PC-NeRF: Parent-Child Neural Radiance Fields Using Sparse LiDAR Frames in Autonomous Driving Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09325v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:16:39 GMT
• Title: PC-NeRF: Parent-Child Neural Radiance Fields Using Sparse LiDAR Frames in Autonomous Driving Environments
• Authors: Xiuzhong Hu, Guangming Xiong, Zheng Zang, Peng Jia, Yuxuan Han, Junyi Ma
• Abstract summary: We propose a 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis framework called parent-child neural radiance field (PC-NeRF) PC-NeRF implements hierarchical spatial partitioning and multi-level scene representation, including scene, segment, and point levels. With extensive experiments, PC-NeRF is proven to achieve high-precision novel LiDAR view synthesis and 3D reconstruction in large-scale scenes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis are vital for autonomous vehicles, especially utilizing temporally sparse LiDAR frames. However, conventional explicit representations remain a significant bottleneck towards representing the reconstructed and synthetic scenes at unlimited resolution. Although the recently developed neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown compelling results in implicit representations, the problem of large-scale 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis using sparse LiDAR frames remains unexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose a 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis framework called parent-child neural radiance field (PC-NeRF). Based on its two modules, parent NeRF and child NeRF, the framework implements hierarchical spatial partitioning and multi-level scene representation, including scene, segment, and point levels. The multi-level scene representation enhances the efficient utilization of sparse LiDAR point cloud data and enables the rapid acquisition of an approximate volumetric scene representation. With extensive experiments, PC-NeRF is proven to achieve high-precision novel LiDAR view synthesis and 3D reconstruction in large-scale scenes. Moreover, PC-NeRF can effectively handle situations with sparse LiDAR frames and demonstrate high deployment efficiency with limited training epochs. Our approach implementation and the pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/biter0088/pc-nerf.

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