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Manipulating the illumination of a 3D scene within a single image represents a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. This problem has traditionally been addressed using inverse rendering techniques, which involve explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shrisha Bharadwaj , Haiwen Feng , Giorgio Becherini , Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya , Michael J. Black

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

Subsurface scattering (SSS) gives translucent materials -- such as wax, jade, marble, and skin -- their characteristic soft shadows, color bleeding, and diffuse glow. Modeling these effects in neural rendering remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Guillermo Figueroa-Araneda , Iris Diana Jimenez , Florian Hofherr , Manny Ko , Hector Andrade-Loarca , Daniel Cremers

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

Volumetric video relighting is essential for bringing captured performances into virtual worlds, but current approaches struggle to deliver temporally stable, production-ready results. Diffusion-based intrinsic decomposition methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Elisabeth Jüttner , Janelle Pfeifer , Leona Krath , Stefan Korfhage , Hannah Dröge , Matthias B. Hullin , Markus Plack

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown impressive results for the novel view synthesis task, where lighting is assumed to be fixed. However, creating relightable 3D assets, especially for objects with ill-defined shapes (fur, fabric, etc.),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiahui Fan , Fujun Luan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

We introduce LumiNet, a novel architecture that leverages generative models and latent intrinsic representations for effective lighting transfer. Given a source image and a target lighting image, LumiNet synthesizes a relit version of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xiaoyan Xing , Konrad Groh , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers , Anand Bhattad

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

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

Existing methods for relightable view synthesis -- using a set of images of an object under unknown lighting to recover a 3D representation that can be rendered from novel viewpoints under a target illumination -- are based on inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoming Zhao , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin , Keunhong Park , Ricardo Martin Brualla , Philipp Henzler

Single-image relighting is highly under-constrained: small illumination changes can produce large, nonlinear variations in shading, shadows, and specularities, while geometry and materials remain unobserved. Existing diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoze Zheng , Zihao Wang , Xianfeng Wu , Yajing Bai , Yexin Liu , Yun Li , Xiaogang Xu , Harry Yang

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

Previous raw image-based low-light image enhancement methods predominantly relied on feed-forward neural networks to learn deterministic mappings from low-light to normally-exposed images. However, they failed to capture critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yufei Wang , Yi Yu , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Novel-view synthesis and 3D reconstruction from sparse posed images are central to robotics and AR/VR. Yet, feed-forward 3D Gaussian reconstruction fails under lowlight due to noise, color shifts, and unreliable correspondence. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Fuzhen Jiang , Zengtian Xie , Zhuoran Li

Multiview diffusion models have rapidly emerged as a powerful tool for content creation with spatial consistency across viewpoints, offering rich visual realism without requiring explicit geometry and appearance representation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hubert Kompanowski , Varun Jampani , Aaryaman Vasishta , Binh-Son Hua

Accurate reconstruction and relighting of glossy objects remains a longstanding challenge, as object shape, material properties, and illumination are inherently difficult to disentangle. Existing neural rendering approaches often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Georgios Kouros , Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

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

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

Single image scene relighting aims to generate a realistic new version of an input image so that it appears to be illuminated by a new target light condition. Although existing works have explored this problem from various perspectives,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yixiong Yang , Hassan Ahmed Sial , Ramon Baldrich , Maria Vanrell

Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero