Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05626v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:58:42 GMT
• Title: Physically Controllable Relighting of Photographs
• Authors: Chris Careaga, Yağız Aksoy,
• Abstract summary: We present a self-supervised approach to in-the-wild image relighting that enables fully controllable, physically based illumination editing.<n>We achieve this by combining the physical accuracy of traditional rendering with the photorealistic appearance made possible by neural rendering.<n>Our method represents a significant step in bringing the explicit physical control over lights available in typical 3D computer graphics tools, such as Blender, to in-the-wild relighting.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a self-supervised approach to in-the-wild image relighting that enables fully controllable, physically based illumination editing. We achieve this by combining the physical accuracy of traditional rendering with the photorealistic appearance made possible by neural rendering. Our pipeline works by inferring a colored mesh representation of a given scene using monocular estimates of geometry and intrinsic components. This representation allows users to define their desired illumination configuration in 3D. The scene under the new lighting can then be rendered using a path-tracing engine. We send this approximate rendering of the scene through a feed-forward neural renderer to predict the final photorealistic relighting result. We develop a differentiable rendering process to reconstruct in-the-wild scene illumination, enabling self-supervised training of our neural renderer on raw image collections. Our method represents a significant step in bringing the explicit physical control over lights available in typical 3D computer graphics tools, such as Blender, to in-the-wild relighting.

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