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Albedo Estimation via Latent Bridge Matching

arxiv.org/abs/2609.09884

Updated 51 min ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Published
11 Sept 2026
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arXiv
2609.09884
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cs.CV
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Abstract

Recent advances in Intrinsic Image Decomposition (IID) have increasingly relied on generative models. However, progress remains limited by three key challenges: (a) insufficient physical consistency, (b) high computational cost at inference time, and (c) limited generalization capabilities. In this work, we show that latent bridge matching (LBM) effectively addresses these limitations for albedo estimation. We introduce a novel LBM-based architecture that enforces physical consistency through a pixel reconstruction loss, benefits from the inherent efficiency of LBM low-cost inference, and improves generalization across diverse datasets by incorporating a shading conditioning. In this extended version, we additionally show that conditioning the shading estimator itself on the predicted albedo further improves reconstruction fidelity, and we benchmark our best model against stateof-the-art IID methods across five real and synthetic datasets.

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Carme Corbi, David Serrano-Lozano, Javier Vazquez-Corral, Maria Vanrell

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2609.09884

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cs.CV, cs.AI

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Published
11 Sept 2026

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