LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls

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Main Authors: Zhou, Gengze, Wang, Tianyu, Kim, Soo Ye, Shu, Zhixin, Yu, Xin, Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick, Chaturvedi, Sumit, Wu, Qi, Lin, Zhe, Cohen, Scott
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author Zhou, Gengze
Wang, Tianyu
Kim, Soo Ye
Shu, Zhixin
Yu, Xin
Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick
Chaturvedi, Sumit
Wu, Qi
Lin, Zhe
Cohen, Scott
author_facet Zhou, Gengze
Wang, Tianyu
Kim, Soo Ye
Shu, Zhixin
Yu, Xin
Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick
Chaturvedi, Sumit
Wu, Qi
Lin, Zhe
Cohen, Scott
contents We present LightMover, a framework for controllable light manipulation in single images that leverages video diffusion priors to produce physically plausible illumination changes without re-rendering the scene. We formulate light editing as a sequence-to-sequence prediction problem in visual token space: given an image and light-control tokens, the model adjusts light position, color, and intensity together with resulting reflections, shadows, and falloff from a single view. This unified treatment of spatial (movement) and appearance (color, intensity) controls improves both manipulation and illumination understanding. We further introduce an adaptive token-pruning mechanism that preserves spatially informative tokens while compactly encoding non-spatial attributes, reducing control sequence length by 41% while maintaining editing fidelity. To train our framework, we construct a scalable rendering pipeline that generates large numbers of image pairs across varied light positions, colors, and intensities while keeping the scene content consistent with the original image. LightMover enables precise, independent control over light position, color, and intensity, and achieves high PSNR and strong semantic consistency (DINO, CLIP) across different tasks.
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spellingShingle LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls
Zhou, Gengze
Wang, Tianyu
Kim, Soo Ye
Shu, Zhixin
Yu, Xin
Hold-Geoffroy, Yannick
Chaturvedi, Sumit
Wu, Qi
Lin, Zhe
Cohen, Scott
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Graphics
Machine Learning
I.4.0; I.2.10; I.3.3
We present LightMover, a framework for controllable light manipulation in single images that leverages video diffusion priors to produce physically plausible illumination changes without re-rendering the scene. We formulate light editing as a sequence-to-sequence prediction problem in visual token space: given an image and light-control tokens, the model adjusts light position, color, and intensity together with resulting reflections, shadows, and falloff from a single view. This unified treatment of spatial (movement) and appearance (color, intensity) controls improves both manipulation and illumination understanding. We further introduce an adaptive token-pruning mechanism that preserves spatially informative tokens while compactly encoding non-spatial attributes, reducing control sequence length by 41% while maintaining editing fidelity. To train our framework, we construct a scalable rendering pipeline that generates large numbers of image pairs across varied light positions, colors, and intensities while keeping the scene content consistent with the original image. LightMover enables precise, independent control over light position, color, and intensity, and achieves high PSNR and strong semantic consistency (DINO, CLIP) across different tasks.
title LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Graphics
Machine Learning
I.4.0; I.2.10; I.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27209