  Image editing approaches with diffusion models have been rapidly developed,
yet their applicability are subject to requirements such as specific editing
types (e.g., foreground or background object editing, style transfer), multiple
conditions (e.g., mask, sketch, caption), and time consuming fine-tuning of
diffusion models. For alleviating these limitations and realizing efficient
real image editing, we propose a novel editing technique that only requires an
input image and target text for various editing types including non-rigid edits
without fine-tuning diffusion model. Our method contains three novelties:(I)
Target-text Inversion Schedule (TTIS) is designed to fine-tune the input target
text embedding to achieve fast image reconstruction without image caption and
acceleration of convergence.(II) Progressive Transition Scheme applies
progressive linear interpolation between target text embedding and its
fine-tuned version to generate transition embedding for maintaining non-rigid
editing capability.(III) Balanced Attention Module (BAM) balances the tradeoff
between textual description and image semantics.By the means of combining
self-attention map from reconstruction process and cross-attention map from
transition process, the guidance of target text embeddings in diffusion process
is optimized.In order to demonstrate editing capability, effectiveness and
efficiency of the proposed BARET, we have conducted extensive qualitative and
quantitative experiments. Moreover, results derived from user study and
ablation study further prove the superiority over other methods.
