Paint-by-Example

Why we included this project

Image editors and designers who need precise control over a repaint will like this project's approach: instead of describing the change in words, you supply a mask and a reference image, and the diffusion model repaints the masked area to match the reference. That distinction matters when you want, say, a garment swapped for another garment's style shown in a sample photo. The method runs a single forward pass, so it's easy to reason about and integrate, and the repo includes training and inference code plus a quantitative test benchmark for reproducibility. A live Hugging Face demo gets you from paper to a working edit quickly.