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In one sentence

A curated public-domain list of relighting research papers, datasets, and tools for changing lighting in images, video, and 3D scenes.

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  root((Awesome Relight))
    What it does
      Curated link list
      Covers relighting research
      Not runnable code
    Categories
      Image and scene relighting
      Video relighting
      Portrait and human relighting
      3D and NeRF relighting
    Resources
      Papers and surveys
      Datasets and benchmarks
      Demos and software
    Audience
      Researchers
      Computer vision students
      Tool builders

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Find recent papers and code on relighting portraits, scenes, or video.

USE CASE 2

Locate datasets and benchmarks for testing a relighting model.

USE CASE 3

Discover existing demos or software products that do image relighting.

USE CASE 4

Track workshops and challenges related to lighting estimation and control.

How does it compare?

houyuanchen111/awesome-relight0c33/agentic-ai0xbebis/hyperpay
Stars141414
LanguagePythonTypeScript
Setup difficultyeasyhardhard
Complexity1/54/55/5
Audienceresearcherdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Placed in the public domain (CC0-1.0), anyone can use, copy, or modify it for any purpose without restriction.

So what is it?

Awesome Relight is not a piece of software you install and run. It is a curated list, a single page of organized links, pointing to research papers, datasets, benchmarks, demos, and tools about relighting. Relighting means changing how light falls on something in an image, video, or 3D scene after it was captured or generated, so a photo taken at noon could be made to look like it was shot at sunset, or a portrait could be lit from a different angle without reshooting it. The list covers this topic from many angles: general surveys of the field, relighting of whole scenes and photos, relighting for video, and relighting focused specifically on portraits, faces, and human bodies. It also tracks work on 3D representations such as NeRF and Gaussian splatting, relighting for driving and robotics footage, security and robustness concerns tied to relighting, and even reinforcement learning approaches. Beyond papers, it collects datasets and benchmarks researchers use to test their methods, workshops and challenges from academic conferences, and actual software, demos, and products people can try. Each entry typically links out to the paper itself, an arXiv preprint, a project website, or a GitHub code repository, so a reader can go from a one line description straight to the source. The project describes its own goal as organizing this work by task and representation rather than just listing things by publication date, so someone new to the topic can find the corner of the field that matches what they are trying to build or study. The repository is released under the CC0-1.0 license, meaning it is placed in the public domain with no restrictions on reuse. It has 14 stars and welcomes contributions through pull requests for missing papers, datasets, code releases, or software links, following a separate contributing guide. There is no programming language associated with the project since it is a reference list rather than a codebase. The full README is longer than what was shown.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Summarize the main categories of relighting research covered in the Awesome-Relight list.
Prompt 2
Which papers in this list focus on portrait or face relighting using diffusion models?
Prompt 3
Explain what inverse rendering and lighting estimation mean using examples from this list.
Prompt 4
Suggest which dataset from this list I should use to benchmark a new relighting method.

Frequently asked questions

What is awesome-relight?

A curated public-domain list of relighting research papers, datasets, and tools for changing lighting in images, video, and 3D scenes.

What license does awesome-relight use?

Placed in the public domain (CC0-1.0), anyone can use, copy, or modify it for any purpose without restriction.

How hard is awesome-relight to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is awesome-relight for?

Mainly researcher.

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