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CANDLE: Illumination-Invariant Semantic Priors for Color Ambient Lighting Normalization

Rong-Lin Jian , Ting-Yao Chen , Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Chih-Chung Hsu
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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords illumination normalizationcolor ambient lightingDINOv3 featuressemantic priorsimage restorationself-supervised learningchromatic shift correction
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The pith

DINOv3 self-supervised features stay consistent across colored and ambient lighting, enabling accurate recovery of intrinsic object colors.

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

The paper establishes that DINOv3 features extracted from images under multi-colored lights remain highly similar to those from the same scenes under neutral ambient light. This consistency supplies semantic guidance that is largely free of illumination-induced color bias, which existing geometric or low-level priors cannot provide when chromatic shifts dominate. The authors build CANDLE around this observation by injecting the features at multiple encoder layers and adding decoder-side filters to prevent color collapse and detail loss. Experiments report a 1.22 dB PSNR improvement on the CL3AN benchmark and competitive ranking in the NTIRE 2026 lighting normalization challenge.

Core claim

DINOv3 features remain highly consistent between colored-light inputs and ambient-lit ground truth; this property is exploited as illumination-robust semantic priors inside an encoder-decoder network that uses DINO Omni-layer Guidance to inject multi-layer features adaptively and color-frequency refinement modules (BFACG + SFFB) to suppress chromatic artifacts.

What carries the argument

DINO Omni-layer Guidance (D.O.G.) that adaptively injects multi-layer DINOv3 features into successive encoder stages, paired with a color-frequency refinement design (BFACG + SFFB) in the decoder.

If this is right

  • The network achieves a 1.22 dB PSNR gain over the previous best method on the CL3AN dataset.
  • CANDLE places third overall on the NTIRE 2026 ALN Color Lighting Challenge and second in fidelity on the White Lighting track with lowest FID.
  • The same design generalizes across both strongly chromatic and luminance-dominant illumination conditions.
  • Multi-layer DINO injection plus frequency-aware refinement reduces both highlight saturation and material-dependent reflectance errors.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same DINO consistency property could be tested on video frames to enforce temporally stable color normalization.
  • If the priors prove robust to other degradations, the approach might extend to joint lighting and shadow correction tasks.
  • Replacing DINOv3 with later self-supervised models could be measured to check whether newer feature sets further reduce residual color bias.
  • The method's reliance on a frozen backbone suggests it may run faster on edge devices than methods that retrain large illumination estimators.

Load-bearing premise

The consistency seen in DINOv3 features between colored and ambient conditions will carry over to the chosen network architecture and refinement modules without creating new color errors or losing fine detail.

What would settle it

A controlled test set of scenes with previously unseen material types and extreme colored highlights where the CANDLE output shows larger chromatic deviation from ground-truth ambient images than a strong baseline that does not use DINO features.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02785 by Chia-Ming Lee, Chih-Chung Hsu, Fu-En Yang, Rong-Lin Jian, Ting-Yao Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Yu-Fan Lin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: DINOv3 [24] features remain highly consistent under colored illumination. Despite severe appearance shifts between the colored-light input and the ambient-lit GT, DINOv3 PCA visualizations remain highly consistent across domains. Patch-wise cosine similarity maps (brighter = stronger consistency) show that DINOv3 preserves substantially higher similarity both on average (P) and in the hardest regions (W), … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Quantitative representation consistency over 10 in￾put/GT pairs. DINOv3 [24] achieves the highest average patch￾wise cosine similarity and the strongest robustness on the hardest 10% of regions (W), consistently outperforming CLIP [27] and ResNet-50 [12]. property stems from DINOv3’s self-supervised training ob￾jective, which encourages representations invariant to ap￾pearance variation while preserving ob… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of CANDLE. Multi-layer features from a frozen DINOv3 [24] ViT-L/16 are adaptively selected and fused via PSF and injected into successive encoder stages through DRFB (D.O.G., Sec. 3.1), replacing surface-normal guidance with illumination￾robust semantic priors. At the decoder, BFACG decouples structural and chromatic restoration under edge-aware modulation, while SFFB suppresses illumination-corru… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison with state-of-the-art methods on CL3AN [34]. General restoration methods [3, 42] exhibit washed￾out colors and incomplete correction under strong chromatic shifts. ALN-specific methods [31, 33] partially recover global color balance but remain inconsistent across materials, as frequency and geometric priors are insufficient when chromaticity shifts dominate. CANDLE recovers object-in… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Training dynamics of ablation variants. (a) D.O.G. sustains a peak gain of +3.68 dB over the unguided baseline, with the gap maintained across all training epochs, confirming a struc￾tural rather than incidental improvement. (b) Query-based fusion converges more stably than input-concat or value-fusion variants in later epochs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Color ambient lighting normalization under multi-colored illumination is challenging due to severe chromatic shifts, highlight saturation, and material-dependent reflectance. Existing geometric and low-level priors are insufficient for recovering object-intrinsic color when illumination-induced chromatic bias dominates. We observe that DINOv3's self-supervised features remain highly consistent between colored-light inputs and ambient-lit ground truth, motivating their use as illumination-robust semantic priors. We propose CANDLE (Color Ambient Normalization with DINO Layer Enhancement), which introduces DINO Omni-layer Guidance (D.O.G.) to adaptively inject multi-layer DINOv3 features into successive encoder stages, and a color-frequency refinement design (BFACG + SFFB) to suppress decoder-side chromatic collapse and detail contamination. Experiments on CL3AN show a +1.22 dB PSNR gain over the strongest prior method. CANDLE achieves 3rd place on the NTIRE 2026 ALN Color Lighting Challenge and 2nd place in fidelity on the White Lighting track with the lowest FID, confirming strong generalization across both chromatic and luminance-dominant illumination conditions. Code is available at https://github.com/ron941/CANDLE.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes CANDLE for color ambient lighting normalization under multi-colored illumination. It observes that DINOv3 self-supervised features are consistent across colored-light inputs and ambient ground truth, then introduces DINO Omni-layer Guidance (D.O.G.) to inject multi-layer DINOv3 features into encoder stages, plus color-frequency refinement blocks (BFACG + SFFB) in the decoder. On the CL3AN dataset it reports a +1.22 dB PSNR gain over prior methods, 3rd place on the NTIRE 2026 ALN Color Lighting Challenge, and 2nd place in fidelity on the White Lighting track with lowest FID.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work shows that off-the-shelf self-supervised ViT features can serve as illumination-robust semantic priors for low-level normalization tasks without task-specific fine-tuning. The challenge rankings provide external validation of generalization across chromatic and luminance-dominant conditions, and the parameter-free nature of the DINO prior is a clear strength.

major comments (3)
  1. [Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract reports a +1.22 dB PSNR gain and challenge rankings, yet no error bars, multiple-run statistics, or ablation tables are referenced; without these the robustness of the improvement cannot be assessed and the central claim remains under-supported.
  2. [Section 3.1] Motivation and Section 3.1: the claim that DINOv3 features remain highly consistent between colored-light inputs and ambient ground truth is stated qualitatively but never quantified (no cosine similarity, CKA, or layer-wise distance metrics are provided), so the motivation for D.O.G. injection rests on an unverified assumption.
  3. [Ablation studies] Ablation studies: no experiment removes D.O.G. while retaining B FACG + SFFB (or vice versa); the end-to-end PSNR gain therefore does not isolate whether the DINO priors contribute meaningfully or whether the color-frequency refinement blocks alone suffice.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: acronyms D.O.G., B FACG and SFFB appear without parenthetical expansions on first use.
  2. [Figure 1] Figure 1: the architecture diagram would benefit from explicit arrows or labels indicating the precise encoder stages where D.O.G. features are injected.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We agree that the experimental section requires stronger statistical support and more complete ablations to substantiate the claims. We will revise the manuscript to address all three points by adding the requested analyses and metrics.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: the abstract reports a +1.22 dB PSNR gain and challenge rankings, yet no error bars, multiple-run statistics, or ablation tables are referenced; without these the robustness of the improvement cannot be assessed and the central claim remains under-supported.

    Authors: We agree that reporting error bars and multiple-run statistics is necessary to demonstrate robustness. In the revised manuscript we will add mean PSNR and standard deviation computed over five independent training runs for the CL3AN results, include error bars on the main comparison table, and clarify that the challenge rankings reflect a single fixed submission. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Section 3.1] Motivation and Section 3.1: the claim that DINOv3 features remain highly consistent between colored-light inputs and ambient ground truth is stated qualitatively but never quantified (no cosine similarity, CKA, or layer-wise distance metrics are provided), so the motivation for D.O.G. injection rests on an unverified assumption.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the consistency claim was presented only qualitatively. We will add a new quantitative analysis subsection in the revised Section 3.1 that reports layer-wise cosine similarity and CKA scores between DINOv3 features of colored-light inputs and their ambient ground-truth counterparts, thereby providing empirical grounding for the D.O.G. design. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Ablation studies] Ablation studies: no experiment removes D.O.G. while retaining B FACG + SFFB (or vice versa); the end-to-end PSNR gain therefore does not isolate whether the DINO priors contribute meaningfully or whether the color-frequency refinement blocks alone suffice.

    Authors: We agree that the current ablations do not fully isolate the contribution of each component. We will add a new ablation table in the revised manuscript that includes a variant with D.O.G. removed while retaining B FACG and SFFB, reporting the resulting PSNR to quantify the incremental benefit of the DINO priors. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: external DINOv3 prior and independent architectural modules

full rationale

The derivation begins with an empirical observation of DINOv3 feature consistency (external model, not fitted on target lighting data) and proceeds to architectural choices (D.O.G. injection, B FACG + SFFB refinement). No equations reduce a prediction to a fitted input by construction, no self-citations load-bear the central claim, and no ansatz or uniqueness theorem is smuggled in. The reported PSNR gains and challenge rankings are end-to-end empirical results on CL3AN and NTIRE tracks, not self-referential definitions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on one domain assumption about DINOv3 feature invariance; no free parameters or new invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption DINOv3 self-supervised features remain highly consistent between colored-light inputs and ambient-lit ground truth
    Stated as the motivating observation that justifies using DINOv3 as semantic priors.

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