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I’d be interested to hear you elaborate on exactly how these attempts failed. What goes wrong if you look at vectors of the form vb+αvh for α∈R and vb,vh the vectors in latent space that you identify for brightness and height respectively, and then do some kind of manual binary search on α to eyeball the value that cancels out the brightness factor? Do you run into a collinearity problem when you try this, for instance?