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MuseFace: Text-driven Face Editing via Diffusion-based Mask Generation Approach

arXiv 2503.23888 ↗First posted 31 Mar 2025cs.CV cs.AIcited by 2

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Face editing modifies the appearance of face, which plays a key role in customization and enhancement of personal images. Although much work have achieved remarkable success in text-driven face editing, they still face significant challenges as none of them simultaneously fulfill the characteristics of diversity, controllability and flexibility. To address this challenge, we propose MuseFace, a text-driven face editing framework, which relies solely on text prompt to enable face editing. Specifically, MuseFace integrates a Text-to-Mask diffusion model and a semantic-aware face editing model, capable of directly generating fine-grained semantic masks from text and performing face editing. The Text-to-Mask diffusion model provides textitdiversity and textitflexibility to the framework, while the semantic-aware face editing model ensures textitcontrollability of the framework. Our framework can create fine-grained semantic masks, making precise face editing possible, and significantly enhancing the controllability and flexibility of face editing models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MuseFace achieves superior high-fidelity performance.

Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 43 of its 55 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Mar 2025.

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  2. 2023MAG-Edit: Localized Image Editing in Complex Scenarios via Mask-Based Attention-Adjusted Guidance18 Dec
  3. 2023Personalized Face Inpainting with Diffusion Models by Parallel Visual Attention6 Dec
  4. 2023MaskDiffusion: Boosting Text-to-Image Consistency with Conditional Mask8 Sep
  5. 2023Accelerating Text-to-Image Editing via Cache-Enabled Sparse Diffusion Inference27 May
  6. 2023ChatFace: Chat-Guided Real Face Editing via Diffusion Latent Space Manipulation24 May
  7. 2023Collaborative Diffusion for Multi-Modal Face Generation and Editing20 Apr
  8. 2023T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models16 Feb
  9. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  10. 2023Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models31 Jan
  11. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  12. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance20 Oct
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  1. 2022Blended Latent Diffusion6 Jun
  2. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  3. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  4. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec
  5. 2021Blended Diffusion for Text-driven Editing of Natural Images29 Nov

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  6. 2023DiffusionRig: Learning Personalized Priors for Facial Appearance Editingcited by 75
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  1. 2024PreciseControl: Enhancing Text-To-Image Diffusion Models with Fine-Grained Attribute Control
  2. 2023Text-Guided 3D Face Synthesis -- From Generation to Editing
  3. 2025S2Edit: Text-Guided Image Editing with Precise Semantic and Spatial Control
  4. 2026MMFace-DiT: A Dual-Stream Diffusion Transformer for High-Fidelity Multimodal Face Generation
  5. 2024MasterWeaver: Taming Editability and Face Identity for Personalized Text-to-Image Generation
  6. 2023When StyleGAN Meets Stable Diffusion: a mathscrW_+ Adapter for Personalized Image Generation
  7. 2026A Large-scale Evaluation of Text-guided Models for Facial Editing
  8. 2025Face-MakeUp: Multimodal Facial Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation