NeRF in detail: Learning to sample for view synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05264v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 17:59:10 GMT
• Title: NeRF in detail: Learning to sample for view synthesis
• Authors: Relja Arandjelovi\'c, Andrew Zisserman
• Abstract summary: Neural radiance fields (NeRF) methods have demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis. In this work we address a clear limitation of the vanilla coarse-to-fine approach -- that it is based on a performance and not trained end-to-end for the task at hand. We introduce a differentiable module that learns to propose samples and their importance for the fine network, and consider and compare multiple alternatives for its neural architecture.
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• Abstract: Neural radiance fields (NeRF) methods have demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis performance. The core approach is to render individual rays by querying a neural network at points sampled along the ray to obtain the density and colour of the sampled points, and integrating this information using the rendering equation. Since dense sampling is computationally prohibitive, a common solution is to perform coarse-to-fine sampling. In this work we address a clear limitation of the vanilla coarse-to-fine approach -- that it is based on a heuristic and not trained end-to-end for the task at hand. We introduce a differentiable module that learns to propose samples and their importance for the fine network, and consider and compare multiple alternatives for its neural architecture. Training the proposal module from scratch can be unstable due to lack of supervision, so an effective pre-training strategy is also put forward. The approach, named `NeRF in detail' (NeRF-ID), achieves superior view synthesis quality over NeRF and the state-of-the-art on the synthetic Blender benchmark and on par or better performance on the real LLFF-NeRF scenes. Furthermore, by leveraging the predicted sample importance, a 25% saving in computation can be achieved without significantly sacrificing the rendering quality.

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