SparseSat-NeRF: Dense Depth Supervised Neural Radiance Fields for Sparse Satellite Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00277v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 06:21:02 GMT
• Title: SparseSat-NeRF: Dense Depth Supervised Neural Radiance Fields for Sparse Satellite Images
• Authors: Lulin Zhang, Ewelina Rupnik
• Abstract summary: Digital surface model generation using traditional multi-view stereo matching (MVS) performs poorly over non-Lambertian surfaces. NeRF offer a new paradigm for reconstructing surface geometries using continuous volumetric representation. SpS-NeRF is an extension of Sat-NeRF adapted to sparse satellite views.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Digital surface model generation using traditional multi-view stereo matching (MVS) performs poorly over non-Lambertian surfaces, with asynchronous acquisitions, or at discontinuities. Neural radiance fields (NeRF) offer a new paradigm for reconstructing surface geometries using continuous volumetric representation. NeRF is self-supervised, does not require ground truth geometry for training, and provides an elegant way to include in its representation physical parameters about the scene, thus potentially remedying the challenging scenarios where MVS fails. However, NeRF and its variants require many views to produce convincing scene's geometries which in earth observation satellite imaging is rare. In this paper we present SparseSat-NeRF (SpS-NeRF) - an extension of Sat-NeRF adapted to sparse satellite views. SpS-NeRF employs dense depth supervision guided by crosscorrelation similarity metric provided by traditional semi-global MVS matching. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on stereo and tri-stereo Pleiades 1B/WorldView-3 images, and compare against NeRF and Sat-NeRF. The code is available at https://github.com/LulinZhang/SpS-NeRF

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