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Main Authors: Liu, Jianheng, Zheng, Chunran, Wan, Yunfei, Wang, Bowen, Cai, Yixi, Zhang, Fu
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05310
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author Liu, Jianheng
Zheng, Chunran
Wan, Yunfei
Wang, Bowen
Cai, Yixi
Zhang, Fu
author_facet Liu, Jianheng
Zheng, Chunran
Wan, Yunfei
Wang, Bowen
Cai, Yixi
Zhang, Fu
contents This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from posed images and point clouds. We address the structural visible gap between NeRF and NDF by utilizing a visible-aware occupancy map to classify space into the free, occupied, visible unknown, and background regions. This classification facilitates the recovery of a complete appearance and structure of the scene. We unify the training of the NDF and NeRF using a spatial-varying scale SDF-to-density transformation for levels of detail for both structure and appearance. The proposed method leverages the learned NDF for structure-aware NeRF training by an adaptive sphere tracing sampling strategy for accurate structure rendering. In return, NeRF further refines structural in recovering missing or fuzzy structures in the NDF. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior quality and versatility of the proposed method across various scenarios. To benefit the community, the codes will be released at \url{https://github.com/hku-mars/M2Mapping}.
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spellingShingle Neural Surface Reconstruction and Rendering for LiDAR-Visual Systems
Liu, Jianheng
Zheng, Chunran
Wan, Yunfei
Wang, Bowen
Cai, Yixi
Zhang, Fu
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from posed images and point clouds. We address the structural visible gap between NeRF and NDF by utilizing a visible-aware occupancy map to classify space into the free, occupied, visible unknown, and background regions. This classification facilitates the recovery of a complete appearance and structure of the scene. We unify the training of the NDF and NeRF using a spatial-varying scale SDF-to-density transformation for levels of detail for both structure and appearance. The proposed method leverages the learned NDF for structure-aware NeRF training by an adaptive sphere tracing sampling strategy for accurate structure rendering. In return, NeRF further refines structural in recovering missing or fuzzy structures in the NDF. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior quality and versatility of the proposed method across various scenarios. To benefit the community, the codes will be released at \url{https://github.com/hku-mars/M2Mapping}.
title Neural Surface Reconstruction and Rendering for LiDAR-Visual Systems
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05310