Stochastic Neural Radiance Fields:Quantifying Uncertainty in Implicit 3D Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02123v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 16:56:43 GMT
• Title: Stochastic Neural Radiance Fields:Quantifying Uncertainty in Implicit 3D Representations
• Authors: Jianxiong Shen, Adria Ruiz, Antonio Agudo, Francesc Moreno
• Abstract summary: Uncertainty quantification is a long-standing problem in Machine Learning. We propose Neural Radiance Fields (S-NeRF), a generalization of standard NeRF that learns a probability distribution over all the possible fields modeling the scene. S-NeRF is able to provide more reliable predictions and confidence values than generic approaches previously proposed for uncertainty estimation in other domains.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has become a popular framework for learning implicit 3D representations and addressing different tasks such as novel-view synthesis or depth-map estimation. However, in downstream applications where decisions need to be made based on automatic predictions, it is critical to leverage the confidence associated with the model estimations. Whereas uncertainty quantification is a long-standing problem in Machine Learning, it has been largely overlooked in the recent NeRF literature. In this context, we propose Stochastic Neural Radiance Fields (S-NeRF), a generalization of standard NeRF that learns a probability distribution over all the possible radiance fields modeling the scene. This distribution allows to quantify the uncertainty associated with the scene information provided by the model. S-NeRF optimization is posed as a Bayesian learning problem which is efficiently addressed using the Variational Inference framework. Exhaustive experiments over benchmark datasets demonstrate that S-NeRF is able to provide more reliable predictions and confidence values than generic approaches previously proposed for uncertainty estimation in other domains.

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