MEIL-NeRF: Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning of Neural Radiance Fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08328v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:04:56 GMT
• Title: MEIL-NeRF: Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning of Neural Radiance Fields
• Authors: Jaeyoung Chung, Kanggeon Lee, Sungyong Baik, Kyoung Mu Lee
• Abstract summary: We develop a Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning algorithm for NeRF (MEIL-NeRF) MEIL-NeRF takes inspiration from NeRF itself in that a neural network can serve as a memory that provides the pixel RGB values, given rays as queries. As a result, MEIL-NeRF demonstrates constant memory consumption and competitive performance.
• Score: 49.68916478541697
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hinged on the representation power of neural networks, neural radiance fields (NeRF) have recently emerged as one of the promising and widely applicable methods for 3D object and scene representation. However, NeRF faces challenges in practical applications, such as large-scale scenes and edge devices with a limited amount of memory, where data needs to be processed sequentially. Under such incremental learning scenarios, neural networks are known to suffer catastrophic forgetting: easily forgetting previously seen data after training with new data. We observe that previous incremental learning algorithms are limited by either low performance or memory scalability issues. As such, we develop a Memory-Efficient Incremental Learning algorithm for NeRF (MEIL-NeRF). MEIL-NeRF takes inspiration from NeRF itself in that a neural network can serve as a memory that provides the pixel RGB values, given rays as queries. Upon the motivation, our framework learns which rays to query NeRF to extract previous pixel values. The extracted pixel values are then used to train NeRF in a self-distillation manner to prevent catastrophic forgetting. As a result, MEIL-NeRF demonstrates constant memory consumption and competitive performance.

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