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cs.CV2026

PhotoAgent: Exploratory Visual Aesthetic Planning with Large Vision Models

Mingde Yao, Zhiyuan You, King-Man Tam +2

PhotoAgent is an autonomous photo‑editing system that interprets a user’s aesthetic intent, plans a sequence of editing actions with tree search, and iteratively refines images usi…

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How far have we gone in Generative Image Restoration? A study on its capability, limitations and evaluation practices

Xiang Yin, Jinfan Hu, Zhiyuan You +4

Generative Image Restoration (GIR) has achieved impressive perceptual realism, but how far have its practical capabilities truly advanced compared with previous methods? To answer…

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PhotoFramer: Multi-modal Image Composition Instruction

Zhiyuan You, Ke Wang, He Zhang +5

Composition matters during the photo-taking process, yet many casual users struggle to frame well-composed images. To provide composition guidance, we introduce PhotoFramer, a mult…

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DA-VAE: Plug-in Latent Compression for Diffusion via Detail Alignment

Xin Cai, Zhiyuan You, Zhoutong Zhang +1

Reducing token count is crucial for efficient training and inference of latent diffusion models, especially at high resolution. A common strategy is to build high-compression image…

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Position: Evaluation of Visual Processing Should Be Human-Centered, Not Metric-Centered

Jinfan Hu, Fanghua Yu, Zhiyuan You +5

This position paper argues that the evaluation of modern visual processing systems should no longer be driven primarily by single-metric image quality assessment benchmarks, partic…

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Revisiting the Generalization Problem of Low-level Vision Models Through the Lens of Image Deraining

Jinfan Hu, Zhiyuan You, Jinjin Gu +3

Generalization to unseen degradations remains a fundamental challenge for low-level vision models. This paper aims to investigate the underlying mechanism of this failure, using im…