ProvNeRF: Modeling per Point Provenance in NeRFs as a Stochastic Field

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Main Authors: Nakayama, Kiyohiro, Uy, Mikaela Angelina, You, Yang, Li, Ke, Guibas, Leonidas J.
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Published: 2024
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author Nakayama, Kiyohiro
Uy, Mikaela Angelina
You, Yang
Li, Ke
Guibas, Leonidas J.
author_facet Nakayama, Kiyohiro
Uy, Mikaela Angelina
You, Yang
Li, Ke
Guibas, Leonidas J.
contents Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have gained popularity with multiple works showing promising results across various applications. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing works do not explicitly model the distribution of training camera poses, or consequently the triangulation quality, a key factor affecting reconstruction quality dating back to classical vision literature. We close this gap with ProvNeRF, an approach that models the \textbf{provenance} for each point -- i.e., the locations where it is likely visible -- of NeRFs as a stochastic field. We achieve this by extending implicit maximum likelihood estimation (IMLE) to functional space with an optimizable objective. We show that modeling per-point provenance during the NeRF optimization enriches the model with information on triangulation leading to improvements in novel view synthesis and uncertainty estimation under the challenging sparse, unconstrained view setting against competitive baselines.
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spellingShingle ProvNeRF: Modeling per Point Provenance in NeRFs as a Stochastic Field
Nakayama, Kiyohiro
Uy, Mikaela Angelina
You, Yang
Li, Ke
Guibas, Leonidas J.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have gained popularity with multiple works showing promising results across various applications. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing works do not explicitly model the distribution of training camera poses, or consequently the triangulation quality, a key factor affecting reconstruction quality dating back to classical vision literature. We close this gap with ProvNeRF, an approach that models the \textbf{provenance} for each point -- i.e., the locations where it is likely visible -- of NeRFs as a stochastic field. We achieve this by extending implicit maximum likelihood estimation (IMLE) to functional space with an optimizable objective. We show that modeling per-point provenance during the NeRF optimization enriches the model with information on triangulation leading to improvements in novel view synthesis and uncertainty estimation under the challenging sparse, unconstrained view setting against competitive baselines.
title ProvNeRF: Modeling per Point Provenance in NeRFs as a Stochastic Field
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08140