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Burak Can Biner

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arXiv2026

ImIR: Image-Instruction Tuning for All-in-One Image Restoration

Degradations vary widely across images, so a practical restoration system has to handle many degradation types with one model. A recent and effective recipe adapts a large pretrained image-editing model to restoration using a small low-rank adapter with a text prompt. We replace that prompt with an instruction derived from the degraded image itself. The image reaches the editor through two paths: its structure comes from the model's VAE, and its semantic instruction comes from a lightweight token mapper that shifts the degraded image's vision-language embedding toward the embedding a clean image would produce. Because the instruction is a continuous vector, scaling it yields a family of valid restorations for tasks whose target is not unique, such as low-light enhancement. We adapt one Qwen-Image-Edit model to six tasks with a single adapter trained in about three hours on one GPU. The image instruction outperforms text conditioning under a matched comparison, and it supports task agnostic restoration without a degradation label, which the text variant does not.

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arXiv2026

Edit2Restore:Few-Shot Image Restoration via Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Pre-trained Editing Models

Image restoration has traditionally required training specialized models on thousands of paired examples per degradation type. Large pre-trained text-conditioned image editing models encode rich priors about image structure, quality, and degradation, yet we find that this knowledge does not, on its own, make them restorers: state-of-the-art editing models largely fail at restoration in the zero-shot regime. We show that what these priors lack is not capability but direction, and that a small amount of parameter-efficient adaptation supplies it. Fine-tuning LoRA adapters on FLUX.1 Kontext, a 12B-parameter flow matching model for image-to-image translation, with only 32--128 paired images per task and guided by simple text prompts, we turn a mediocre zero-shot editor into a competitive restorer. A single unified adapter, conditioned on task-specific prompts, handles five diverse degradations. Despite using three to four orders of magnitude less data, our few-shot model surpasses a recent restoration baseline trained on over a million curated pairs on the majority of perceptual and distribution-level metrics, on which we evaluate in keeping with our focus on perceptual rather than pixel-fidelity quality. Through comprehensive studies, we analyze the impact of training-set size, the trade-off between task-specific and unified multi-task adapters, the effect of text encoder adaptation, and zero-shot baseline performance, establishing pre-trained editing models as a compelling, data-efficient foundation for few-shot, prompt-guided image restoration.

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arXiv2026

Leveraging Image Editing Foundation Models for Data-Efficient CT Metal Artifact Reduction

Metal artifacts from high-attenuation implants severely degrade CT image quality, obscuring critical anatomical structures and posing a challenge for standard deep learning methods that require extensive paired training data. We propose a paradigm shift: reframing artifact reduction as an in-context reasoning task by adapting a general-purpose vision-language diffusion foundation model via parameter-efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). By leveraging rich visual priors, our approach achieves effective artifact suppression with only 16 to 128 paired training examples reducing data requirements by two orders of magnitude. Crucially, we demonstrate that domain adaptation is essential for hallucination mitigation; without it, foundation models interpret streak artifacts as erroneous natural objects (e.g., waffles or petri dishes). To ground the restoration, we propose a multi-reference conditioning strategy where clean anatomical exemplars from unrelated subjects are provided alongside the corrupted input, enabling the model to exploit category-specific context to infer uncorrupted anatomy. Extensive evaluation on the AAPM CT-MAR benchmark demonstrates that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on perceptual and radiological-feature metrics . This work establishes that foundation models, when appropriately adapted, offer a scalable alternative for interpretable, data-efficient medical image reconstruction. Code is available at https://github.com/ahmetemirdagi/CT-EditMAR.

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arXiv2026

Edit2Interp: Adapting Image Foundation Models from Spatial Editing to Video Frame Interpolation with Few-Shot Learning

Pre-trained image editing models exhibit strong spatial reasoning and object-aware transformation capabilities acquired from billions of image-text pairs, yet they possess no explicit temporal modeling. This paper demonstrates that these spatial priors can be repurposed to unlock temporal synthesis capabilities through minimal adaptation - without introducing any video-specific architecture or motion estimation modules. We show that a large image editing model (Qwen-Image-Edit), originally designed solely for static instruction-based edits, can be adapted for Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) using only 64-256 training samples via Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our core contribution is revealing that the model's inherent understanding of "how objects transform" in static scenes contains latent temporal reasoning that can be activated through few-shot fine-tuning. While the baseline model completely fails at producing coherent intermediate frames, our parameter-efficient adaptation successfully unlocks its interpolation capability. Rather than competing with task-specific VFI methods trained from scratch on massive datasets, our work establishes that foundation image editing models possess untapped potential for temporal tasks, offering a data-efficient pathway for video synthesis in resource-constrained scenarios. This bridges the gap between image manipulation and video understanding, suggesting that spatial and temporal reasoning may be more intertwined in foundation models than previously recognized

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arXiv2024

SonicDiffusion: Audio-Driven Image Generation and Editing with Pretrained Diffusion Models

We are witnessing a revolution in conditional image synthesis with the recent success of large scale text-to-image generation methods. This success also opens up new opportunities in controlling the generation and editing process using multi-modal input. While spatial control using cues such as depth, sketch, and other images has attracted a lot of research, we argue that another equally effective modality is audio since sound and sight are two main components of human perception. Hence, we propose a method to enable audio-conditioning in large scale image diffusion models. Our method first maps features obtained from audio clips to tokens that can be injected into the diffusion model in a fashion similar to text tokens. We introduce additional audio-image cross attention layers which we finetune while freezing the weights of the original layers of the diffusion model. In addition to audio conditioned image generation, our method can also be utilized in conjuction with diffusion based editing methods to enable audio conditioned image editing. We demonstrate our method on a wide range of audio and image datasets. We perform extensive comparisons with recent methods and show favorable performance.

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