Neural Implicit Representations for Physical Parameter Inference from a Single Video

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Autori principali: Hofherr, Florian, Koestler, Lukas, Bernard, Florian, Cremers, Daniel
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Pubblicazione: 2022
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author Hofherr, Florian
Koestler, Lukas
Bernard, Florian
Cremers, Daniel
author_facet Hofherr, Florian
Koestler, Lukas
Bernard, Florian
Cremers, Daniel
contents Neural networks have recently been used to analyze diverse physical systems and to identify the underlying dynamics. While existing methods achieve impressive results, they are limited by their strong demand for training data and their weak generalization abilities to out-of-distribution data. To overcome these limitations, in this work we propose to combine neural implicit representations for appearance modeling with neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for modelling physical phenomena to obtain a dynamic scene representation that can be identified directly from visual observations. Our proposed model combines several unique advantages: (i) Contrary to existing approaches that require large training datasets, we are able to identify physical parameters from only a single video. (ii) The use of neural implicit representations enables the processing of high-resolution videos and the synthesis of photo-realistic images. (iii) The embedded neural ODE has a known parametric form that allows for the identification of interpretable physical parameters, and (iv) long-term prediction in state space. (v) Furthermore, the photo-realistic rendering of novel scenes with modified physical parameters becomes possible.
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spellingShingle Neural Implicit Representations for Physical Parameter Inference from a Single Video
Hofherr, Florian
Koestler, Lukas
Bernard, Florian
Cremers, Daniel
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Neural networks have recently been used to analyze diverse physical systems and to identify the underlying dynamics. While existing methods achieve impressive results, they are limited by their strong demand for training data and their weak generalization abilities to out-of-distribution data. To overcome these limitations, in this work we propose to combine neural implicit representations for appearance modeling with neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for modelling physical phenomena to obtain a dynamic scene representation that can be identified directly from visual observations. Our proposed model combines several unique advantages: (i) Contrary to existing approaches that require large training datasets, we are able to identify physical parameters from only a single video. (ii) The use of neural implicit representations enables the processing of high-resolution videos and the synthesis of photo-realistic images. (iii) The embedded neural ODE has a known parametric form that allows for the identification of interpretable physical parameters, and (iv) long-term prediction in state space. (v) Furthermore, the photo-realistic rendering of novel scenes with modified physical parameters becomes possible.
title Neural Implicit Representations for Physical Parameter Inference from a Single Video
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14030