Binary Opacity Grids: Capturing Fine Geometric Detail for Mesh-Based View Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12377v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:59:41 GMT
• Title: Binary Opacity Grids: Capturing Fine Geometric Detail for Mesh-Based View Synthesis
• Authors: Christian Reiser, Stephan Garbin, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Dor Verbin, Richard Szeliski, Ben Mildenhall, Jonathan T. Barron, Peter Hedman, Andreas Geiger
• Abstract summary: We modify density fields to encourage them to converge towards surfaces, without compromising their ability to reconstruct thin structures. We also develop a fusion-based meshing strategy followed by mesh simplification and appearance model fitting. The compact meshes produced by our model can be rendered in real-time on mobile devices.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: While surface-based view synthesis algorithms are appealing due to their low computational requirements, they often struggle to reproduce thin structures. In contrast, more expensive methods that model the scene's geometry as a volumetric density field (e.g. NeRF) excel at reconstructing fine geometric detail. However, density fields often represent geometry in a "fuzzy" manner, which hinders exact localization of the surface. In this work, we modify density fields to encourage them to converge towards surfaces, without compromising their ability to reconstruct thin structures. First, we employ a discrete opacity grid representation instead of a continuous density field, which allows opacity values to discontinuously transition from zero to one at the surface. Second, we anti-alias by casting multiple rays per pixel, which allows occlusion boundaries and subpixel structures to be modelled without using semi-transparent voxels. Third, we minimize the binary entropy of the opacity values, which facilitates the extraction of surface geometry by encouraging opacity values to binarize towards the end of training. Lastly, we develop a fusion-based meshing strategy followed by mesh simplification and appearance model fitting. The compact meshes produced by our model can be rendered in real-time on mobile devices and achieve significantly higher view synthesis quality compared to existing mesh-based approaches.

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