AAAI2026

NoMoColor: Unified Noise Modulation for Enhanced Diffusion-based Image Colorization (Student Abstract)

Ankan Deria, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Murari Mondal, Sudipta Roy

Abstract

We present a language-based noise modulation module for diffusion models that improves image color generation under textual guidance. Unlike standard approaches that inject noise uniformly, our method leverages semantic cues from text to selectively control the noise injection process, preserving local details and enhancing color accuracy even when descriptions are ambiguous or incomplete. Applied to language guided image colorization, this targeted modulation leads to more faithful and visually consistent results. The proposed module is lightweight, generalizable, and can be integrated into existing diffusion pipelines, offering a simple yet effective step toward more controllable text-to-image generation.