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Insert Anything: Image Insertion via In-Context Editing in DiT

arXiv 2504.15009 ↗First posted 21 Apr 2025cs.CVcited by 61

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Abstract (arXiv)

This work presents Insert Anything, a unified framework for reference-based image insertion that seamlessly integrates objects from reference images into target scenes under flexible, user-specified control guidance. Instead of training separate models for individual tasks, our approach is trained once on our new AnyInsertion dataset--comprising 120K prompt-image pairs covering diverse tasks such as person, object, and garment insertion--and effortlessly generalizes to a wide range of insertion scenarios. Such a challenging setting requires capturing both identity features and fine-grained details, while allowing versatile local adaptations in style, color, and texture. To this end, we propose to leverage the multimodal attention of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) to support both mask- and text-guided editing. Furthermore, we introduce an in-context editing mechanism that treats the reference image as contextual information, employing two prompting strategies to harmonize the inserted elements with the target scene while faithfully preserving their distinctive features. Extensive experiments on AnyInsertion, DreamBooth, and VTON-HD benchmarks demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms existing alternatives, underscoring its great potential in real-world applications such as creative content generation, virtual try-on, and scene composition.

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  5. 2025FullDiT2: Efficient In-Context Conditioning for Video Diffusion Transformerscited by 18
  6. 2025ContextGen: Contextual Layout Anchoring for Identity-Consistent Multi-Instance Generationcited by 18
  7. 2025Query-Kontext: An Unified Multimodal Model for Image Generation and Editingcited by 15
  8. 2025IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learningcited by 10
  9. 2025MICo-150K: A Comprehensive Dataset Advancing Multi-Image Compositioncited by 10
  10. 2026SRA 2: Variational Autoencoder Self-Representation Alignment for Efficient Diffusion Trainingcited by 9
  11. 2025In-Context Brush: Zero-shot Customized Subject Insertion with Context-Aware Latent Space Manipulationcited by 7
  12. 2026InnoAds-Composer: Efficient Condition Composition for E-Commerce Poster Generationcited by 6
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  2. 2025KnowVal: A Knowledge-Augmented and Value-Guided Autonomous Driving Systemcited by 5
  3. 2026HiFi-Inpaint: Towards High-Fidelity Reference-Based Inpainting for Generating Detail-Preserving Human-Product Imagescited by 5
  4. 2025MIND-Edit: MLLM Insight-Driven Editing via Language-Vision Projectioncited by 4
  5. 2025MagicQuillV2: Precise and Interactive Image Editing with Layered Visual Cuescited by 4
  6. 2026Efficient Text-Guided Convolutional Adapter for the Diffusion Modelcited by 4
  7. 2026DriveCombo: Benchmarking Compositional Traffic Rule Reasoning in Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
  8. 2026Is This Edit Correct? A Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Reasoning-Aware Image Editingcited by 3
  9. 2026Direct 3D-Aware Object Insertion via Decomposed Visual Proxiescited by 3
  10. 2025DreamOmni3: Scribble-based Editing and Generationcited by 2
  11. 2026A2-Edit: Precise Reference-Guided Image Editing of Arbitrary Objects and Ambiguous Maskscited by 2
  12. 2026TRACE: High-Fidelity 3D Scene Editing via Tangible Reconstruction and Geometry-Aligned Contextual Video Maskingcited by 2
  13. 2026InnoText: A Unified Model for Visual Text Generation and Editingcited by 2
  14. 2025Geometry-Editable and Appearance-Preserving Object Compositoncited by 1
  15. 2025PosBridge: Multi-View Positional Embedding Transplant for Identity-Aware Image Editingcited by 1
  16. 2025Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfercited by 1
  17. 2025Insert In Style: A Zero-Shot Generative Framework for Harmonious Cross-Domain Object Compositioncited by 1
  18. 2025Dynamic Image Prompt Adapter for Scalable Zero-shot Personalized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 1
  19. 2025RoomEditor++: A Parameter-Sharing Diffusion Architecture for High-Fidelity Furniture Synthesiscited by 1
  20. 20263D Space as a Scratchpad for Editable Text-to-Image Generationcited by 1
  21. 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformerscited by 1
  22. 2026InsHuman: Towards Natural and Identity-Preserving Human Insertioncited by 1
  23. 2026ModaFlow: Modality-Aware Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Virtual Try-Oncited by 1
  24. 2026InsertFuse: A Unified Framework for Multi-Category Reference-Guided Image Insertioncited by 1
  25. 2026GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editingcited by 1
  26. 2025DreamSwapV: Mask-guided Subject Swapping for Any Customized Video Editingcited by 0
  27. 2025TokenAR: Multiple Subject Generation via Autoregressive Token-level enhancementcited by 0
  28. 2025Moving Beyond Diffusion: Hierarchy-to-Hierarchy Autoregression for fMRI-to-Image Reconstructioncited by 0
  29. 2025Not All Birds Look The Same: Identity-Preserving Generation For Birdscited by 0
  30. 2025Borrowing from anything: A generalizable framework for reference-guided instance editingcited by 0
  31. 2026OSInsert: Towards High-authenticity and High-fidelity Image Compositioncited by 0
  32. 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactionscited by 0
  33. 2026MV-Fashion: Towards Enabling Virtual Try-On and Size Estimation with Multi-View Paired Datacited by 0
  34. 2026OPRO: Orthogonal Panel-Relative Operators for Panel-Aware In-Context Image Generationcited by 0
  35. 2026Reflection Generation for Composite Image Using Diffusion Modelcited by 0
  36. 2026CatalogStitch: Dimension-Aware and Occlusion-Preserving Object Compositing for Catalog Image Generationcited by 0
  37. 2026Large-Scale Universal Defect Generation: Foundation Models and Datasetscited by 0
  38. 2026Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectificationcited by 0

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  3. 2024BrushEdit: All-In-One Image Inpainting and Editing
  4. 2023Edit Everything: A Text-Guided Generative System for Images Editing
  5. 2024InVi: Object Insertion In Videos Using Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Models
  6. 2025OmniPaint: Mastering Object-Oriented Editing via Disentangled Insertion-Removal Inpainting
  7. 2025In-Context Edit: Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
  8. 2025FreeInsert: Personalized Object Insertion with Geometric and Style Control