ClickRemoval: An Interactive Open-Source Tool for Object Removal in Diffusion Models

TL;DR

ClickRemoval is an open-source interactive tool that enables precise object removal in images using only user clicks, leveraging pretrained diffusion models without extra training or masks.

Contribution

It introduces a novel click-based interactive method for object removal that localizes targets and restores backgrounds without additional training or manual masks.

Findings

Achieves competitive results in quantitative metrics.

Receives positive feedback in user studies.

Operates without extra training or manual masks.

Abstract

Existing object removal tools often rely on manual masks or text prompts, making precise removal difficult for non-expert users in complex scenes and often leading to incomplete removal or unnatural background completion. To address this issue, we present ClickRemoval, an open-source interactive object removal tool built on pretrained Stable Diffusion models and driven solely by user clicks. Without additional training, hand-drawn masks, or text descriptions, ClickRemoval localizes target objects and restores the background through self-attention modulation during denoising. Experiments show that ClickRemoval achieves competitive results across quantitative metrics and user studies. We release a complete software package at https://github.com/zld-make/ClickRemoval under the Apache-2.0 license.