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Light4D: Training-Free Extreme Viewpoint 4D Video Relighting

arXiv 2602.11769 ↗First posted 12 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 2

On the map: Diffusion models → 3D, point cloud and scene generation

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have established a new paradigm for image and video relighting. However, extending these capabilities to 4D relighting remains challenging, due primarily to the scarcity of paired 4D relighting training data and the difficulty of maintaining temporal consistency across extreme viewpoints. In this work, we propose Light4D, a novel training-free framework designed to synthesize consistent 4D videos under target illumination, even under extreme viewpoint changes. First, we introduce Disentangled Flow Guidance, a time-aware strategy that effectively injects lighting control into the latent space while preserving geometric integrity. Second, to reinforce temporal consistency, we develop Temporal Consistent Attention within the IC-Light architecture and further incorporate deterministic regularization to eliminate appearance flickering. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance in temporal consistency and lighting fidelity, robustly handling camera rotations from -90 to 90. Code: https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/Light4D. Website: https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/Light4D.

Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 30 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Feb 2026.

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30 of 43 references.

Closest ancestors · 12

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  1. 2025OmniView: An All-Seeing Diffusion Model for 3D and 4D View Synthesis11 Dec
  2. 20254DNeX: Feed-Forward 4D Generative Modeling Made Easy18 Aug
  3. 2025LightLab: Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models14 May
  4. 2025HoloTime: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Panoramic 4D Scene Generation30 Apr
  5. 2025Comprehensive Relighting: Generalizable and Consistent Monocular Human Relighting and Harmonization3 Apr
  6. 2025Light-A-Video: Training-free Video Relighting via Progressive Light Fusion12 Feb
  7. 2025RelightVid: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Video Relighting27 Jan
  8. 2025SynthLight: Portrait Relighting with Diffusion Model by Learning to Re-render Synthetic Faces16 Jan
  9. 2024GenLit: Reformulating Single-Image Relighting as Video Generation15 Dec
  10. 2024LightIt: Illumination Modeling and Control for Diffusion Models15 Mar
  11. 2023DiFaReli++: Diffusion Face Relighting with Consistent Cast Shadows19 Apr
  12. 2021Neural Video Portrait Relighting in Real-time via Consistency Modeling1 Apr

Other references · 18

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,456
  2. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,029
  3. 2022LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text modelscited by 4,131
  4. 2025Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Modelscited by 2,536
  5. 20234D-fy: Text-to-4D Generation Using Hybrid Score Distillation Samplingcited by 184
  6. 2024SwitchLight: Co-design of Physics-driven Architecture and Pre-training Framework for Human Portrait Relightingcited by 66
  7. 2022Relighting4D: Neural Relightable Human from Videoscited by 41
  8. 2024DynamicCity: Large-Scale 4D Occupancy Generation from Dynamic Scenescited by 37
  9. 2025EX-4D: EXtreme Viewpoint 4D Video Synthesis via Depth Watertight Meshcited by 32
  10. 2024Disco4D: Disentangled 4D Human Generation and Animation from a Single Imagecited by 17
  11. 2023Relightable Neural Actor with Intrinsic Decomposition and Pose Controlcited by 11
  12. 2025Light-X: Generative 4D Video Rendering with Camera and Illumination Controlcited by 11
6 more
  1. 2025One4D: Unified 4D Generation and Reconstruction via Decoupled LoRA Controlcited by 8
  2. 2025BecomingLit: Relightable Gaussian Avatars with Hybrid Neural Shadingcited by 6
  3. 2025BEAM: Bridging Physically-based Rendering and Gaussian Modeling for Relightable Volumetric Videocited by 5
  4. 2025DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modelingcited by 5
  5. 2025DNF-Avatar: Distilling Neural Fields for Real-time Animatable Avatar Relightingcited by 2
  6. 2025Relightable and Dynamic Gaussian Avatar Reconstruction from Monocular Videocited by 2

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  1. 2025RelightMaster: Precise Video Relighting with Multi-plane Light Images
  2. 2025UniLumos: Fast and Unified Image and Video Relighting with Physics-Plausible Feedback
  3. 2025UniRelight: Learning Joint Decomposition and Synthesis for Video Relighting
  4. 2025ReLumix: Extending Image Relighting to Video via Video Diffusion Models
  5. 2026SyncLight: Single-Edit Multi-View Relighting
  6. 2025Lux Post Facto: Learning Portrait Performance Relighting with Conditional Video Diffusion and a Hybrid Dataset
  7. 2026LightCrafter: PBR-Conditioned Video Diffusion Refinement for Controllable and Consistent Relighting
  8. 2026LightCtrl: Training-free Controllable Video Relighting