PHYSICALLY CONTROLLABLE RELIGHTING OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

This study presents a self-supervised approach to in-the-wild image relighting that enables fully controllable, physically based illumination editing. The approach combines the physical accuracy of traditional rendering with the photorealistic appearance made possible by neural rendering. It represents a significant step in bringing the explicit physical control over lights available in typical 3D computer graphics tools to in-the-wild relighting. A 5-minute-long video explaining the study with examples is available.