ReVision: Reprogramming Image Generators for Dense Visual Perception

Abstract

Recent image generators exhibit rich visual priors that can support dense visual perception. However, existing approaches typically encode multiple perception tasks into a shared parameterization, making joint training sensitive to the mixture and weighting of heterogeneous data and prone to cross-task interference. To address this issue, we introduce ReVision, an instruction-conditioned parameter generation framework built on a frozen multimodal understanding model and a frozen image generator. Given an image and a free-form instruction, the understanding model jointly encodes them into a multimodal image--instruction representation, which a trainable parameter generator maps to transient low-rank updates for the generator. Each image--instruction pair induces a distinct set of transient prediction parameters, enabling instance-specific adaptation while both pretrained backbones remain unchanged. ReVision requires no task-specific heads, explicit task identifiers, or stored adapters. A shared RGB output interface unifies segmentation, depth estimation, and surface-normal prediction. Across diverse dense prediction benchmarks, ReVision achieves competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods while supporting flexible task specification through natural-language instructions. Our analysis further reveals substantial gradient disagreement across tasks, highlighting the conflict introduced when heterogeneous objectives share a single parameterization. Meanwhile, the generated updates exhibit structured task- and input-dependent organization in weight space, further validating instance-level parameter generation for multi-task perception.