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arxiv: 2605.20436 · v1 · pith:PVTSUWDGnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV

Lighting-aware Unified Model for Instance Segmentation

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords instance segmentationlighting robustnesscontrast mapsadapter moduleSAMsynthetic datasetdual-branch architectureillumination invariance
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The pith

A contrast-map adapter makes instance segmentation robust to real-world lighting without retraining the backbone.

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

Foundation models like SAM lose accuracy when illumination varies across real scenes. This paper adds a lightweight Lighting Convolutional-Attention adapter that runs a second branch on contrast maps derived from the input. The adapter is trained on paired clean and illuminated images using a loss that penalizes output differences between the pairs. A new Unity-generated synthetic dataset supplies controlled lighting variants for training and testing. The result is a model that focuses on structural edges instead of brightness shifts.

Core claim

Lighting Convolutional-Attention (LCA) is an adapter module with a dual-branch architecture that processes RGB features alongside contrast maps. It is optimized through a pairwise training strategy that introduces a targeted loss term penalizing discrepancies between clean images and their illumination variants. A novel Unity-based synthetic dataset replicates complex real-world lighting conditions to support training and evaluation of the architecture.

What carries the argument

Lighting Convolutional-Attention (LCA) adapter, a dual-branch module that combines RGB features with contrast maps to produce lighting-invariant representations for the segmentation head.

If this is right

  • The adapter delivers superior lighting-robust instance segmentation on multiple existing benchmarks.
  • The method bridges the domain gap between synthetic lighting variants and real-world illumination conditions.
  • Performance gains occur without any fine-tuning of the underlying heavy foundation-model backbone.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Contrast-map branches could be added to other vision tasks such as detection or depth estimation to gain similar lighting invariance.
  • The pairwise training approach may reduce the volume of real-world annotated data needed when adapting models to new environments.
  • Deployment in outdoor robotics or autonomous vehicles could become more reliable if the adapter proves stable across seasons and weather.

Load-bearing premise

The contrast maps enable physically motivated sensitivity to structural changes rather than illumination artifacts, allowing the dual-branch architecture to generalize from synthetic lighting variants to real-world conditions.

What would settle it

A clear drop in segmentation accuracy on real captured images whose lighting conditions fall outside the range simulated in the Unity dataset would show that the claimed generalization does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20436 by Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Aditya Balu, Alloy Das, Joshua R. Waite, Qisai Liu, Soumik Sarkar, Zhanhong Jiang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: PLAP-LCA. Clean and variant images share a SAM ViT-B encoder with LCA modules injected into the final two blocks. Only LCA weights, scalar gates, and the mask decoder are trained through supervise and consistency losses. Please see the Supplementary Materials for concrete details of the whole framework. tecture. While SAM’s core design consists of a ViT-based image encoder, a lightweight prompt encoder, an… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Unity synthetic data pipeline overview. Top: The lighting rig exposes five physically-grounded parameters manipulated directly in the 3D scene. Middle: Each iteration randomises 16 camera positions then records instance-segmentation masks. Bottom: Every viewpoint is re-rendered under four lighting conditions Clean, Mild, Moderate, and Severe construct pairwise training data with the perfect ground truth ma… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Lighting Convolutional Attention (LCA) module. Channel, spatial, and Lapla￾cian contrast gates are multiplied element-wise and projected separable convolution, then fused through a learned scalar gate. captures the typical activation energy across the spatial extent, and a maximum that captures the strongest localized response. Both are obtained directly from global adaptive pooling operations: davg = AvgP… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Quantitative IoU analysis comparing the SAM baseline and LCA in Cityscape lighting variant. The histogram on the left shows the overall distribution shift; the scatter plot on the right shows per-instance results, where points above the y=x indicate LCA improvement [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Sheep in a low-contrast outdoor scene. The baseline (IoU = 0.007) collapses into a near-total false-positive flood across the hillside; LCA (IoU = 0.585) isolates the small target instance despite its low contrast against the surrounding terrain. evaluate four resolutions: 128 × 128, 256 × 256, 512 × 512, and 1024 × 1024. Interestingly, the relationship between resolution and mIoU is non-monotonic. The bes… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: On the top is the lighting variant image under GradCam. LCA achieves IoU = 0.268, comparing to the baseline only gets 0.112. LCA concentrates attention on the targeted area, but the decoder only diffuses with the background. between Clean and Variant conditions remains stable (∼0.005) across all res￾olutions, indicating that the lighting robustness of our approach is resolution￾agnostic. LCA Architectural … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Detailed PLAP-LCA training pipeline. Clean and variant images are processed by a shared, frozen ViT-B encoder with LCA modules at the last two blocks. The prompts remain unchanged and are shared with both streams. The supervised loss trains against shared ground-truth masks, while the consistency loss penalizes any prediction divergence caused purely by illumination [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: LCA module architecture.The three gates run in parallel. The channel gate (left) uses global average and max pool statistics fed through a shared MLP to produce a per-channel scalar mask. The spatial gate (center) concatenates channel-wise mean and max maps and convolves them with a 7×7 kernel to produce a per-location scalar mask. The contrast gate (right) projects the feature map to a single-channel gray… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Robustness analysis on COCO across all three severity levels. (a) Average mIoU drop (clean − variant) per severity. (b) Per-image drop distributions; wider spread indicates more variable degradation. (c) Pooled KDE across all severities; a sharper peak at zero indicates greater lighting robustness. (a) IoU histogram — COCO (lighting variant). (b) Per-instance scatter — COCO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_f… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: IoU analysis on COCO under lighting variant conditions. Left: distribution shift between SAM baseline and LCA. Right: per-instance comparison; points above y=x indicate LCA improvement [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: IoU analysis on VOC under lighting variant conditions. (a) IoU histogram — Unity (lighting variant). (b) Per-instance scatter — Unity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: IoU analysis on the Unity synthetic dataset under physically rendered lighting variant conditions. Because Unity lighting is rendered rather than augmented, the performance gap is larger, reflecting the additional domain shift [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Cityscapes (road, sev1, ∆IoU = +0.761). The baseline floods the entire road surface with high confidence (IoU = 0.060, conf = 0.98); LCA recovers a compact mask tightly aligned with the target lane segment (IoU = 0.821) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Cityscapes (sky, sev2, ∆IoU = +0.725). Under moderate lighting, the base￾line misidentifies large building façades as sky (IoU = 0.042); LCA correctly isolates the visible sky region (IoU = 0.767) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: COCO (truck, sev2, ∆IoU = +0.756). The baseline activates on the lower-half background rather than the vehicle body (IoU = 0.046); LCA produces a well-bounded truck mask (IoU = 0.802), demonstrating robustness to the high-contrast reflective win￾dow surface [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: COCO (person, sev2, ∆IoU = +0.700). Low ambient stadium lighting causes the baseline to flood a rectangular region of the court (IoU = 0.030); LCA correctly segments the athlete’s silhouette (IoU = 0.729) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Unity (object, sev1, ∆IoU = +0.686). In a near-dark synthetic indoor scene, the baseline produces a large false-positive region unrelated to the target object (IoU = 0.128); LCA isolates the dimly-lit target using structural edge cues (IoU = 0.814) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Unity (object, sev1, ∆IoU = +0.663). Warm ceiling lighting creates a strong false edge that misleads the baseline into activating across the wall and furniture (IoU = 0.123); LCA suppresses the photometric distraction and recovers the target boundary (IoU = 0.786) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: COCO scene. Row 1: clean image and three severity levels (mild, moderate, severe). Row 2: corresponding ground-truth instance masks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: COCO scene (second example) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Cityscapes scene [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Cityscapes scene (second example) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Unity scene [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Unity scene (second example) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_24.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization but frequently degrade under diverse real-world illumination, particularly for instance segmentation. In this work, we address this limitation by developing \textit{Lighting Convolutional-Attention (\lca{})}, an adapter module that enhances segmentation robustness without fine-tuning the heavy backbone. \lca{} employs a dual-branch architecture to process RGB features alongside contrast maps, enabling physically motivated sensitivity to structural changes rather than illumination artifacts. We optimize \lca{} through a pairwise training strategy, introducing a targeted loss term that explicitly penalizes discrepancies between clean images and their corresponding illumination variants. To evaluate and support this architecture, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study across multiple existing benchmarks and present a novel Unity-based synthetic dataset specifically designed to accurately replicate complex real-world lighting conditions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our approach successfully bridges the domain gap, delivering superior lighting-robust segmentation.

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Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper proposes the Lighting Convolutional-Attention (LCA) adapter module to improve the lighting robustness of foundation models such as SAM for instance segmentation. LCA uses a dual-branch architecture that processes RGB features together with contrast maps, is trained via a pairwise strategy with a loss that penalizes discrepancies between clean images and their illumination variants, and is evaluated on existing benchmarks plus a new Unity-generated synthetic dataset designed to replicate complex real-world lighting.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under scrutiny, the work would provide a practical, lightweight adaptation strategy for making segmentation models more reliable under uncontrolled illumination without retraining the backbone. The new synthetic dataset could serve as a useful resource for the community studying domain gaps induced by lighting.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (LCA architecture): The claim that contrast maps enable 'physically motivated sensitivity to structural changes rather than illumination artifacts' is central to the dual-branch design but is presented without a derivation, photometric justification, or explicit formula for how the contrast map is computed from the input; this leaves the physical motivation as an assumption rather than a demonstrated property.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): While the abstract and introduction assert 'extensive experimental results' and 'superior lighting-robust segmentation' across benchmarks, the manuscript provides no quantitative metrics, error bars, statistical tests, or dataset statistics in the summary sections; without these, the magnitude and reliability of the claimed domain-gap bridging cannot be assessed.
  3. [§3.3] §3.3 (Pairwise training): The targeted loss term that penalizes discrepancies between clean and illumination-variant pairs is load-bearing for the training strategy, yet the manuscript does not specify its exact functional form, weighting relative to the segmentation loss, or ablation isolating its contribution versus the contrast-map branch alone.
minor comments (3)
  1. [§3] The notation for the LCA module and its components should be introduced with a clear diagram or pseudocode early in §3 to aid readability.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure captions for the synthetic dataset examples should explicitly state the range of lighting parameters varied (e.g., light source positions, intensities) so readers can judge how well they approximate real-world conditions.
  3. [§2] A few references to prior work on contrast-based illumination invariance (e.g., in photometric stereo or Retinex theory) appear to be missing from the related-work section.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, clarifying aspects of the manuscript and outlining the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (LCA architecture): The claim that contrast maps enable 'physically motivated sensitivity to structural changes rather than illumination artifacts' is central to the dual-branch design but is presented without a derivation, photometric justification, or explicit formula for how the contrast map is computed from the input; this leaves the physical motivation as an assumption rather than a demonstrated property.

    Authors: We agree that the physical motivation benefits from explicit support. The contrast map is intended to emphasize local structural variations by normalizing against local intensity statistics. In the revised manuscript we will add the precise computation formula for the contrast map, a short derivation drawing on photometric principles of local contrast, and an explanation of why this formulation reduces sensitivity to global illumination shifts while preserving edge and texture information. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): While the abstract and introduction assert 'extensive experimental results' and 'superior lighting-robust segmentation' across benchmarks, the manuscript provides no quantitative metrics, error bars, statistical tests, or dataset statistics in the summary sections; without these, the magnitude and reliability of the claimed domain-gap bridging cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract and introduction currently lack numerical summaries. The full experimental section and supplementary material already contain mAP / mIoU tables with standard deviations across multiple runs, statistical significance tests, and statistics for the Unity dataset (image count, lighting variation parameters). In the revision we will insert concise quantitative highlights and dataset descriptors into the abstract and introduction so that the claimed improvements are immediately quantifiable. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (Pairwise training): The targeted loss term that penalizes discrepancies between clean and illumination-variant pairs is load-bearing for the training strategy, yet the manuscript does not specify its exact functional form, weighting relative to the segmentation loss, or ablation isolating its contribution versus the contrast-map branch alone.

    Authors: We thank the referee for noting this omission. The targeted loss is a pairwise discrepancy term between feature representations of clean and illumination-augmented images. In the revised §3.3 we will state its exact functional form as an equation, specify the relative weighting hyper-parameter with respect to the primary segmentation loss, and add an ablation experiment that isolates the pairwise loss contribution while holding the contrast-map branch fixed. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical architecture and benchmarks are self-contained

full rationale

The paper proposes an LCA adapter with dual-branch processing of RGB and contrast maps, a pairwise loss penalizing illumination variants, and a new Unity synthetic dataset. These elements are trained and evaluated on existing benchmarks plus the new data, with performance gains reported directly from experiments. No equations, predictions, or uniqueness claims reduce by construction to fitted parameters or self-citations; the central claim rests on empirical validation rather than any self-referential derivation chain.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that contrast maps isolate structural information independent of illumination and that the synthetic dataset faithfully represents real lighting variations.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Contrast maps capture structural changes independent of illumination artifacts
    Invoked in the description of the dual-branch architecture processing RGB features alongside contrast maps.
invented entities (1)
  • Lighting Convolutional-Attention (LCA) adapter module no independent evidence
    purpose: Enhance segmentation robustness to lighting without backbone fine-tuning
    New module introduced with dual-branch design and targeted loss.

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