GroupDiff: Diffusion-Based Group Portrait Editing

Yuming Jiang, Nanxuan Zhao*, Qing Liu, Krishna Kumar Singh, Shuai Yang, Chen Change Loy, Ziwei Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Group portrait editing is highly desirable since users constantly want to add a person, delete a person, or manipulate existing persons. It is also challenging due to the intricate dynamics of human interactions and the diverse gestures. In this work, we present GroupDiff, a pioneering effort to tackle group photo editing with three dedicated contributions: 1) Data Engine: Since there are no labeled data for group photo editing, we create a data engine to generate paired data for training. The training data engine covers the diverse needs of group portrait editing. 2) Appearance Preservation: To keep the appearance consistent after editing, we inject the images of persons from the group photo into the attention modules and employ skeletons to provide intra-person guidance. 3) Control Flexibility: Bounding boxes indicating the locations of each person are used to reweight the attention matrix so that the features of each person can be injected into the correct places. This inter-person guidance provides flexible manners for manipulation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GroupDiff exhibits state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods. GroupDiff offers controllability for editing and maintains the fidelity of the original photos.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2024 - 18th European Conference, Proceedings
EditorsAleš Leonardis, Elisa Ricci, Stefan Roth, Olga Russakovsky, Torsten Sattler, Gül Varol
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages221-239
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783031727535
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Externally publishedYes
Event18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024 - Milan, Italy
Duration: Sept 29 2024Oct 4 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15092 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityMilan
Period9/29/2410/4/24

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Diffusion Models
  • Group Photo Editing

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