Learning Illumination Control in Diffusion Models

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Autores principales: Anand, Nishit, Suri, Manan, Metzler, Christopher, Manocha, Dinesh, Duraiswami, Ramani
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Publicado: 2026
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author Anand, Nishit
Suri, Manan
Metzler, Christopher
Manocha, Dinesh
Duraiswami, Ramani
author_facet Anand, Nishit
Suri, Manan
Metzler, Christopher
Manocha, Dinesh
Duraiswami, Ramani
contents Controlling illumination in images is essential for photography and visual content creation. While closed-source models have demonstrated impressive illumination control, open-source alternatives either require heavy control inputs like depth maps or do not release their data and code. We present a fully open-source and reproducible pipeline for learning illumination control in diffusion models. Our approach builds a data engine that transforms well-lit images into supervised training triplets consisting of a poorly-illuminated input image, a natural language lighting instruction, and a well-illuminated output image. We finetune a diffusion model on this data and demonstrate significant improvements over baseline SD 1.5, SDXL, and FLUX.1-dev models in perceptual similarity, structural similarity, and identity preservation. Our work provides a reproducible solution built entirely with open-source tools and publicly available data. We release all our code, data, and model weights publicly.
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spellingShingle Learning Illumination Control in Diffusion Models
Anand, Nishit
Suri, Manan
Metzler, Christopher
Manocha, Dinesh
Duraiswami, Ramani
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
Controlling illumination in images is essential for photography and visual content creation. While closed-source models have demonstrated impressive illumination control, open-source alternatives either require heavy control inputs like depth maps or do not release their data and code. We present a fully open-source and reproducible pipeline for learning illumination control in diffusion models. Our approach builds a data engine that transforms well-lit images into supervised training triplets consisting of a poorly-illuminated input image, a natural language lighting instruction, and a well-illuminated output image. We finetune a diffusion model on this data and demonstrate significant improvements over baseline SD 1.5, SDXL, and FLUX.1-dev models in perceptual similarity, structural similarity, and identity preservation. Our work provides a reproducible solution built entirely with open-source tools and publicly available data. We release all our code, data, and model weights publicly.
title Learning Illumination Control in Diffusion Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24877