Differentiable Surface Rendering via Non-Differentiable Sampling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04886v1
• Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:25:06 GMT
• Title: Differentiable Surface Rendering via Non-Differentiable Sampling
• Authors: Forrester Cole, Kyle Genova, Avneesh Sud, Daniel Vlasic, Zhoutong Zhang
• Abstract summary: We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations. We show for the first time efficient, differentiable rendering of an iso extracted from a neural radiance field (NeRF), and demonstrate surface-based, rather than volume-based, rendering of a NeRF.
• Score: 19.606523934811577
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a method for differentiable rendering of 3D surfaces that supports both explicit and implicit representations, provides derivatives at occlusion boundaries, and is fast and simple to implement. The method first samples the surface using non-differentiable rasterization, then applies differentiable, depth-aware point splatting to produce the final image. Our approach requires no differentiable meshing or rasterization steps, making it efficient for large 3D models and applicable to isosurfaces extracted from implicit surface definitions. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for implicit-, mesh-, and parametric-surface-based inverse rendering and neural-network training applications. In particular, we show for the first time efficient, differentiable rendering of an isosurface extracted from a neural radiance field (NeRF), and demonstrate surface-based, rather than volume-based, rendering of a NeRF.

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