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Image relighting has emerged as a problem of significant research interest inspired by augmented reality applications. Physics-based traditional methods, as well as black box deep learning models, have been developed. The existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Amirsaeed Yazdani , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

We introduce light diffusion, a novel method to improve lighting in portraits, softening harsh shadows and specular highlights while preserving overall scene illumination. Inspired by professional photographers' diffusers and scrims, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 David Futschik , Kelvin Ritland , James Vecore , Sean Fanello , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Brian Curless , Daniel Sýkora , Rohit Pandey

The modern supervised approaches for human image relighting rely on training data generated from 3D human models. However, such datasets are often small (e.g., Light Stage data with a small number of individuals) or limited to diffuse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Daichi Tajima , Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

Accurate 3D objects relighting in diverse unseen environments is crucial for realistic virtual object placement. Due to the albedo-lighting ambiguity, existing methods often fall short in producing faithful relights. Without proper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jingzhi Li , Zongwei Wu , Eduard Zamfir , Radu Timofte

The light stage has been widely used in computer graphics for the past two decades, primarily to enable the relighting of human faces. By capturing the appearance of the human subject under different light sources, one obtains the light…

Relighting is an essential step in realistically transferring objects from a captured image into another environment. For example, authentic telepresence in Augmented Reality requires faces to be displayed and relit consistent with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Thomas Nestmeyer , Jean-François Lalonde , Iain Matthews , Andreas M. Lehrmann

Inverse rendering of outdoor scenes from unconstrained image collections is a challenging task, particularly illumination/albedo ambiguities and occlusion of the illumination environment (shadowing) caused by geometry. However, there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 James A. D. Gardner , Evgenii Kashin , Bernhard Egger , William A. P. Smith

Intrinsic decomposition from a single image is a highly challenging task, due to its inherent ambiguity and the scarcity of training data. In contrast to traditional fully supervised learning approaches, in this paper we propose learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Michael Janner , Jiajun Wu , Tejas D. Kulkarni , Ilker Yildirim , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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

Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ke Wang , Michaël Gharbi , He Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Eli Shechtman

We introduce a neural relighting algorithm for captured indoors scenes, that allows interactive free-viewpoint navigation. Our method allows illumination to be changed synthetically, while coherently rendering cast shadows and complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Julien Philip , Sébastien Morgenthaler , Michaël Gharbi , George Drettakis

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

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

Despite significant advancements in network-based image harmonization techniques, there still exists a domain disparity between typical training pairs and real-world composites encountered during inference. Most existing methods are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Chris Careaga , S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Yağız Aksoy

Retrieving accurate 3D reconstructions of objects from the way they reflect light is a very challenging task in computer vision. Despite more than four decades since the definition of the Photometric Stereo problem, most of the literature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

We present a neural rendering framework for simultaneous view synthesis and appearance editing of a scene from multi-view images captured under known environment illumination. Existing approaches either achieve view synthesis alone or view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Pulkit Gera , Aakash KT , Dhawal Sirikonda , Parikshit Sakurikar , P. J. Narayanan

Deep learning based rendering has achieved major improvements in photo-realistic image synthesis, with potential applications including visual effects in movies and photo-realistic scene building in video games. However, a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zhuo He , Paul Henderson , Nicolas Pugeault

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

Relighting of human images has various applications in image synthesis. For relighting, we must infer albedo, shape, and illumination from a human portrait. Previous techniques rely on human faces for this inference, based on spherical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

We present a method for relighting 3D reconstructions of large room-scale environments. Existing solutions for 3D scene relighting often require solving under-determined or ill-conditioned inverse rendering problems, and are as such unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaoyan Xing , Philipp Henzler , Junhwa Hur , Runze Li , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin