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Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

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Illumination effects in images, specifically cast shadows and shading, have been shown to decrease the performance of deep neural networks on a large number of vision-based detection, recognition and segmentation tasks in urban driving…

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We address the challenge of relighting a single image or video, a task that demands precise scene intrinsic understanding and high-quality light transport synthesis. Existing end-to-end relighting models are often limited by the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kai He , Ruofan Liang , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Nandita Vijaykumar , Alexander Keller , Sanja Fidler , Igor Gilitschenski , Zan Gojcic , Zian Wang

We introduce OpenIllumination, a real-world dataset containing over 108K images of 64 objects with diverse materials, captured under 72 camera views and a large number of different illuminations. For each image in the dataset, we provide…

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We present SILT, a Self-supervised Implicit Lighting Transfer method. Unlike previous research on scene relighting, we do not seek to apply arbitrary new lighting configurations to a given scene. Instead, we wish to transfer the lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Nikolina Kubiak , Armin Mustafa , Graeme Phillipson , Stephen Jolly , Simon Hadfield

Low-light videos often exhibit spatiotemporally incoherent noise, compromising visibility and degrading performance in computer vision applications. A major challenge for enhancing such content using deep learning lies in the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ruirui Lin , Guoxi Huang , Joanne Lin , Qi Sun , Alexandra Malyugina , David R Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Recent advances have shown that large-scale video diffusion models can be repurposed as neural renderers by first decomposing videos into intrinsic scene representations and then performing forward rendering under novel illumination. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Weiqing Xiao , Hong Li , Xiuyu Yang , Houyuan Chen , Wenyi Li , Tianqi Liu , Shaocong Xu , Chongjie Ye , Hao Zhao , Beibei Wang

Full-image relighting remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of collecting large-scale structured paired data, the difficulty of maintaining physical plausibility, and the limited generalizability imposed by data-driven priors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhexin Liang , Zhaoxi Chen , Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Tengfei Wang , Xingang Pan

We introduce LightIt, a method for explicit illumination control for image generation. Recent generative methods lack lighting control, which is crucial to numerous artistic aspects of image generation such as setting the overall mood or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Peter Kocsis , Julien Philip , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Matthias Nießner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy

Recent single-image relighting methods, powered by advanced generative models, have achieved impressive photorealism on synthetic benchmarks. However, their effectiveness in the complex visual landscape of the real world remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Lezhong Wang , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Siavash Bigdeli , Jeppe Revall Frisvad

Existing image editing models struggle to meet real-world demands. Despite excelling in academic benchmarks, they have yet to be widely adopted for real user needs. Datasets that power these models use artificial edits, lacking the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Peter Sushko , Ayana Bharadwaj , Zhi Yang Lim , Vasily Ilin , Ben Caffee , Dongping Chen , Mohammadreza Salehi , Cheng-Yu Hsieh , Ranjay Krishna

Recent advances in diffusion models enable high-quality video generation and editing, but precise relighting with consistent video contents, which is critical for shaping scene atmosphere and viewer attention, remains unexplored. Mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Weikang Bian , Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Jianhong Bai , Qinghe Wang , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Hongsheng Li

Removing noise from images is a challenging and fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Images captured by modern cameras are inevitably degraded by noise which limits the accuracy of any quantitative measurements on those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nikhil Verma , Deepkamal Kaur , Lydia Chau

Estimating scene lighting from a single image or video remains a longstanding challenge in computer vision and graphics. Learning-based approaches are constrained by the scarcity of ground-truth HDR environment maps, which are expensive to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ruofan Liang , Kai He , Zan Gojcic , Igor Gilitschenski , Sanja Fidler , Nandita Vijaykumar , Zian Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation and editing, with recent advancements enabling albedo-preserving image relighting. However, applying these models to video relighting remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ye Fang , Zeyi Sun , Shangzhan Zhang , Tong Wu , Yinghao Xu , Pan Zhang , Jiaqi Wang , Gordon Wetzstein , Dahua Lin

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Mixed Reality scene relighting, where virtual changes to lighting conditions realistically interact with physical objects, producing authentic illumination and shadows, can be used in a variety of applications. One such application in real…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hanwen Zhao , John Akers , Baback Elmieh , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Ye Yu , Abhimitra Meka , Mohamed Elgharib , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt , William A. P. Smith

Vision Transformers (ViT) have achieved remarkable success in large-scale image recognition. They split every 2D image into a fixed number of patches, each of which is treated as a token. Generally, representing an image with more tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yulin Wang , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Zeyi Huang , Gao Huang

We propose a new and completely data-driven approach for generating a photo-consistent image transform. We show that simple classical algorithms which operate in the transform domain become extremely resilient to illumination changes. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Damian Kaliroff , Guy Gilboa