STEPS: Scene Text Editing with Preserved Style Using Diffusion and Contrastive Style Encoding

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arXiv:2609.38636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Scene Text Editing with Preserved Style (STEPS), a novel diffusion model architecture for quality text replacement in images. Scene Text Editing (STE), also known as Visual Text Editing, consists of changing the textual content in an image while conserving the original style, e.g. font, colors, orientation, background, etc. STEPS advances the state of the art in STE through directed focus on improved style preservation. We introduce