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PhotoQuilt: Training-Free Arbitrary-Resolution Photomosaics via Bootstrapped Tiled Denoising

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PhotoQuilt: Training-Free Arbitrary-Resolution Photomosaics via Bootstrapped Tiled Denoising

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PhotoQuilt is a training-free framework that generates high-resolution photomosaics by combining global layout composition with separate tile generation in latent space, overcoming limitations of diffusion models in balancing local detail and global structure.

Photomosaics are large images whose local regions are seen as independent tiles while their overall arrangement forms a coherent scene. Generating them at high resolution, with every tile convincing in its own right, is computationally expensive, since the canvas must hold many detailed tiles at once. We present PhotoQuilt, a training-free framework that generates photomosaics at arbitrary resolution. Diffusion models struggle to satisfy both scales at once, as direct high-resolution generation is costly and tends toward one smooth image rather than a mosaic, while patch-based tiling keeps local detail but loses global structure. PhotoQuilt resolves this with a bootstrapped tiled denoising procedure. We first produce a global composition at low resolution to fix the layout, then upscale it in latent space and re-inject noise to restore generative capacity. Denoising proceeds within fixed tiles, so each forms its own image while the shared global structure holds them in one layout. Because tile generation is handled separately, PhotoQuilt scales to large canvases without quadratic attention cost. Experiments show that PhotoQuilt outperforms current baselines on both global structure and local realism.

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TLDR: PhotoQuilt is a training-free way to make photomosaics, big images where each tile is a convincing little picture on its own, yet together they form a coherent scene. It sketches the whole layout at low resolution first, then upscales and denoises each tile on its own, so tiles get sharp detail while staying anchored to the global structure. Because tiles are handled separately, it scales to huge canvases cheaply and beats prior methods on both the big picture and the fine detail.

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Interesting work!!
But now we need a project with the opposite effect—one where all the Tileds are consistent and make sense in relation to each other, for editing ultra-high-resolution images! =)

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