@@ -30,14 +30,17 @@ class VaeImageProcessor(ConfigMixin):
 
     Args:
         do_resize (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
-            Whether to downscale the image's (height, width) dimensions to multiples of `vae_scale_factor`.
+            Whether to downscale the image's (height, width) dimensions to multiples of `vae_scale_factor`. Can accept
+            `height` and `width` arguments from `preprocess` method
         vae_scale_factor (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `8`):
             VAE scale factor. If `do_resize` is True, the image will be automatically resized to multiples of this
             factor.
         resample (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `lanczos`):
             Resampling filter to use when resizing the image.
         do_normalize (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
             Whether to normalize the image to [-1,1]
+        do_convert_rgb (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to be `False`):
+            Whether to convert the images to RGB format.
     """
 
     config_name = CONFIG_NAME
@@ -49,11 +52,12 @@ def __init__(
         vae_scale_factor: int = 8,
         resample: str = "lanczos",
         do_normalize: bool = True,
+        do_convert_rgb: bool = False,
     ):
         super().__init__()
 
     @staticmethod
-    def numpy_to_pil(images):
+    def numpy_to_pil(images: np.ndarray) -> PIL.Image.Image:
         """
         Convert a numpy image or a batch of images to a PIL image.
         """
@@ -69,7 +73,19 @@ def numpy_to_pil(images):
         return pil_images
 
     @staticmethod
-    def numpy_to_pt(images):
+    def pil_to_numpy(images: Union[List[PIL.Image.Image], PIL.Image.Image]) -> np.ndarray:
+        """
+        Convert a PIL image or a list of PIL images to numpy arrays.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(images, list):
+            images = [images]
+        images = [np.array(image).astype(np.float32) / 255.0 for image in images]
+        images = np.stack(images, axis=0)
+
+        return images
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def numpy_to_pt(images: np.ndarray) -> torch.FloatTensor:
         """
         Convert a numpy image to a pytorch tensor
         """
@@ -80,7 +96,7 @@ def numpy_to_pt(images):
         return images
 
     @staticmethod
-    def pt_to_numpy(images):
+    def pt_to_numpy(images: torch.FloatTensor) -> np.ndarray:
         """
         Convert a pytorch tensor to a numpy image
         """
@@ -101,18 +117,39 @@ def denormalize(images):
         """
         return (images / 2 + 0.5).clamp(0, 1)
 
-    def resize(self, images: PIL.Image.Image) -> PIL.Image.Image:
+    @staticmethod
+    def convert_to_rgb(image: PIL.Image.Image) -> PIL.Image.Image:
+        """
+        Converts an image to RGB format.
+        """
+        image = image.convert("RGB")
+        return image
+
+    def resize(
+        self,
+        image: PIL.Image.Image,
+        height: Optional[int] = None,
+        width: Optional[int] = None,
+    ) -> PIL.Image.Image:
         """
         Resize a PIL image. Both height and width will be downscaled to the next integer multiple of `vae_scale_factor`
         """
-        w, h = images.size
-        w, h = (x - x % self.config.vae_scale_factor for x in (w, h))  # resize to integer multiple of vae_scale_factor
-        images = images.resize((w, h), resample=PIL_INTERPOLATION[self.config.resample])
-        return images
+        if height is None:
+            height = image.height
+        if width is None:
+            width = image.width
+
+        width, height = (
+            x - x % self.config.vae_scale_factor for x in (width, height)
+        )  # resize to integer multiple of vae_scale_factor
+        image = image.resize((width, height), resample=PIL_INTERPOLATION[self.config.resample])
+        return image
 
     def preprocess(
         self,
         image: Union[torch.FloatTensor, PIL.Image.Image, np.ndarray],
+        height: Optional[int] = None,
+        width: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         """
         Preprocess the image input, accepted formats are PIL images, numpy arrays or pytorch tensors"
@@ -126,10 +163,11 @@ def preprocess(
             )
 
         if isinstance(image[0], PIL.Image.Image):
+            if self.config.do_convert_rgb:
+                image = [self.convert_to_rgb(i) for i in image]
             if self.config.do_resize:
-                image = [self.resize(i) for i in image]
-            image = [np.array(i).astype(np.float32) / 255.0 for i in image]
-            image = np.stack(image, axis=0)  # to np
+                image = [self.resize(i, height, width) for i in image]
+            image = self.pil_to_numpy(image)  # to np
             image = self.numpy_to_pt(image)  # to pt
 
         elif isinstance(image[0], np.ndarray):
@@ -146,7 +184,12 @@ def preprocess(
 
         elif isinstance(image[0], torch.Tensor):
             image = torch.cat(image, axis=0) if image[0].ndim == 4 else torch.stack(image, axis=0)
-            _, _, height, width = image.shape
+            _, channel, height, width = image.shape
+
+            # don't need any preprocess if the image is latents
+            if channel == 4:
+                return image
+
             if self.config.do_resize and (
                 height % self.config.vae_scale_factor != 0 or width % self.config.vae_scale_factor != 0
             ):
 
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
 
 # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion_img2img.preprocess
 def preprocess(image):
+    warnings.warn(
+        "The preprocess method is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please"
+        " use VaeImageProcessor.preprocess instead",
+        FutureWarning,
+    )
     if isinstance(image, torch.Tensor):
         return image
     elif isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
@@ -538,21 +543,26 @@ def prepare_latents(self, image, timestep, batch_size, num_images_per_prompt, dt
         image = image.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
 
         batch_size = batch_size * num_images_per_prompt
-        if isinstance(generator, list) and len(generator) != batch_size:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"You have passed a list of generators of length {len(generator)}, but requested an effective batch"
-                f" size of {batch_size}. Make sure the batch size matches the length of the generators."
-            )
 
-        if isinstance(generator, list):
-            init_latents = [
-                self.vae.encode(image[i : i + 1]).latent_dist.sample(generator[i]) for i in range(batch_size)
-            ]
-            init_latents = torch.cat(init_latents, dim=0)
+        if image.shape[1] == 4:
+            init_latents = image
+
         else:
-            init_latents = self.vae.encode(image).latent_dist.sample(generator)
+            if isinstance(generator, list) and len(generator) != batch_size:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"You have passed a list of generators of length {len(generator)}, but requested an effective"
+                    f" batch size of {batch_size}. Make sure the batch size matches the length of the generators."
+                )
+
+            elif isinstance(generator, list):
+                init_latents = [
+                    self.vae.encode(image[i : i + 1]).latent_dist.sample(generator[i]) for i in range(batch_size)
+                ]
+                init_latents = torch.cat(init_latents, dim=0)
+            else:
+                init_latents = self.vae.encode(image).latent_dist.sample(generator)
 
-        init_latents = self.vae.config.scaling_factor * init_latents
+            init_latents = self.vae.config.scaling_factor * init_latents
 
         if batch_size > init_latents.shape[0] and batch_size % init_latents.shape[0] == 0:
             # expand init_latents for batch_size
@@ -586,7 +596,14 @@ def prepare_latents(self, image, timestep, batch_size, num_images_per_prompt, dt
     def __call__(
         self,
         prompt: Union[str, List[str]] = None,
-        image: Union[torch.FloatTensor, PIL.Image.Image] = None,
+        image: Union[
+            torch.FloatTensor,
+            PIL.Image.Image,
+            np.ndarray,
+            List[torch.FloatTensor],
+            List[PIL.Image.Image],
+            List[np.ndarray],
+        ] = None,
         strength: float = 0.8,
         num_inference_steps: Optional[int] = 50,
         guidance_scale: Optional[float] = 7.5,
@@ -609,9 +626,10 @@ def __call__(
             prompt (`str` or `List[str]`, *optional*):
                 The prompt or prompts to guide the image generation. If not defined, one has to pass `prompt_embeds`.
                 instead.
-            image (`torch.FloatTensor` or `PIL.Image.Image`):
+            image (`torch.FloatTensor`, `PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray`, `List[torch.FloatTensor]`, `List[PIL.Image.Image]`, or `List[np.ndarray]`):
                 `Image`, or tensor representing an image batch, that will be used as the starting point for the
-                process.
+                process. Can also accpet image latents as `image`, if passing latents directly, it will not be encoded
+                again.
             strength (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 0.8):
                 Conceptually, indicates how much to transform the reference `image`. Must be between 0 and 1. `image`
                 will be used as a starting point, adding more noise to it the larger the `strength`. The number of