OccNeRF: Advancing 3D Occupancy Prediction in LiDAR-Free Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09243v3
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:24:49 GMT
• Title: OccNeRF: Advancing 3D Occupancy Prediction in LiDAR-Free Environments
• Authors: Chubin Zhang, Juncheng Yan, Yi Wei, Jiaxin Li, Li Liu, Yansong Tang, Yueqi Duan, Jiwen Lu,
• Abstract summary: We propose an OccNeRF method for training occupancy networks without 3D supervision. We parameterize the reconstructed occupancy fields and reorganize the sampling strategy to align with the cameras' infinite perceptive range. For semantic occupancy prediction, we design several strategies to polish the prompts and filter the outputs of a pretrained open-vocabulary 2D segmentation model.
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• Abstract: Occupancy prediction reconstructs 3D structures of surrounding environments. It provides detailed information for autonomous driving planning and navigation. However, most existing methods heavily rely on the LiDAR point clouds to generate occupancy ground truth, which is not available in the vision-based system. In this paper, we propose an OccNeRF method for training occupancy networks without 3D supervision. Different from previous works which consider a bounded scene, we parameterize the reconstructed occupancy fields and reorganize the sampling strategy to align with the cameras' infinite perceptive range. The neural rendering is adopted to convert occupancy fields to multi-camera depth maps, supervised by multi-frame photometric consistency. Moreover, for semantic occupancy prediction, we design several strategies to polish the prompts and filter the outputs of a pretrained open-vocabulary 2D segmentation model. Extensive experiments for both self-supervised depth estimation and 3D occupancy prediction tasks on nuScenes and SemanticKITTI datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

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