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GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing

GenScale benchmarks relative object scale in image generation and editing, finding current models unreliable, while Rescale improves scale plausibility via localized correction.

Lingxiao Li, Max Whitton, Ledell Wu, Boqing Gong

Published 2026Atlanta Poster Session 6 · Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM local time · Hall C1arXiv ↗OpenReview ↗

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Abstract

Modern image generation and editing systems can produce photorealistic, prompt-aligned images, but still often render familiar objects at implausible relative sizes. To measure this failure mode, we introduce GenScale, a benchmark and evaluation protocol for real-world relative object scale in image generation and editing. GenScale contains 900 image-level entries and 1,643 pairwise anchor-target scale relations across common-object generation, human-product generation with metric dimensions, and scale correction from failed generations. We further design a human-calibrated ordinal judge for scalable pairwise scale evaluation. Last but not the least, we introduce Rescale, a model-agnostic post-processing agent for localized scale correction without modifying the source generator. Experiments reveal that state-of-the-art image generators and editors cannot reliably observe relative scale yet, while Rescale consistently improves scale plausibility across generated and edited images. Together, GenScale establishes relative object scale as a distinct, measurable, and actionable capability for image generation systems.