RelightFormer: Feed-forward Generative Transformer for Multiview Object Relighting
Authors: Hejun Wang, Jinxi Li, Junwei Jiang, Shiwei Mao, Hu Cheng, Shouwang Huang, Bo Yang
Abstract
Image relighting is traditionally tackled via complex inverse rendering pipelines, which suffer from ill-posed optimization, or single-image generative models that ignore crucial multi-view cues necessary for understanding 3D geometry and material interactions. To address these limitations, we introduce a feed-forward generative Transformer for direct single- and multi-view image relighting that entirely bypasses explicit intrinsic property estimation. Adapted from a video foundation model, our architecture features a latent illumination module that dynamically injects target environment maps into spatial features via cross-attention. Furthermore, we employ permutation-invariant positional encodings to symmetrically process unordered multi-view inputs without sequential bias. To train this robust data-driven model, we construct the massive Laval Objaverse Dataset (LOD), comprising 90K objects and 39K unique illuminations. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art visual quality, photorealistic relighting quality, and strong zero-shot generalization across single-view, multi-view, and novel-view relighting tasks.
Relighting a person from a single photo is an attractive but ill-posed task, as a 2D image ambiguously entangles 3D geometry, intrinsic appearance, and illumination. Current methods either use sequential pipelines that suffer from error accumulation, or they do not explicitly leverage 3D geometry during relighting, which limits physical consistency. Since relighting and estimation of 3D geometry are mutually beneficial tasks, we propose a unified Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer (DiT) that jointly solves for both: GeoRelight. We make this possible through two key technical contributions: isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD), a distortion-free 3D representation compatible with latent diffusion models; and a strategic mixed-data training method that combines synthetic and auto-labeled real data. By solving geometry and relighting jointly, GeoRelight achieves better performance than both sequential models and previous systems that ignored geometry.
Indoor scene relighting demands photorealism, precise spatial control, and strict multi-view consistency. While diffusion-based image editing models enable semantic lighting manipulation via text prompts, enforcing exact 3D light placement often disrupts their generative priors. We propose Lume-Palette, a progressive framework that leverages semantic lighting priors for spatially controllable multi-view indoor relighting. The approach decouples relighting into two stages: (1) illumination distillation, which extracts canonical illumination palettes from a pretrained diffusion model to preserve realistic material-light interactions, and (2) illumination casting, which explicitly maps target spatial lighting conditions defined from coarse 3D geometry. To efficiently handle dense multi-view and multi-modal inputs, we introduce an asymmetric multi-view conditioning strategy that selectively injects essential spatial context. Experiments on diverse synthetic scenes and real-world scenes demonstrate that Lume-Palette produces photorealistic, spatially controllable, and multi-view consistent relighting results. Project Page: https://cjeen.github.io/lumepalette
We present PIXLRelight, a feed-forward approach for physically controllable single-image relighting. Existing methods either provide limited lighting control (e.g. through text or environment maps), accumulate errors when chaining inverse and forward rendering, or require costly per-image optimization. Our key idea is to bridge physically based rendering (PBR) and learned image synthesis through a shared intrinsic conditioning that can be obtained from either real photographs or PBR renders. At training time, paired multi-illumination photographs are decomposed into albedo, diffuse shading, and non-diffuse residuals, which condition the model. At inference time, the same conditioning is computed from a path-traced render of a coarse 3D reconstruction of the input under user-specified PBR lights. A transformer-based neural renderer then applies the target illumination to the source photograph, preserving fine image detail through a per-pixel affine modulation. PIXLRelight enables arbitrary PBR-style lighting control, achieves state-of-the-art relighting quality, and runs in under a tenth of a second per image. Code and models are available at https://mlfarinha.github.io/pixl-relight/.