Single-photo relighting system where the user drags a light source or sets a spotlight. It estimates rough 3D scene geometry, relights it in Blender, and uses that as reference for the final prediction; code released.
Feed-forward single-image relighting model with physically based light control, using intrinsic conditioning from a coarse 3D scene.
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PixlRelight at a glance
- What is PixlRelight?
- PixlRelight is a model. Feed-forward single-image relighting model with physically based light control, using intrinsic conditioning from a coarse 3D scene.
- Does PixlRelight work in the EU?
- Unverified. No explicit evidence found. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does PixlRelight cost?
- Pricing unknown. No pricing information; research project with an online demo page.
- Where was PixlRelight shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 31 May 2026, at 36:44 in “Self-improving AI, Opus 4.8, Nvidia bangers, game-ready 3D models, juggling robots: AI NEWS”.
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PIXLRelight (also written PixlRelight) is a research method for controllable relighting of a single photograph. It was described by Miguel Farinha and Ronald Clark in an arXiv preprint (2605.18735, 2026). The user specifies a target light, such as a movable flash or a spotlight, and the model produces the photo as if lit by that light.
The method links physically based rendering with learned image synthesis through a shared intrinsic conditioning: albedo, diffuse shading and non-diffuse residuals. During training, this conditioning is computed from paired multi-illumination photographs. At inference, it is computed from a path-traced render of a coarse 3D reconstruction of the input under the user-specified PBR lights. A transformer-based neural renderer then applies the target illumination to the source photo, using per-pixel affine modulation to preserve fine detail. According to the authors, it runs in under a tenth of a second per image and reaches state-of-the-art relighting quality.
The project page offers an interactive demo with a cursor-controlled light and qualitative comparisons against prior work. A creator review states that code has been released, but no repository link appeared in the provided material. Weights, license and pricing details are not confirmed.
- Single-image relighting with a feed-forward model
- Physically based light control (flash, spotlight, movable position)
- Intrinsic conditioning: albedo, diffuse shading, non-diffuse residual
- Path-traced render of a coarse 3D reconstruction guides the output
- Per-pixel affine modulation preserves image detail
- Reported inference under 0.1 s per image
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