CVGRJan 23

SyncLight: Controllable and Consistent Multi-View Relighting

arXiv:2601.16981v11 citationsh-index: 4
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This addresses the challenge of rigorous lighting consistency in multi-view capture systems, which is essential for professional media production.

The paper tackles the problem of maintaining lighting consistency across multiple uncalibrated views of a static scene for applications like multi-camera broadcasts and virtual production, achieving high-fidelity relighting of entire image sets in a single inference step with zero-shot generalization to arbitrary viewpoints.

We present SyncLight, the first method to enable consistent, parametric relighting across multiple uncalibrated views of a static scene. While single-view relighting has advanced significantly, existing generative approaches struggle to maintain the rigorous lighting consistency essential for multi-camera broadcasts, stereoscopic cinema, and virtual production. SyncLight addresses this by enabling precise control over light intensity and color across a multi-view capture of a scene, conditioned on a single reference edit. Our method leverages a multi-view diffusion transformer trained using a latent bridge matching formulation, achieving high-fidelity relighting of the entire image set in a single inference step. To facilitate training, we introduce a large-scale hybrid dataset comprising diverse synthetic environments -- curated from existing sources and newly designed scenes -- alongside high-fidelity, real-world multi-view captures under calibrated illumination. Surprisingly, though trained only on image pairs, SyncLight generalizes zero-shot to an arbitrary number of viewpoints, effectively propagating lighting changes across all views, without requiring camera pose information. SyncLight enables practical relighting workflows for multi-view capture systems.

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