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Controllable-Continuous Color Editing in Diffusion Model via Color Mapping

arXiv 2509.13756 ↗First posted 17 Sep 2025cs.CVcited by 4

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

Abstract (arXiv)

In recent years, text-driven image editing has made significant progress. However, due to the inherent ambiguity and discreteness of natural language, color editing still faces challenges such as insufficient precision and difficulty in achieving continuous control. Although linearly interpolating the embedding vectors of different textual descriptions can guide the model to generate a sequence of images with varying colors, this approach lacks precise control over the range of color changes in the output images. Moreover, the relationship between the interpolation coefficient and the resulting image color is unknown and uncontrollable. To address these issues, we introduce a color mapping module that explicitly models the correspondence between the text embedding space and image RGB values. This module predicts the corresponding embedding vector based on a given RGB value, enabling precise color control of the generated images while maintaining semantic consistency. Users can specify a target RGB range to generate images with continuous color variations within the desired range, thereby achieving finer-grained, continuous, and controllable color editing. Experimental results demonstrate that our method performs well in terms of color continuity and controllability.

Key facts. Cited by 4 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 15 of its 23 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 Sep 2025.

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15 of 23 references.

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  1. 2024Continuous, Subject-Specific Attribute Control in T2I Models by Identifying Semantic Directions25 Mar
  2. 2023LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing using Text-to-Image Models28 Nov
  3. 2023IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models13 Aug
  4. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  5. 2022Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models17 Oct

Other references · 10

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  3. 2024SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videoscited by 2,863
  4. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
  5. 2023DemoFusion: Democratising High-Resolution Image Generation With No cited by 107
  6. 2023Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regionscited by 31
  7. 2024ZeST: Zero-Shot Material Transfer from a Single Imagecited by 24
  8. 2025MaterialFusion: High-Quality, Zero-Shot, and Controllable Material Transfer with Diffusion Modelscited by 10
  9. 2021Making a Bird AI Expert Work for You and Mecited by 6
  10. 2024Benchmarking Segmentation Models with Mask-Preserved Attribute Editingcited by 6

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  1. 2026NumColor: Precise Numeric Color Control in Text-to-Image Generation
  2. 2024ColorEdit: Training-free Image-Guided Color editing with diffusion model
  3. 2024Control Color: Multimodal Diffusion-based Interactive Image Colorization
  4. 2025Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer
  5. 2023DiffColor: Toward High Fidelity Text-Guided Image Colorization with Diffusion Models
  6. 2026Recolour What Matters: Region-Aware Colour Editing via Token-Level Diffusion
  7. 2025Leveraging Semantic Attribute Binding for Free-Lunch Color Control in Diffusion Models
  8. 2023Diffusing Colors: Image Colorization with Text Guided Diffusion