Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01157v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:49:57 GMT
• Title: Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing
• Authors: Shrisudhan Govindarajan, Daniel Rebain, Kwang Moo Yi, Andrea Tagliasacchi,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel scene representation which avoids approximations, but keeps the efficiency and reconstruction quality of splatting. We leverage a decades-old efficient mesh ray tracing algorithm which has been largely overlooked in recent computer vision research.
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• Abstract: Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of radiance fields in favor of rasterization. This has yielded a significant improvement in rendering speeds due to the efficiency of rasterization algorithms and hardware, but has come at a cost: the approximations that make rasterization efficient also make implementation of light transport phenomena like reflection and refraction much more difficult. We propose a novel scene representation which avoids these approximations, but keeps the efficiency and reconstruction quality of splatting by leveraging a decades-old efficient volumetric mesh ray tracing algorithm which has been largely overlooked in recent computer vision research. The resulting model, which we name Radiant Foam, achieves rendering speed and quality comparable to Gaussian Splatting, without the constraints of rasterization. Unlike ray traced Gaussian models that use hardware ray tracing acceleration, our method requires no special hardware or APIs beyond the standard features of a programmable GPU.

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