arXiv:2607.08016v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video relighting requires balancing long-form temporal consistency with a physically grounded understanding of light transport, which depends on ac...
RelightFormer is a feed‑forward generative Transformer that performs single‑ and multi‑view image relighting without explicit intrinsic property estimation. It incorporates a latent illumination module that injects target environment maps into spatial features via cross‑attention, and uses permutation‑invariant positional encodings to process unordered multi‑view inputs symmetrically. Trained on the large Laval Objaverse Dataset, the model achieves state‑of‑the‑art visual and photorealistic relighting quality, and demonstrates strong zero‑shot generalization across various relighting tasks.
IntrinSync is a unified framework that jointly decomposes an RGB image into albedo, shading, surface normal, roughness, and metallic maps through a 1-to-N mapping, allowing information exchange across channels. It also establishes inverse-forward reciprocity via a dual cycle-consistent objective that aligns predictions across a closed loop, improving coherence and physical consistency. The method demonstrates competitive performance on three datasets and offers a physically grounded interface for image editing by manipulating intrinsic properties and rendering them back into RGB images.
arXiv:2610.19847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address inverse rendering with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) by introducing explicit visibility modeling for relighting as well as material and light...
We present Generative Relightable Avatars (GRA), a person-specific method for photorealistic free-view rendering and environment-map relighting of full-body humans. We postulate that modeling fine-grained appearance details is inherently a one-to-many problem that can benefit from a generative formulation.
GLOW is a Global Illumination‑aware inverse rendering framework for indoor scenes captured with dynamic co‑located light and camera setups. It combines a neural implicit surface representation with a neural radiance cache to jointly optimize geometry and reflectance, while introducing a dynamic radiance cache and a surface‑angle‑weighted radiometric loss to handle near‑field motion, strong inter‑reflections, and specular highlights. Experiments demonstrate that GLOW significantly outperforms prior methods in estimating material reflectance under both natural and co‑located illumination.
The paper introduces a benchmark called Shedding Light to evaluate how well generative image models understand and reproduce lighting. The benchmark tests models by asking them to inpaint a simple object, called a light probe, into real photographs and then compares the generated probe to the ground truth to assess lighting direction, colour, and radiance. The authors provide a scalable protocol and open-source code and data for systematic assessment of photometric accuracy in future models.
GS-PI introduces an optimization‑decoupled framework that transforms Gaussian Splatting (GS) assets into physically based rendering (PBR) compatible Gaussian assets. By treating PBR material generation as a geometry‑conditioned diffusion process on 3D point clouds, it achieves multi‑view consistency and avoids the pixel‑correspondence problems of 2D diffusion. The method employs a multi‑scale cross‑view conditioning mechanism—combining global semantic priors, photometric cues, and spatial view‑direction signals—to prevent specular highlights from baking into intrinsic colors, and then distills the predicted attributes back into a fully relightable PBR‑GS asset without requiring proxy meshes.
arXiv:2606. 31637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrinsic decomposition which expresses image colors as the product of diffuse albedo and shading, possibly augmented with view-dependent residuals has a long history in image editing as it enables the modification of object colors and textures without altering lighting.
arXiv:2604. 10359v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to restore natural visibility, color fidelity, and structural detail under severe illumination degradation.
arXiv:2609.28300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ill-posed inverse problems require priors to constrain the solution space toward plausible outcomes. In inverse rendering, learned priors modeling the...
arXiv:2606. 06899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Variations in illumination remain a major challenge for visual representation learning, as they induce substantial appearance changes both across and within environments.