arXiv Machine Learning By Lizhen Zhu, Charantej Reddy Pochimireddy, James Z Wang, Brad Wyble

Lighting-Aware Representation Learning under Controllable Lighting Variation

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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.

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