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Group Editing: Edit Multiple Images in One Go

Yue Ma, Xinyu Wang, Qianli Ma, Qinghe Wang, Mingzhe Zheng, Xiangpeng Yang, Hao Li, Chongbo Zhao, Jixuan Ying, Harry Yang, Hongyu Liu, Qifeng Chen

arXiv:2603.22883v3cs.CV

TL;DR

Editing related images consistently is difficult when pose, viewpoint, and layout vary, because semantically aligned regions must be matched. GroupEditing combines geometric correspondences with video-model priors, and the authors report gains over state-of-the-art methods in visual quality, consistency, and semantic alignment.

  • Problem

    Prior group-editing methods either generalize poorly and produce artifacts or inconsistency, or handle only a small number of images, while high-quality training pairs and uniformity constraints remain scarce.

    Source: §1 · p. 2
  • Method

    GroupEditing treats related images as pseudo-video frames and injects VGGT geometric correspondences into a video model with geometry-enhanced and identity-enhanced RoPE.

    Source: §1 · p. 2
  • Results

    GroupEditing outperforms state-of-the-art methods in visual quality, editing consistency, and semantic alignment.

    Source: §5 · p. 8
  • Takeaways & Limitations

    The authors position GroupEditing as a promising solution for a wide range of multiimage editing applications.

    Source: §5 · p. 8

Abstract

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In this paper, we tackle the problem of performing consistent and unified modifications across a set of related images. This task is particularly challenging because these images may vary significantly in pose, viewpoint, and spatial layout. Achieving coherent edits requires establishing reliable correspondences across the images, so that modifications can be applied accurately to semantically aligned regions. To address this, we propose GroupEditing, a novel framework that builds both explicit and implicit relationships among images within a group. On the explicit side, we extract geometric correspondences using VGGT, which provides spatial alignment based on visual features. On the implicit side, we reformulate the image group as a pseudo-video and leverage the temporal coherence priors learned by pre-trained video models to capture latent relationships. To effectively fuse these two types of correspondences, we inject the explicit geometric cues from VGGT into the video model through a novel fusion mechanism. To support large-scale training, we construct GroupEditData, a new dataset containing high-quality masks and detailed captions for numerous image groups. Furthermore, to ensure identity preservation during editing, we introduce an alignment-enhanced RoPE module, which improves the model's ability to maintain consistent appearance across multiple images. Finally, we present GroupEditBench, a dedicated benchmark designed to evaluate the effectiveness of group-level image editing. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GroupEditing significantly outperforms existing methods in terms of visual quality, cross-view consistency, and semantic alignment.

1. Introduction · 2. Related Work · 3. Method

GroupEditing turns related images into pseudo-video frames and fuses video priors with VGGT geometry; identity-aware positional encoding and curated annotations support consistent group editing.

3. Method

  • GroupEditing reformulates related images as pseudo-video frames, injects VGGT correspondences with Ge-RoPE, and uses Identity-RoPE for identity alignment.The paper also introduces GroupEditData and GroupEditBench, and describes an inpainting-based editing pipeline.Source: §1 · pp. 2–3, §3 · p. 3

1. Introduction

  • GroupEditing reports outperforming all competitors on GroupEditBench across four metrics, including visual quality, editing consistency, and semantic alignment.The paper frames the task as maintaining coherent appearance and structure across related images, where per-image editing and limited correspondences struggle with geometric variation.Source: §1 · pp. 2–3

2. Related Work

  • Prior video-prior work uses video data for curation or inference-time guidance [12] [16] [67] [50] [66], but does not address group editing across diverse static views.Existing image-editing approaches are largely tailored to single images and can fail under complex geometric variation.Source: §2 · p. 3

3.1.1. Group image generation

  • The data pipeline generates related image sets with viewpoint, pose, and composition variation; 18,248 instruction–image groups were generated for filtering.Figure 2 summarizes image generation, quality evaluation, and annotation generation.Source: §3.1 · p. 3, Figure 2 · p. 3, §3.1.1 · p. 4

3.1.2. Quality evaluation

  • The pipeline segments objects with Segment Anything and Grounding DINO, then applies semantic-consistency and aesthetic filters to retain 7,517 high-quality groups.7,982 groups passed semantic and aesthetic evaluation before the final high-quality set was formed.Source: §3.1.2 · p. 4

3.1.3. Annotation generation

  • Annotations retain full-image captions and add masked-region descriptions, giving the training data image- and region-level semantics for learning semantic alignment and geometric consistency.The paper describes these annotations as support for GroupEditing’s implicit-explicit correspondence fusion.Source: §3.1.3 · p. 4

3.2.1. Pipeline overview

  • The editing pipeline encodes input images as latent tokens, augments them with VGGT tokens before self-attention, and retains latent tokens while benefiting from cross-view constraints.Identity-RoPE supplies pixel-level spatial positions, while Ge-RoPE adjusts them when displacement fields are available.Source: §3.2.1 · p. 5

3.2.2. Geometry-enhanced RoPE (Ge-RoPE) · 3.2.3. Identity-RoPE

  • Ge-RoPE warps positional encodings using VGGT displacement and confidence, while Identity-RoPE assigns corresponding object regions consistent positional signatures using bounding-rectangle-relative coordinates.Together, the modules address geometric alignment across images and identity consistency within the group.Source: §3.2.2 · pp. 5–6, §3.2.3 · p. 6

4. Experiment

Experiments report top results on GroupEditBench, show that geometry-enhanced and Identity-RoPE improve editing, and demonstrate applications of consistent edits in customized generation and 3D reconstruction.

4.1. Implementation Details

  • Training uses WAN-2.1 with AdamW at a 1×10−4 initial learning rate, 528 × 528 resolution, and batch size 8 on 8 NVIDIA A800 GPUs.The paper notes that further implementation details and quantitative metrics are in the supplementary materials.Source: §4.1 · pp. 6–7

4.2. Applications

  • Edited outputs support customized image generation with DreamBooth and LoRA, while Must3R uses consistent edited pairs to generate 3D point-based models and 2D matchings.DreamBooth fine-tuning uses 600 steps; Must3R requires no additional camera parameters.Source: §4.2 · p. 7

4.3. Comparison with baselines.

  • On GroupEditBench’s 800 image sets, our method achieves top results in automatic metrics and human preference across four rated aspects.The human-rated aspects are identity consistency, aesthetic, appearance fidelity, and overall quality; lower average rank is better.Source: §4.3 · p. 7

4.4. Ablation study

  • Geometry-enhanced RoPE improves spatial awareness and geometric transformation accuracy, while Identity-RoPE improves object identity consistency across images.The paper reports visual and quantitative ablation evidence for both components.Source: §4.4 · p. 7

5. Conclusion

GroupEditing combines geometric correspondences, video-model priors, and alignment-enhanced RoPE to edit related images consistently while preserving identity. The paper reports that it outperforms state-of-the-art methods in visual quality, editing consistency, and semantic alignment.

5. Conclusion

  • GroupEditing combines VGGT geometric correspondences with pre-trained video-model priors, using alignment-enhanced RoPE to preserve identity across diverse images.Source: §5 · p. 7
  • GroupEditData provides high-quality image groups with precise segmentation masks and detailed captions, while GroupEditBench evaluates group-level editing performance.Source: §5 · pp. 7–8
  • GroupEditing outperforms state-of-the-art methods in visual quality, editing consistency, and semantic alignment.The visual comparison covers both local and global edits.Source: Figure 7 · p. 8, §5 · p. 8

A. Rationale S1 … A. Rationale

The rationale describes compiling supplementary material with the main paper to support references between them and include the supplement at the end of an arXiv submission.

A. Rationale

  • Combining the supplementary with the main paper allows the supplement to back-reference main-paper sections.The passage gives the introduction as an example.Source: A. Rationale · p. 9
  • The main paper can explicitly forward-reference supplementary subsections, such as a particular experiment.Source: A. Rationale · p. 9
  • When submitted to arXiv, the compiled supplement is included at the end of the paper.Source: A. Rationale · p. 9
  • The supplementary pages can be split from the main paper using Preview, Adobe Acrobat, or command-line tools.The passage specifies Preview on macOS and Adobe Acrobat on all operating systems.Source: A. Rationale · p. 9

B. Realted Work

Prior image-editing methods focus on single images, while existing consistency and video-based approaches do not address group editing across diverse static views. GroupEditing treats image groups as pseudo-video and combines video priors with explicit correspondences.

Generative models for image editing

  • Diffusion editing methods include zero-shot PnP, Prompt2Prompt [46], and MasaCtrl [7], as well as trained ControlNet [74] and T2I-Adapter [47], but target single images.Consistency methods based on propagation [65] or attention correspondences [7] [46] are limited to small inputs and struggle with complex geometric variation, partly because paired training data are scarce.Source: B. Realted Work · p. 9

Video prior for editing task

  • Video-based editing uses coherent-frame curation in Bagel [16], UniReal [12], and OmniGen [67], or inference-time guidance in Frame2Frame [50] and ChronoEdit [66].These approaches enhance single-image quality or short-range consistency but do not solve group editing across diverse static views.Source: B. Realted Work · p. 9
  • GroupEditing reframes related images as pseudo-video frames, inheriting video-model consistency priors while adding explicit correspondences for reliable alignment across diverse views.The approach aims to use large-scale video models' spatio-temporal coherence and geometric priors for unified editing.Source: B. Realted Work · pp. 9, 15

C. More cases · D. Demo

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D. Demo

  • The demo video and project page are provided in the file for further illustration.The subsection recommends watching the demo video.Source: D. Demo · p. 15
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