Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for various image generation and editing tasks, facilitating the synthesis of visual content in an unconditional or input-conditional manner. The core idea behind them is learning to reverse the process of gradually adding noise to images, allowing them to generate high-quality samples from a complex distribution. In this survey, we provide an exhaustive overview of existing methods using diffusion models for image editing, covering both theoretical and practical aspects in the field. We delve into a thorough analysis and categorization of these works from multiple perspectives, including learning strategies, user-input conditions, and the array of specific editing tasks that can be accomplished. In addition, we pay special attention to image inpainting and outpainting, and explore both earlier traditional context-driven and current multimodal conditional methods, offering a comprehensive analysis of their methodologies. To further evaluate the performance of text-guided image editing algorithms, we propose a systematic benchmark, EditEval, featuring an innovative metric, LMM Score. Finally, we address current limitations and envision some potential directions for future research. The accompanying repository is released at https://github.com/SiatMMLab/Awesome-Diffusion-Model-Based-Image-Editing-Methods.

调查论文对使用扩散模型进行图像编辑的现有方法进行了全面的概述，包括理论和实践方面，并从多个角度对这些作品进行了彻底分析和分类，介绍了学习策略、用户输入条件以及可以实现的特定编辑任务的组合。此外，对图像修复和扩展进行了特别关注，并探讨了早期的传统上下文驱动方法和当前的多模态条件方法，全面分析了它们的方法论。最后，讨论当前的限制并展望未来的研究方向。

基于扩散模型的图像编辑：一项综述