SeedEdit: AI Image Editing Tool by ByteDance 176

SeedEdit is an innovative AI image editing model launched by ByteDance's Doubao large model team on November 11, 2024. The highlight of this model is that it enables fully automatic photo editing with just a single sentence. You can perform retouching, outfit changes, beautification, style transfer, as well as adding or removing elements in specified areas of an image. No professional image processing skills are required, no other operations are needed, and there is no need for complex operations like Photoshop to make various complex modifications and edits to images. Whether it is changing the content or style of an image, or adjusting lighting and angles, SeedEdit can accomplish it all while maintaining high-quality editing results.

SeedEdit also supports natural language input in both Chinese and English, and can even understand idioms and proper nouns, ensuring precise execution of editing instructions.

SeedEdit Main Features and Highlights:

• Natural Language Control: Users can describe editing requirements in natural language, just like talking to a person, such as "replace the watermelon with grapes," and the model can quickly respond and complete the editing task.

• Multi-Round Modification: SeedEdit can not only generate high-quality images during the initial edit but also support multi-round modifications. After each round of optimization, SeedEdit can better understand more subtle editing instructions, such as adjusting only local colors, changing lighting direction, or adding small objects, without making unnecessary changes to other areas.

• Precise Understanding: SeedEdit has powerful comprehension capabilities and can accurately identify and execute complex editing instructions, keeping the editing results consistent with the user's intent.

• Detail Preservation: During the editing process, SeedEdit can preserve the original details of the image, maintaining high quality even when handling fine parts such as glass cracks or hair strands.

• Technical Breakthrough: It adopts the Diffusion architecture but transforms the image generation model into an editing model through innovative methods, balancing image reconstruction and generation, and improving the controllability and quality of editing.

• Data Generation Strategy: To address the lack of data pairs in image editing tasks, the concept of a T2I (text-to-image) based weak editor is introduced to improve the consistency of before and after images.

• Versatility: As a general-purpose image editing tool, SeedEdit is suitable for a wide range of editing needs, from everyday photo retouching to creative design, providing more options.

SeedEdit Precisely Handles Various Detail Modifications:

SeedEdit supports multiple types of editing, covering a variety of requirements from minor detail adjustments to large-scale content replacement, and can handle different modification scopes:

• Local Replacement: Replace a certain element in the image, such as replacing the rabbit in the picture with a deer.

• Geometric Adjustment: Adjust the size, shape, or angle of objects in the image, such as turning a character to one side or changing the position of a hand.

• Lighting Changes: Adjust the direction and intensity of lighting, such as letting light shine in from the left side.

• Style Transfer: Transform the image into a different artistic style, such as turning a realistic style into a cartoon style.

• Small-Scale Modifications: For example, adjusting facial expressions, changing colors, or fine-tuning object shapes.

• Large-Scale Replacement: Such as modifying the scene background, adding new objects, or replacing the entire subject element.

Comparison of SeedEdit with DALLE3 and Midjourney:

• DALLE3: Better matches text prompt requirements but easily introduces unintended content changes.

• Midjourney: Performs excellently in aesthetics but is slightly less accurate with text instructions.

• SeedEdit: Achieves high instruction accuracy while preserving the original image details, overall editing image content more precisely and less prone to excessive irrelevant modifications.

Users can use SeedEdit to easily modify image content, such as changing the color of a character's clothing, transforming the image style into watercolor or anime, or removing specific objects from the background.

Currently, SeedEdit has begun testing on the Doubao PC client and the Jimeng AI web client. Users can achieve efficient image editing with simple instructions through the experience addresses below.

SeedEdit Doubao Experience Address:

https://www.doubao.com/chat/create-image

SeedEdit Jimeng Experience Address:

https://jimeng.jianying.com/ai-tool/image/generate