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FDS: Frequency-Aware Denoising Score for Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing

arXiv 2503.19191 ↗First posted 24 Mar 2025cs.CVcited by 12

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-guided image editing using Text-to-Image (T2I) models often fails to yield satisfactory results, frequently introducing unintended modifications, such as the loss of local detail and color changes. In this paper, we analyze these failure cases and attribute them to the indiscriminate optimization across all frequency bands, even though only specific frequencies may require adjustment. To address this, we introduce a simple yet effective approach that enables the selective optimization of specific frequency bands within localized spatial regions for precise edits. Our method leverages wavelets to decompose images into different spatial resolutions across multiple frequency bands, enabling precise modifications at various levels of detail. To extend the applicability of our approach, we provide a comparative analysis of different frequency-domain techniques. Additionally, we extend our method to 3D texture editing by performing frequency decomposition on the triplane representation, enabling frequency-aware adjustments for 3D textures. Quantitative evaluations and user studies demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in producing high-quality and precise edits.

Key facts. Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 37 of its 51 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2025.

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37 of 51 references.

Closest ancestors · 15

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  1. 2024FlexiEdit: Frequency-Aware Latent Refinement for Enhanced Non-Rigid Editing25 Jul
  2. 2024Frequency-Controlled Diffusion Model for Versatile Text-Guided Image-to-Image Translation3 Jul
  3. 2024FreeDiff: Progressive Frequency Truncation for Image Editing with Diffusion Models18 Apr
  4. 2024Noise Map Guidance: Inversion with Spatial Context for Real Image Editing7 Feb
  5. 2023Posterior Distillation Sampling23 Nov
  6. 2023Direct Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code2 Oct
  7. 2023Negative-prompt Inversion: Fast Image Inversion for Editing with Text-guided Diffusion Models26 May
  8. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  9. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  10. 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models17 Nov
  11. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance20 Oct
  12. 2022Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models17 Oct
3 more
  1. 2022Diffusion-based Image Translation using Disentangled Style and Content Representation30 Sep
  2. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  3. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr

Other references · 22

  1. 2019PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Librarycited by 20,160
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  3. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,029
  4. 2022LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text modelscited by 4,131
  5. 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusioncited by 3,006
  6. 2022Elucidating the Design Space of Diffusion-Based Generative Modelscited by 2,994
  7. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,409
  8. 2021CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioningcited by 2,388
  9. 2021Efficient Geometry-aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 1,204
  10. 2022Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translationcited by 897
  11. 2023MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editingcited by 722
  12. 2023Exploiting Diffusion Prior for Real-World Image Super-Resolutioncited by 486
10 more
  1. 2022SmartBrush: Text and Shape Guided Object Inpainting with Diffusion Modelcited by 276
  2. 2024Diffusion Models, Image Super-Resolution And Everything: A Surveycited by 63
  3. 2023Contrastive Denoising Score for Text-guided Latent Diffusion Image Editingcited by 49
  4. 2020Frequency Domain Image Translation: More Photo-realistic, Better Identity-preservingcited by 46
  5. 2023Exploiting the Signal-Leak Bias in Diffusion Modelscited by 36
  6. 2022EleGANt: Exquisite and Locally Editable GAN for Makeup Transfercited by 28
  7. 2024DreamSampler: Unifying Diffusion Sampling and Score Distillation for Image Manipulationcited by 22
  8. 2023Rephrase, Augment, Reason: Visual Grounding of Questions for Vision-Language Modelscited by 14
  9. 2016Do You See What I Mean? Visual Resolution of Linguistic Ambiguitiescited by 9
  10. 2024Coherent and Multi-modality Image Inpainting via Latent Space Optimizationcited by 5

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  1. 2026Dynamic Frequency Modulation for Controllable Text-driven Image Generation
  2. 2026FBSDiff++: Improved Frequency Band Substitution of Diffusion Features for Efficient and Highly Controllable Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation
  3. 2024FBSDiff: Plug-and-Play Frequency Band Substitution of Diffusion Features for Highly Controllable Text-Driven Image Translation
  4. 2024TiNO-Edit: Timestep and Noise Optimization for Robust Diffusion-Based Image Editing
  5. 2024Frequency-Aware Guidance for Blind Image Restoration via Diffusion Models
  6. 2025One Stone with Two Birds: A Null-Text-Null Frequency-Aware Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Image Inpainting
  7. 2025FreSca: Scaling in Frequency Space Enhances Diffusion Models
  8. 2024Frequency-Domain Refinement with Multiscale Diffusion for Super Resolution