Overview

Image editing evaluation asks whether an image makes the requested change, preserves everything else, and remains visually coherent across tasks from local retouching to multi-turn and structured-content edits. Benchmarks use human ratings, paired references, controlled edits with pixel- or region-level ground truth, and specialized tests for text, geometry, identity, reasoning, and physical plausibility. Automatic methods range from image-similarity and OCR measures to vision-language model judges, interpretable rubrics, reward models, and localized defect scoring, often checked against human judgments. A central challenge is that holistic or automated scores can miss subtle unintended changes and task-specific errors, while exact metrics do not transfer across settings; evaluation must balance fine-grained diagnosis with scalable human alignment.

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92 papers16 papers in the last four weeks, up 300% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. MoI-Bench: A Benchmark for Image Generation and Editing on Mobile Devices

    Oct 27, 2026Kailai Feng, Haoxiang Rao, Yuxiang Wei +5Image Editing EvaluationImage Generation Evaluation

  2. CropReward: A Human-Preference Benchmark and Reward Model for Aesthetic Image Cropping

    Oct 25, 2026Xiangfei Sheng, Xiaofeng Pan, Leida Li +4Reward ModelingHuman Preference Modeling

  3. ABACUS: A Benchmark for Image Editing Models to Assess Object Category and Counting Under Scene Conservation

    Oct 20, 2026Aymen Lassoued, Angelique Loesch, Romaric AudigierImage Editing EvaluationImage Editing

  4. Only Means Only: what a harmonization benchmark score averages over

    Oct 18, 2026Imad Buljić, Delaida MuminovićImage Editing EvaluationData Leakage

  5. MTEdit: Packed Trajectories Beat Rollouts for Multi-Turn Image Editing

    Oct 16, 2026Houyuan Chen, Fanzhou Wang, Xiangyu Fan +8Multi-Turn Image EditingImage Editing

  6. DuplexBridge: Coordinating Understanding and Generation for Unified Image Editing

    Oct 13, 2026Yidi Liu, Jie Xiao, Chaojie Mao +2Image EditingText-Guided Image Editing

  7. Pixels or Code? Benchmarking Instruction-Guided Visual Artifact Operation

    Oct 12, 2026Shun Guo, Shuizhou Shi, Boao Wang +4Image Editing EvaluationText-Guided Image Editing

  8. SliderEdit++: Improved Slider Trajectories in Instruction-Based Image Editing

    Oct 9, 2026Arman Zarei, Sayan Nag, Bryan Wang +5Image EditingText-Guided Image Editing

  9. Reasoning-Informed Visual Editing

    Oct 8, 2026Xue Yang, Peiyuan Zhang, Yilun Zhu +12Image EditingImage Editing Evaluation

  10. ScribbleEdit: A Benchmark for Scribble-Only Image Editing

    Oct 7, 2026Jie Ren, Hao Kang, Kai Guo +9Image EditingImage Editing Evaluation

  11. UniSlider: Perceptually Uniform Sliders for Continuous Image Editing

    Oct 5, 2026David Serrano-Lozano, Duygu Ceylan, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy +3Image Editing EvaluationDiffusion-Based Image Editing

  12. Beyond Plausibility: Verifiable Fine-Grained Image Editing on Structured Assets

    Oct 3, 2026Muyao Wang, Chen Zhu, Shiqi Yang +2Image EditingImage Editing Evaluation

  13. Do MLLM Judges Judge the Edit? Auditing Bias in Image Editing Evaluation with Verified Quality Preservation

    Oct 1, 2026Yuan Huang, Zirui Song, Xiuying ChenVLM RobustnessLLM-as-a-Judge

  14. VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    Oct 1, 2026Xianda Du, Max Ku, Weiming Ren +5VLM EvaluationImage Editing Evaluation

  15. SolveEdit: Benchmarking Visual Problem Solving in Generative Models

    Sep 28, 2026Wenjie Shu, Yexin Liu, Harold Haodong Chen +9Image Editing EvaluationVisual Reasoning

  16. InfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing

    Sep 27, 2026Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang +6Image Editing EvaluationText-Guided Image Editing

  17. KwaiMind Technical Report

    Sep 22, 2026Boheng Zhang, Fan Yang, Jia Sun +14Image Editing EvaluationDiffusion-Based Image Editing

  18. GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing

    Sep 1, 2026Lingxiao Li, Max Whitton, Ledell Wu +1Image Editing EvaluationImage Generation

  19. A Large-scale Evaluation of Text-guided Models for Facial Editing

    Aug 28, 2026Rahul Nair, Saurav Pandit, Hannah KernerText-Guided Image EditingImage Editing

  20. RubricRM: Generative Reward Modeling via Dynamic Rubrics for Image Generation and Editing

    Aug 27, 2026Zijian Kan, Wei Wang, Long Luo +6Reward ModelingMultimodal Reward Modeling

  21. MatReplace: A Reference-Free, Conditioning-Aligned Benchmark for Material Replacement in Interior Scenes

    Aug 25, 2026Mingzhe Du, Thong Thanh Nguyen, Nguyen Tran Cong Duy +2Image Editing EvaluationImage Generation

  22. Unlocking the Potential of Image Editing via Concept Scaling and Dense Supervision

    Aug 17, 2026Long Cui, Xiaoqian Liu, Qi Qin +4Image EditingDiffusion-Based Image Editing

  23. SI-Edit: Toward Sketch-Instruction Guided Local Image Editing with Pixel-Level Precision

    Aug 10, 2026Weixin Ye, Wei Wang, Hongguang Zhu +1Image Editing EvaluationText-Guided Image Editing

  24. MIEScore: Human-Aligned Evaluation for Multi-Source Image Editing

    Aug 3, 2026Zitong Xu, Huiyu Duan, Xinyun Zhang +7Image Editing EvaluationText-Guided Image Editing

  25. MDTD-ArtIR: Benchmarking Image Editing and Restoration Models for Art Image Restoration under Texture-Overlay Degradations

    Aug 1, 2026Mridula Vijendran, Shuang Chen, Hubert P. H. ShumImage Editing EvaluationImage Restoration