BrushEdit: All-In-One Image Inpainting and Editing

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Authors: Yaowei Li, Yuxuan Bian, Xuan Ju, Zhaoyang Zhang, Junhao Zhuang, Ying Shan, Yuexian Zou, Qiang Xu
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Abstract

Image editing has advanced significantly with the development of diffusion models using both inversion-based and instruction-based methods. However, current inversion-based approaches struggle with big modifications (e.g., adding or removing objects) due to the structured nature of inversion noise, which hinders substantial changes. Meanwhile, instruction-based methods often constrain users to black-box operations, limiting direct interaction for specifying editing regions and intensity. To address these limitations, we propose BrushEdit, a novel inpainting-based instruction-guided image editing paradigm, which leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and image inpainting models to enable autonomous, user-friendly, and interactive free-form instruction editing. Specifically, we devise a system enabling free-form instruction editing by integrating MLLMs and a dual-branch image inpainting model in an agentcooperative framework to perform editing category classification, main object identification, mask acquisition, and editing area inpainting. Extensive experiments show that our framework effectively combines MLLMs and inpainting models, achieving superior performance across seven metrics including mask region preservation and editing effect coherence.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume
PP
Pages
1–13
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN