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UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics

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Chen, Xi, Zhang, Zhifei, Zhang, He, Zhou, Yuqian, Kim, Soo Ye, Liu, Qing, Li, Yijun, Zhang, Jianming, Zhao, Nanxuan, Wang, Yilin, Ding, Hui, Lin, Zhe, Zhao, Hengshuang·2025·2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while capturing visual variations. Inspired by recent video generation models that effectively balance consistency and variation across frames, we propose a unifying approach that treats image-level tasks as discontinuous video generation. Specifically, we treat varying numbers of input and output images as frames, enabling seamless support for tasks such as image generation, editing, customization, composition, etc. Although designed for image-level tasks, we leverage videos as a scalable source for universal supervision. UniReal learns world dynamics from large-scale videos, demonstrating advanced capability in handling shadows, reflections, pose variation, and object interaction, while also exhibiting emergent capability for novel applications.

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Authors
Chen, X., Zhang, Z., Zhang, H., Zhou, Y., Kim, S. Y., Liu, Q., Li, Y., Zhang, J., Zhao, N., Wang, Y., Ding, H., Lin, Z., & Zhao, H.
Affiliations
  • University of Hong Kong (HK)
  • Adobe Systems (United States) (US)
Venue
2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2025-06-10
Pages
12501-12511
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4413157087
Cited by
23
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 8
FWCI
17.38
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Digital Media Forensic Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
image generation, image editing, image composition, video supervision, pose variation, object interaction

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