Camera Relocalization in Shadow-free Neural Radiance Fields

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Main Authors: Xu, Shiyao, Liu, Caiyun, Chen, Yuantao, Zhu, Zhenxin, Yan, Zike, Shi, Yongliang, Zhao, Hao, Zhou, Guyue
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Published: 2024
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author Xu, Shiyao
Liu, Caiyun
Chen, Yuantao
Zhu, Zhenxin
Yan, Zike
Shi, Yongliang
Zhao, Hao
Zhou, Guyue
author_facet Xu, Shiyao
Liu, Caiyun
Chen, Yuantao
Zhu, Zhenxin
Yan, Zike
Shi, Yongliang
Zhao, Hao
Zhou, Guyue
contents Camera relocalization is a crucial problem in computer vision and robotics. Recent advancements in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have shown promise in synthesizing photo-realistic images. Several works have utilized NeRFs for refining camera poses, but they do not account for lighting changes that can affect scene appearance and shadow regions, causing a degraded pose optimization process. In this paper, we propose a two-staged pipeline that normalizes images with varying lighting and shadow conditions to improve camera relocalization. We implement our scene representation upon a hash-encoded NeRF which significantly boosts up the pose optimization process. To account for the noisy image gradient computing problem in grid-based NeRFs, we further propose a re-devised truncated dynamic low-pass filter (TDLF) and a numerical gradient averaging technique to smoothen the process. Experimental results on several datasets with varying lighting conditions demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results in camera relocalization under varying lighting conditions. Code and data will be made publicly available.
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spellingShingle Camera Relocalization in Shadow-free Neural Radiance Fields
Xu, Shiyao
Liu, Caiyun
Chen, Yuantao
Zhu, Zhenxin
Yan, Zike
Shi, Yongliang
Zhao, Hao
Zhou, Guyue
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Camera relocalization is a crucial problem in computer vision and robotics. Recent advancements in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have shown promise in synthesizing photo-realistic images. Several works have utilized NeRFs for refining camera poses, but they do not account for lighting changes that can affect scene appearance and shadow regions, causing a degraded pose optimization process. In this paper, we propose a two-staged pipeline that normalizes images with varying lighting and shadow conditions to improve camera relocalization. We implement our scene representation upon a hash-encoded NeRF which significantly boosts up the pose optimization process. To account for the noisy image gradient computing problem in grid-based NeRFs, we further propose a re-devised truncated dynamic low-pass filter (TDLF) and a numerical gradient averaging technique to smoothen the process. Experimental results on several datasets with varying lighting conditions demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results in camera relocalization under varying lighting conditions. Code and data will be made publicly available.
title Camera Relocalization in Shadow-free Neural Radiance Fields
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14824