universal Modality Flow Matchingcited by 2
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  9. 2026EarthBridge: A Solution for 4th Multi-modal Aerial View Image Challenge Translation Trackcited by 0
  10. 2026TuLaBM: Tumor-Biased Latent Bridge Matching for Contrast-Enhanced MRI Synthesiscited by 0
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  16. 2026Lighting-Consistent Object Transfer Across Radiance Fieldscited by 0
  17. 2026Spectral Consistent Flow for One-step 3D Medical Image Translationcited by 0
  18. 2026A2BM: Alignment-Aware Bridge Matching for Image-to-Image Translationcited by 0
  19. 2026Consistent Feature Transport for Image Relightingcited by 0
  20. 2026MIRAGE: Multi-scale Lesion-Informed Representation with Auxiliary Guidance for MRI Contrast Enhancementcited by 0
  21. 2026Pre- to Post-Contrast Synthesis of Breast DCE-MRI using Latent Bridge Matchingcited by 0
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  23. 2026Fast Cross-Strength Multi-Contrast Brain MRI Translation using Latent Bridge Matchingcited by 0
  24. 2026Spot, Separate, and Enhance: Fully Generative Approach for Audio Mixingcited by 0