A Diffusion Approach to Radiance Field Relighting using
  Multi-Illumination Synthesis
Authors: name: Yohan Poirier-Ginter; name: Alban Gauthier; name: Julien Phillip; name: Jean-Francois Lalonde; name: George Drettakis
Published: 2024-09-13 16:07:25

Abstract: Relighting radiance fields is severely underconstrained for multi-view data,
which is most often captured under a single illumination condition; It is
especially hard for full scenes containing multiple objects. We introduce a
method to create relightable radiance fields using such single-illumination
data by exploiting priors extracted from 2D image diffusion models. We first
fine-tune a 2D diffusion model on a multi-illumination dataset conditioned by
light direction, allowing us to augment a single-illumination capture into a
realistic -- but possibly inconsistent -- multi-illumination dataset from
directly defined light directions. We use this augmented data to create a
relightable radiance field represented by 3D Gaussian splats. To allow direct
control of light direction for low-frequency lighting, we represent appearance
with a multi-layer perceptron parameterized on light direction. To enforce
multi-view consistency and overcome inaccuracies we optimize a per-image
auxiliary feature vector. We show results on synthetic and real multi-view data
under single illumination, demonstrating that our method successfully exploits
2D diffusion model priors to allow realistic 3D relighting for complete scenes.
Project site
https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/generative-radiance-field-relighting/