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LiveLight is the first diffusion-based video relighting system to run in real time: a user can drag a 3D light and see temporally coherent relit frames stream out at about 16 FPS, on arbitrarily long videos.

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load-bearing objection Real-time streaming relighting is a genuine integration win, but the SOTA claim is undercut by the missing RelightMaster comparison and an ambiguous synthetic benchmark that may use oracle depth. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2608.01771 v1 pith:ARFV3ERX submitted 2026-08-03 cs.CV

LiveLight: Real-time Streaming Video Relighting with Interactive Control

Yue Ma , Jiangming Wang , Yucheng Wang , Xilai Wang , Zhiyuan Li , Xinyu Wang , Hongyu Liu , Ruofan Liang
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Songchun Zhang Yuxuan Xue Qifeng Chen
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classification cs.CV
keywords video relightingdiffusion modelsreal-time generationstreaming videointeractive lighting controlMulti-Plane Light Irradiancefew-step distillationtemporal coherence
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The paper sets out to move video relighting from an offline, clip-level render to a live creative instrument: instead of specifying the whole lighting trajectory up front and waiting for a batch result, a user drags a virtual 3D light and watches the relit frames stream out. Its central claim is that a diffusion model can do this at interactive speed—roughly 16 frames per second, with a 16-frame clip processed in about one second of latency—while producing output that is more temporally stable and more controllable than offline baselines, on both short clips and 256- to 512-frame videos. Three mechanisms carry the claim: a lightweight adapter that injects depth-aware Multi-Plane Light Irradiance maps into a pretrained diffusion backbone; a training-only geometry feedback branch that keeps shading consistent with estimated depth and normals despite a four-step denoising budget; and a rolling-window denoising ladder that emits each chunk once while retaining latent context, so latency stays bounded and stream length does not. If the claim is right, relighting stops being a re-render and becomes a real-time parameter you can turn while the video plays.

Core claim

LiveLight shows that real-time interactive video relighting is achievable inside a diffusion model by replacing the offline 'trajectory first, render later' workflow with a streaming one. Three designs work together: a 12-channel depth-aware Multi-Plane Light Irradiance condition, built by projecting the user's light onto four fronto-parallel depth planes and injected through a one-million-parameter cross-attention adapter, keeps light position, intensity, and color explicit and editable per frame; a training-only geometry feedback branch, supervised by a frozen depth-and-normal estimator, preserves geometric plausibility when inference is capped at four denoising steps; and a rolling window

What carries the argument

The central object is the Multi-Plane Light Irradiance (MPLI) condition: the user's light is projected onto four fronto-parallel depth planes around the subject, yielding a 12-channel, depth-aware tensor that encodes 3D light geometry. A ~1M-parameter adapter turns this tensor into lighting tokens, injected by cross-attention into the shallow layers of a Stable Diffusion-based backbone, so updating the light only means recomputing and re-encoding the MPLI map. Two further mechanisms carry speed and streaming: a training-only geometry feedback branch (Eq. 4) back-propagates depth and normal errors from a frozen estimator, keeping four-step denoising geometrically plausible at zero inference c

Load-bearing premise

The entire pipeline depends on a pretrained depth-and-normal estimator: it builds the lighting condition at inference and supervises training-time geometry, so wherever that estimator is wrong—complex hairstyles, occlusions, extreme poses—the claimed relighting fidelity degrades.

What would settle it

Run LiveLight on videos where the monocular depth estimator is known to fail (heavy occlusion, complex hair, unusual poses) and compare against a synthetic ground-truth relighting render: if fidelity (PSNR/SSIM, shadow placement) does not drop relative to simple-geometry control videos, the depth prior is less load-bearing than claimed; if it collapses, the central claim fails. A cleaner quantitative probe: perturb the depth map used to build the MPLI condition (e.g., ±10% plane shifts) and measure the drop in lighting-tracking accuracy and temporal consistency—that drop measures how much of t

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If this is right

  • Video relighting becomes a live parameter: position, intensity, and color of a light can be changed while the output is streaming, with the model following per frame instead of per clip.
  • Temporal coherence over long videos is achieved without overlap re-generation or blending, so latency stays roughly constant (~1.01 s per 16-frame clip) while stream length is unbounded.
  • The TinyVAE variant raises throughput to 18.34 FPS with marginal quality loss, showing the pipeline can trade decoder fidelity for interactivity whenever latency is the priority.
  • Geometry-guided feedback offers a recipe for few-step diffusion distillation that does not sacrifice shading plausibility, because the constraints are imposed offline and add no inference cost.
  • Releasing the models, training data, and the synthetic UE5 generator would give the community a shared, controllable benchmark for interactive relighting.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Because the lighting condition is recomputed per frame, LiveLight could double as an interactive light-scripting tool—animating a light along a keyframed path or syncing color shifts to audio—which the paper only gestures at as 'dynamic control'.
  • The admitted failure modes (complex hairstyles, occlusions, extreme poses) all trace to the depth prior, so coupling the pipeline to a more robust or user-correctable geometry source is the most direct route to broader coverage; the paper leaves that coupling unexplored.
  • None of the three designs except the MPLI map itself is lighting-specific, so the same recipe—compact physical condition, training-only geometry feedback, rolling-window ladder—plausibly transfers to other per-frame controllable video edits such as camera or pose.
  • A stress test the paper does not report: measuring appearance and lighting drift over streams of thousands of frames, to quantify how tightly the rolling window bounds error accumulation relative to overlap-blending alternatives.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper presents LiveLight, a diffusion-based framework for real-time streaming video relighting with interactive 3D lighting control. The method has three components: (i) a lightweight adapter that injects a Multi-Plane Light Irradiance (MPLI) condition into the diffusion backbone; (ii) few-step diffusion distillation with a geometry-guided feedback branch that supervises depth and normal consistency at training time; and (iii) a rolling-window streaming strategy over latent micro-chunks that emits frames with per-frame reference refresh. The model is trained on a large UE5-rendered paired dataset. Experiments compare LiveLight with AnyV2V, LightCtrl, Light-A-Video, and TC-Light on real Internet videos, synthetic UE5 sequences, and a user study, reporting 15.78 FPS with the standard SD VAE (18.34 FPS with TinyVAE) and 1.01 s per 16-frame clip. Section 5 candidly lists limitations, including reliance on off-the-shelf depth/normal estimators and artifacts on small faces and high-frequency details.

Significance. If the reported results hold, LiveLight would be a meaningful step toward interactive, streaming video relighting: the rolling-window latent propagation is a sensible way to bound latency while maintaining temporal coherence, and the training-time geometry feedback is a clean way to preserve structure without adding inference cost. The three-stage ablation study is internally consistent, and the authors' promise to release models, data, and the synthetic generator would be a valuable community contribution. However, the evaluation as written does not yet support the headline 'state-of-the-art' and 'significantly outperforming' claims: the closest baseline is omitted, the synthetic evaluation may use oracle geometry, the quantitative metrics lack statistical grounding, and real-world transfer is not quantitatively tested.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3.2, Eq. (2); §4.3, Tables 1–3] The MPLI condition is taken from RelightMaster [1], which is itself a video relighting method, yet it appears in references only as the representation source and is never included in any quantitative comparison. Without this baseline, the claim that LiveLight achieves 'state-of-the-art relighting quality' is not testable. Please add RelightMaster to Tables 1–3, or explain why it is not a valid baseline for this setting.
  2. [§3.2, Eq. (2); §4.3, Table 2; §5] The synthetic margin in Table 2 (43.264 PSNR vs 39.726 for TC-Light) is only meaningful if the deployed geometry pipeline is used at evaluation. The text does not state whether the MPLI condition in Table 2 is built from the off-the-shelf monocular depth estimator or from the UE5-exported ground-truth depth. Training-data synthesis (Sec. 3.1) exports GT depth, while Eq. (2) refers to 'estimated subject depth d_i'; Sec. 5 admits the estimator is unreliable for complex hair, occlusions, and extreme poses. If GT depth was used, the result measures an oracle-geometry system. Please specify the evaluation protocol and, if GT depth was used, rerun with the deployed estimator and report the drop.
  3. [§4.3, Tables 1–3; user study] The quantitative claims are single numbers with no confidence intervals or significance tests; several VBench margins are small (e.g., Temporal Cons. 0.9872 vs 0.9799 in Table 1), so 'significantly outperforming' is not established. The two relighting-specific metrics in Table 1 are nonstandard: PSNR_y is computed against a pure-white reference inside a mask, which rewards over-brightening rather than correct illumination, and PSNR_light is computed against an overlay of the target light map, not against calibrated ground truth. The synthetic test set (Table 2) is rendered by the same UE5 pipeline used for training, so it is not an independent test of real-world transfer. Add error bars/paired tests, validate the custom metrics, and evaluate on real-world data with known lighting.
  4. [§3.4; §4.3, Table 1] Real-time interactivity is the central claim, but only FPS and total clip time are reported. With a rolling window of K micro-chunks, chunk size M=4, and per-frame reference refresh, end-to-end latency from a user light change to the displayed output is not determined by throughput alone. Please report startup latency, per-frame incremental latency, and memory usage for arbitrarily long streams.
minor comments (6)
  1. [§3.4] The text says 'Details are provided in Appendix??' — this unresolved reference should be fixed before submission.
  2. [Tables 1–3; Fig. 6] The baseline 'AnyV2V' is cited as [64], but reference [64] is the IC-Light paper. Provide the correct AnyV2V citation and clarify the IC-Light+AnyV2V pipeline described in Sec. 4.3.
  3. [Fig. 3b; §3.3] Fig. 3b shows a 'Stop Grad' path, but the text does not specify exactly which branches are detached during the m-step distillation rollout. Clarify the gradient flow.
  4. [Eq. (6)] The Stage 1 objective uses \hat{z}_0 and z_0 without defining the prediction head or whether this is a z0-prediction variant of the standard SD loss. Make the objective and the role of \tau and \epsilon precise.
  5. [Table 2; Fig. 5] Table 2 has the typo '10 different scene' (should be 'scenes'). Fig. 5 reports relative improvements but the axes and raw curves are not labeled.
  6. [§3.2; §5] The specific off-the-shelf depth/normal estimator used for MPLI construction and geometry feedback is never named. Specify the architecture and source of this estimator, since Sec. 5 identifies it as a source of failure.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the derivation is a forward-trained conditional pipeline; evaluation and support concerns are not definitional circularity.

full rationale

LiveLight's derivation chain is not circular. The MPLI condition (Eq. 2) is an input representation adopted from RelightMaster [1], not a quantity the paper claims to derive; the lightweight adapter (Eq. 3), few-step distillation (Sec. 3.3), geometry-guided feedback (Eq. 4), and rolling-window scheme (Eq. 5) are all trained end-to-end on paired synthetic renders and then evaluated forward. No parameter is fitted to the evaluation set, and no reported 'prediction' reduces by construction to a training input or to a fitted value. The synthetic benchmark in Table 2 comes from the same UE5 generator as the training data, but the paper states the evaluation scenes and lights are unseen; this is a distribution-match and benchmark-fairness concern, not a definitional circularity. The more salient issues—omission of RelightMaster [1] from comparisons, ambiguity about whether synthetic evaluation uses ground-truth depth or the deployed monocular estimator, the unresolved 'Appendix??' reference in Sec. 3.4, and the acknowledged geometry-estimator limitation in Sec. 5—are correctness and evidence concerns, not circular steps. Self-citations appear in related work and background but are not load-bearing; the load-bearing MPLI citation [1] is not authored by the present paper's authors. Therefore the central claim retains independent content.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

6 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on a large synthetic dataset and an off-the-shelf geometry estimator; the paper contributes a system integration, not new physics or entities. The free parameters are mostly standard hyperparameters, with the most consequential choices (P, M, denoising steps) guided by ablations.

free parameters (6)
  • Number of MPLI planes P = 4
    Set to 4 based on ablation across P=2,4,8 (Table 5). The choice affects depth-dependent lighting controllability and model capacity.
  • Micro-chunk size M = 4
    Set to 4 based on ablation across M=2,4,8 (Table 5). It trades temporal coherence against latency and memory.
  • Number of distillation denoising steps = 4
    Set to 4 based on ablation across 2,4,8 steps (Table 5). More steps improve quality marginally but reduce FPS; fewer steps introduce artifacts.
  • Reconstruction and geometry loss weights (lambda_mse, lambda_lpips, lambda_geo, lambda_N) = not reported
    Weights are used in Eqs. (7) and (8) but their numerical values are not given in the paper. They are presumably tuned by hand.
  • Light intensity range for synthetic data = [0.5, 1.5] normalized UE units
    Chosen in Section 3.1 to sample target lighting conditions; affects the distribution of relighting effects seen in training.
  • Color vs white illumination ratio in synthetic data = 6:4
    Chosen in Section 3.1 to balance colored and white light training examples.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption MPLI representation is a sufficient carrier of lighting information for video relighting
    The entire method builds on the MPLI condition from RelightMaster [1] (Section 3.2, Eq. 2). The paper does not justify why MPLI captures the relevant physical lighting effects.
  • domain assumption Pretrained Stable Diffusion and AnimateDiff weights provide useful priors that survive fine-tuning
    Stage 1 initializes from Stable Diffusion and Stage 3 from AnimateDiff motion modules (Section 4.2). The success depends on these priors being preserved during relighting adaptation.
  • domain assumption The frozen off-the-shelf geometry estimator provides reliable depth and normals on synthetic and real images
    The geometry-guided feedback branch (Section 3.3, Eq. 4) and the MPLI construction (Eq. 2) rely on depth/normal estimates. The paper's own Limitation section admits this can fail on complex hairstyles, occlusions, and extreme poses.
  • domain assumption Synthetic UE5 renders with domain randomization transfer to real-world videos
    All paired training data comes from a self-built UE5 renderer (Section 3.1). There is no quantitative real-world ground truth; the paper shows only qualitative real-video results, so the domain transfer is assumed.
  • standard math Standard diffusion denoising and distillation equations
    The training objectives in Section 3.5 use standard L2 denoising and perceptual losses. These are accepted background math.

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We present LiveLight, the first diffusion-based framework for real-time streaming video relighting with interactive 3D lighting control. Achieving this is non-trivial, as it requires overcoming three critical challenges: effectively injecting dynamic 3D lighting into a diffusion model, maintaining high-fidelity generation under an extremely low NFE (Number of Function Evaluations) budget for real-time speed, and facilitating continuous streaming for interactive control. To address these pain points, we propose three key designs. First, for accurate lighting injection, we propose a lightweight adapter that feeds Multi-Plane Light Irradiance (MPLI) conditions-depth-aware irradiance maps encoding 3D lighting geometry-directly into the diffusion backbone. Second, to prevent rendering quality degradation at low NFEs towards real-time distillation, we introduce a geometry-guided feedback branch. This training-time constraint leverages a frozen geometry estimator to enforce depth- and normal-consistent relighting, ensuring geometrically plausible shading without adding inference overhead. Finally, to enable streaming interaction, we develop a progressive rolling-window strategy that maintains a denoising ladder of latent chunks at varying noise levels. By propagating intermediate states, this strategy guarantees temporal coherence and supports arbitrarily long video relighting with per-frame reference refresh. Extensive experiments on real-world and synthetic benchmarks demonstrate that LiveLight achieves state-of-the-art relighting quality while running at real-time speed, significantly outperforming offline baselines in temporal stability, lighting controllability, and user preference. To foster real-time interactive relighting research, we will publicly release our models, training data, and synthetic data generator.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2608.01771 by Hongyu Liu, Jiangming Wang, Qifeng Chen, Ruofan Liang, Songchun Zhang, Xilai Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yucheng Wang, Yue Ma, Yuxuan Xue, Zhiyuan Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Showcase of the proposed LiveLight. LiveLight enables real-time streaming video relighting with interactive 3D point-light control, supporting dynamic adjustment of light position, intensity, and color while preserving temporal coherence and visual quality. Abstract We present LiveLight, the first diffusion-based framework for real-time streaming video relighting with interactive 3D lighting control. Achie… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Motivation for LiveLight. Previous offline video re￾lighting methods require the entire input video and a pre-defined lighting trajectory before generation, producing a fixed-length out￾put after a long waiting time. In contrast, LiveLight processes in￾put frames in a streaming fashion with per-frame dynamic lighting control, producing relit frames with low latency and supporting ar￾bitrarily long video ge… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of LiveLight. (a) We first perform lightweight multi-plane image relighting by constructing a multi-plane irradiance representation from the target light and estimated depth. The resulting MPLI condition is encoded by the light encoder and injected into the diffusion relighting backbone together with the reference image. (b) To improve structure-preserving relighting, we introduce a geometry￾guide… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Overview of our synthetic relighting data synthe￾sis pipeline. We randomly combine diverse 3D assets (humans, animals, and objects) with animations and indoor/outdoor scenes, and render them in Unreal Engine 5 under controllable point lights with varying positions, intensities, and colors. For each frame, the renderer exports the RGB image along with depth map and surface normal map for geometry-aware supe… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Geometry-guided feedback for structure-preserving relighting. Compared with the baseline without geometry-guided feedback, our model maintains lower LPIPS and MSE, especially in the later training stage. Over the last 10% of steps, these met￾rics are 7.8% and 19.0% better, respectively. This indicates that depth-normal feedback provides an effective geometric regulariza￾tion toward consistent relighting. t… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of previous lighting control methods. LiveLight outperforms existing methods in terms of controllability, temporal stability, and real-time efficiency. geometry-guided feedback branch and fine-tune the relight￾ing model with geometry-aware supervision. This stage is trained for 20K iterations with a batch size of 16, keeping the geometry estimator frozen. In Stage 3, we insert tempo￾ral attentio… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visual results of real-time lighting control with LiveLight. LiveLight enables high-quality relighting video generation under target lighting while preserving the content and motion of the input video [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: User study. We conduct a user study to evaluate the perceptual quality of relighting videos generated by LiveLight and baseline methods. Participants are asked to rate each result in terms of light control, appearance consistency, temporal consistency, and motion fidelity. LiveLight receives the highest preference across all criteria, demonstrating its ability to produce controllable, visually consistent,… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visual results of diverse color lighting control with LiveLight. LiveLight supports real-time lighting control with different colors and positions, producing temporally coherent relighting results across dynamic videos. that the VAE decoder is not the quality bottleneck and can be swapped for faster alternatives when latency is priori￾tized. In all other experiments, we use the standard SD VAE for fair co… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Visual ablation study of the rolling-window strategy. Removing the rolling-window strategy leads to temporal flickering and unstable lighting across chunks. By propagating through the rolling window, our method maintains coherent illumination and stable appearance over time. Input Num=2 Num=4 Num=8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visual ablation study of the number of MPLI planes. With P=2, the model cannot capture depth-dependent lighting, limiting 3D controllability. P=8 yields marginal gains over P=4 with added parameters. We adopt P=4 as the default. the rolling-window inference process during training. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Visual ablation study of distillation denoising steps. Distilling to 2 steps (23.17 fps) introduces visible facial artifacts. Using 8 steps (9.43 fps) yields marginal quality gains over 4 steps (15.78 fps). We adopt 4 steps as the default for optimal quality– speed balance. Input Channel concat Ours ControlNet 18.21fps 15.78fps 10.13fps [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visual ablation study of micro-chunk size. M=2 (16.61 fps) causes severe temporal instability. M=8 (11.17 fps) improves coherence but reduces throughput. We adopt M=4 (15.78 fps) for the best latency–quality balance. Input SD VAE Tiny VAE 15.78fps 18.34fps [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Visual ablation study of the geometry-guided feed￾back branch. Removing depth (W/o Depth) or normal (W/o Normal) supervision produces highlights and shadows inconsis￾tent with the surface geometry. The full feedback yields the most geometrically plausible relighting. Input Result Input Result [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Visual ablation study of VAE decoder. The Tiny VAE (18.34 fps) produces visual quality comparable to the SD VAE (15.78 fps) while offering faster decoding, making it well suited for real-time streaming. sue. Finally, the geometry-guided feedback branch relies on the accuracy of off-the-shelf depth and normal estimators. When the geometry estimation is inaccurate—particularly for complex hairstyles, occlus… view at source ↗

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