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GeoRelight: Learning Joint Geometrical Relighting and Reconstruction with Flexible Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers

Yuxuan Xue , Ruofan Liang , Egor Zakharov , Timur Bagautdinov , Chen Cao , Giljoo Nam , Shunsuke Saito , Gerard Pons-Moll
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The pith

A unified diffusion transformer can jointly estimate 3D geometry and relight a person from a single photo.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The authors aim to show that 3D geometry estimation and relighting are mutually beneficial tasks that should be solved together rather than in sequence. A single Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer model trained on both synthetic and real data achieves this by using a new 3D representation that fits into the diffusion process. This matters because separate pipelines accumulate errors and often produce lighting that does not respect the underlying shape. If successful the approach delivers physically consistent relit images and accurate geometry without manual post-processing.

Core claim

GeoRelight is a Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer that jointly solves for 3D geometry and relighting from a single image. It achieves this through the isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth representation, which provides a distortion-free 3D encoding compatible with latent diffusion models, combined with a mixed-data training strategy that uses both synthetic renders and auto-labeled real images.

What carries the argument

The isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD) representation serves as the central mechanism, allowing the diffusion transformer to process geometry and lighting variables jointly without distortion.

If this is right

  • The joint model outperforms sequential pipelines by avoiding error accumulation between geometry and relighting steps.
  • Explicit use of estimated geometry during relighting produces outputs with greater physical consistency.
  • Mixed training on synthetic and real data enables generalization without dataset-specific tuning or post-hoc fixes.
  • Joint solving removes the need for separate post-processing stages in both tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This joint training strategy could be tested on related inverse graphics problems such as estimating surface materials from images.
  • Extending the model to handle multiple input views or video sequences might further improve geometry accuracy.
  • If iNOD proves stable, it may serve as a drop-in replacement for other depth representations in diffusion-based 3D generation pipelines.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that joint training on the proposed representation and mixed data actually prevents error accumulation and produces outputs that are physically consistent without additional corrections.

What would settle it

A controlled experiment on images with known ground-truth 3D geometry and lighting, where the model's relit output is compared against a physically-based renderer using the estimated geometry and lights; significant deviations from expected results would falsify the consistency benefit.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.20715 by Chen Cao, Egor Zakharov, Gerard Pons-Moll, Giljoo Nam, Javier Romero, Ruofan Liang, Shunsuke Saito, Timur Bagautdinov, Yuxuan Xue.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: GeoRelight. Given a monocular image (left), our framework jointly generates a relit image under novel illumination (right), disentangles image intrinsics like albedo (2nd column) and normals (3rd column), and extracts a fine-grained 3D pointcloud (4th column). Abstract Relighting a person from a single photo is an attrac￾tive but ill-posed task, as a 2D image ambiguously entan￾gles 3D geometry, intrinsic a… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: iNOD: A Distortion-Free and VAE-Friendly Geome￾try Representation. Standard Point Maps (top-left) become noisy when VAE-encoded, and anisotropically Normalized Depth (top￾right) severely distorts the 3D shape. estimates to create "radiance hints" that guide a ControlNet￾based diffusion model. Careaga and Aksoy [5] leverage physical intrinsic decomposition for controllable relighting of photographs. For vid… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The GeoRelight Pipeline. GeoRelight processes up to five target modalities, using cswitch to signal which ones are targets and conditions (the figure shows one specific usecase). It is guided by a global image condition z I and a specific illumination condition z E. being processed. Before being passed to DiT blocks, each modality’s embedding is broadcast to R H×W×Ctype and con￾catenated channel-wise to it… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Our Strategic Mixed-Data Training Sources. We combine (a) fully-labeled Synthetic data, (b) Light Stage data with paired lighting, and (c) In-the-wild data. We use our synthetic data pre-trained model to auto-label intrinsics for (b) and (c). Mode Clear Latent Noisy Latent Global Condition Dataset Default - z all z I , zE Synth, Dome Rendering z a , z n, z g , z s z IE zE Synth, Dome Intrinsic→Relit z a , … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablation studies validating the synergy of joint modeling. Relighting Normal Point Ablation PSNR↑ SSIM↑ LPIPS ↓ Ang. ↓ CD. ↓ w/o Geometry 21.19 0.976 0.0286 - - w/ GT Geometry 26.96 0.986 0.0138 - - Joint Modeling 27.49 0.985 0.0149 - - w/o Appearance - - - 12.24 1.00 w/ GT Appearance - - - 8.55 0.66 Joint Modeling - - - 9.10 0.58 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison on relighting. Our model (right) produces more physically-plausible results compared to baselines on both the HumanOLAT dataset [32] and challenging in-the-wild images. Please refer to our supplementary for more results1 . Synthetic Data LightStage Data HumanOLAT [32] Method PSNR ↑ SSIM ↑ LPIPS ↓ RMSE ↓ PSNR ↑ SSIM ↑ LPIPS ↓ RMSE ↓ PSNR ↑ SSIM ↑ LPIPS ↓ RMSE ↓ IC-Light 18.49 0.880 0.… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of estimated normal. Our model outperforms all baselines and consistently achieves sharper and high-frequency details such as eyes, skin, and hair. Please zoom in for details. Input VGGT MoGe2 Our Input VGGT MoGe2 Our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparison on geometry reconstruction. Our joint model (right) reconstructs fine-grained 3D shapes. In contrast, specialized geometry estimators like VGGT [33] and MoGe2 [35] produce distorted or over-smoothed point clouds on these in-the-wild images, demonstrating the superior performance of high-frequency details modeling of our iNOD with latent generative models. Input Synth Synth Dome Synth… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Benefit of In-the-Wild Data. Using only Synth un￾covers gaps in the data like the lack of mixed colored beards. Adding Dome data fixes that but produces unrealistic brightness (middle) due to the unnatural LED activation (either very sparse or fully lit) in light stage captures. Adding large-scale ITW data corrects this bias, yielding balanced and realistic lighting (right). Method Acc.↓ Comp.↓ CD ↓ F-Scor… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Conditioning on the modality latent. Each modality latent after conditioning have the shape R H×W×C(16+16+3∗16+3+1). Different modalities are con￾catenated "temporal-wise" to a sample R M×H×W×C in one batch. 6.2. Detailed DiT Conditioning As illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Processed Environment Illumination from Light￾Stage. From the 3-dimensional LED positions, we project it to a latlong image to model the environement map. shading and shadows present in the target relit image to refine the surface normals and iNOD geometry. 7. Detailed Data Creation and Sources In this section, we provide a detailed breakdown of the three data sources used in our hybrid dataset, as first … view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Robustness of our Auto-Labeler. Our auto-labeled albedo (shown) and other intrinsics are consistent across multiple views of the same subject from our Dome dataset, demonstrating the high quality of our pseudo-ground-truth. Paired Data Creation This dataset is critical because its light stage capture setup, which employs 1024 individually controllable white LED light sources with known locations, allows u… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Limitation of Point Map in Latent Space. As a popular geometry representation [33, 36] in image sapce, point map shows strong limitation in latent space. Although visually the point map looks similar before and after VAE, the boundary lost huge precision (please zoom in) and it contains much noise after VAE. The key steps are (1) Unprojection to a metrically￾accurate 3D point cloud, (2) Isotropic Normaliz… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative comparison on relighting on HumanOLAT. Our model (right) produces more physically-plausible results compared to open-source baselines. comparison. 11. Extension to Video Relighting GeoRelight is primarily designed for single-image relight￾ing and reconstruction by repurposing the temporal dimen￾sion T of a pretrained video DiT as a modality dimension M. However, the framework can be naturally … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Relighting a person from a single photo is an attractive but ill-posed task, as a 2D image ambiguously entangles 3D geometry, intrinsic appearance, and illumination. Current methods either use sequential pipelines that suffer from error accumulation, or they do not explicitly leverage 3D geometry during relighting, which limits physical consistency. Since relighting and estimation of 3D geometry are mutually beneficial tasks, we propose a unified Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer (DiT) that jointly solves for both: GeoRelight. We make this possible through two key technical contributions: isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD), a distortion-free 3D representation compatible with latent diffusion models; and a strategic mixed-data training method that combines synthetic and auto-labeled real data. By solving geometry and relighting jointly, GeoRelight achieves better performance than both sequential models and previous systems that ignored geometry.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes GeoRelight, a unified Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer (DiT) that jointly performs relighting and 3D geometry reconstruction from a single photo. It introduces isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD) as a distortion-free representation compatible with latent diffusion and employs mixed-data training on synthetic plus auto-labeled real data, claiming this mutual-benefit approach avoids the error accumulation of sequential pipelines and yields superior performance to prior systems that ignore geometry.

Significance. If the joint optimization demonstrably produces physically consistent outputs with reduced error accumulation, the work would advance single-image relighting and reconstruction by unifying two interdependent tasks inside a flexible diffusion transformer, offering a template for other appearance-geometry problems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Training Strategy] The central claim that joint solving via iNOD and mixed training inherently avoids error accumulation and ensures physical consistency rests on the training dynamics, yet the manuscript provides no explicit cross-consistency term in the diffusion objective that penalizes mismatches between predicted depth and relit appearance (see the description of the training objective).
  2. [Experiments] No ablation studies isolate the contribution of joint training versus sequential pipelines or quantify whether mixed-data training reduces inconsistency rather than averaging label noise from auto-labeled real data; this directly undermines the assertion of a unified advantage over sequential models.
  3. [Method] The iNOD representation is asserted to be distortion-free and DiT-compatible, but the manuscript supplies neither a derivation comparing it to standard NDC/orthographic projections nor empirical verification that it preserves the mutual-benefit premise without additional post-hoc fixes.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract introduces 'Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer' without immediately clarifying the modalities; a brief parenthetical in the first sentence would improve readability.
  2. [Method] Notation for the iNOD projection (e.g., the exact mapping from 3D points to the latent space) should be formalized with an equation rather than prose description.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and detailed comments. We appreciate the focus on the core claims of joint optimization and physical consistency. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments, clarifying our approach and committing to revisions that strengthen the presentation and validation of these claims.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that joint solving via iNOD and mixed training inherently avoids error accumulation and ensures physical consistency rests on the training dynamics, yet the manuscript provides no explicit cross-consistency term in the diffusion objective that penalizes mismatches between predicted depth and relit appearance (see the description of the training objective).

    Authors: We agree that an explicit cross-consistency term would make the mutual-benefit argument more direct. While the shared DiT backbone and joint denoising process on the combined iNOD+appearance latent encourage consistency through data-driven supervision (synthetic data provides perfect alignment and real auto-labels provide scale), the current objective does not add an auxiliary penalty for depth-appearance mismatch. In the revision we will introduce a lightweight consistency regularizer (e.g., a rendered shading consistency loss between predicted depth and relit image) into the training objective and report its effect. revision: yes

  2. Referee: No ablation studies isolate the contribution of joint training versus sequential pipelines or quantify whether mixed-data training reduces inconsistency rather than averaging label noise from auto-labeled real data; this directly undermines the assertion of a unified advantage over sequential models.

    Authors: We acknowledge the absence of these targeted ablations. In the revised manuscript we will add (1) a direct comparison of the joint GeoRelight model against a sequential baseline (depth estimation followed by a separate relighting network) using the same backbone and data, and (2) quantitative consistency metrics (e.g., normal-shading error and depth-relighting alignment on a held-out synthetic test set) that separate the effect of joint training from potential label noise averaging in the mixed-data regime. revision: yes

  3. Referee: The iNOD representation is asserted to be distortion-free and DiT-compatible, but the manuscript supplies neither a derivation comparing it to standard NDC/orthographic projections nor empirical verification that it preserves the mutual-benefit premise without additional post-hoc fixes.

    Authors: We will expand the method section with a concise derivation showing that iNOD applies isotropic scaling within normalized device coordinates to eliminate the non-uniform stretching present in both standard NDC perspective and pure orthographic projections, while remaining compatible with the fixed-resolution latent grid of the DiT. We will also add empirical verification: side-by-side reconstruction and relighting error tables on synthetic data, plus qualitative examples demonstrating that the joint model benefits from iNOD without requiring post-hoc alignment steps. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; claims rest on empirical training rather than definitional reduction

full rationale

The paper motivates its unified DiT by stating that relighting and 3D geometry are mutually beneficial tasks, then introduces the iNOD representation and mixed synthetic/auto-labeled training as technical contributions. Performance superiority over sequential pipelines is asserted as an outcome of joint training and evaluated empirically, without any equation or result that reduces by construction to the inputs (e.g., no fitted parameter renamed as prediction, no self-citation chain invoked as a uniqueness theorem, and no ansatz smuggled via prior work). The derivation chain is self-contained as a proposal of architecture plus data strategy whose validity is tested externally via experiments rather than forced analytically.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the unproven premise that the two tasks are mutually beneficial and that the new iNOD format integrates cleanly with latent diffusion without introducing its own distortions or training instabilities.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Relighting and 3D geometry estimation are mutually beneficial tasks whose joint solution avoids error accumulation
    Explicitly invoked in the abstract as the motivation for the unified model.
invented entities (1)
  • isotropic NDC-Orthographic Depth (iNOD) no independent evidence
    purpose: Distortion-free 3D representation compatible with latent diffusion models
    New representation introduced to enable joint training; no independent validation supplied in abstract.

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