MonoPatchNeRF: Improving Neural Radiance Fields with Patch-based Monocular Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08252v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 05:43:10 GMT
• Title: MonoPatchNeRF: Improving Neural Radiance Fields with Patch-based Monocular Guidance
• Authors: Yuqun Wu, Jae Yong Lee, Chuhang Zou, Shenlong Wang, Derek Hoiem,
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we aim to create 3D models that provide accurate geometry and view synthesis. We propose a patch-based approach that effectively leverages monocular surface normal and relative depth predictions. Trials show 4x the performance of RegNeRF and 8x that of FreeNeRF on average F1@2cm for ETH3D MVS benchmark.
• Score: 29.267039546199094
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The latest regularized Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approaches produce poor geometry and view extrapolation for multiview stereo (MVS) benchmarks such as ETH3D. In this paper, we aim to create 3D models that provide accurate geometry and view synthesis, partially closing the large geometric performance gap between NeRF and traditional MVS methods. We propose a patch-based approach that effectively leverages monocular surface normal and relative depth predictions. The patch-based ray sampling also enables the appearance regularization of normalized cross-correlation (NCC) and structural similarity (SSIM) between randomly sampled virtual and training views. We further show that "density restrictions" based on sparse structure-from-motion points can help greatly improve geometric accuracy with a slight drop in novel view synthesis metrics. Our experiments show 4x the performance of RegNeRF and 8x that of FreeNeRF on average F1@2cm for ETH3D MVS benchmark, suggesting a fruitful research direction to improve the geometric accuracy of NeRF-based models, and sheds light on a potential future approach to enable NeRF-based optimization to eventually outperform traditional MVS.

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