OpenDelight — Facial Appearance Delighting

Removes baked-in illumination and shadows from an in-the-wild face photo, recovering a clean, evenly lit diffuse appearance. This demo runs the full pipeline from OpenDelight (SIGGRAPH 2026): background matting, skin-region masking, FFHQ alignment, the MAE-based delighting network, and a detail-enhancement UNet.

Upload a front-facing portrait (or pick an example) and press Delight.

Pipeline stages

@inproceedings{han2026opendelight,
    author = {Han, Yuxuan and Ming, Xin and Li, Tianxiao and Shen, Zhuofan and Zhang, Qixuan and Xu, Lan and Xu, Feng},
    title = {Learning a Delighting Prior for Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild},
    booktitle = {SIGGRAPH},
    year = {2026}
}