Data Augmentation for NeRFs in the Low Data Limit

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Hauptverfasser: Gaggar, Ayush, Murphey, Todd D.
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author Gaggar, Ayush
Murphey, Todd D.
author_facet Gaggar, Ayush
Murphey, Todd D.
contents Current methods based on Neural Radiance Fields fail in the low data limit, particularly when training on incomplete scene data. Prior works augment training data only in next-best-view applications, which lead to hallucinations and model collapse with sparse data. In contrast, we propose adding a set of views during training by rejection sampling from a posterior uncertainty distribution, generated by combining a volumetric uncertainty estimator with spatial coverage. We validate our results on partially observed scenes; on average, our method performs 39.9% better with 87.5% less variability across established scene reconstruction benchmarks, as compared to state of the art baselines. We further demonstrate that augmenting the training set by sampling from any distribution leads to better, more consistent scene reconstruction in sparse environments. This work is foundational for robotic tasks where augmenting a dataset with informative data is critical in resource-constrained, a priori unknown environments. Videos and source code are available at https://murpheylab.github.io/low-data-nerf/.
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spellingShingle Data Augmentation for NeRFs in the Low Data Limit
Gaggar, Ayush
Murphey, Todd D.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Current methods based on Neural Radiance Fields fail in the low data limit, particularly when training on incomplete scene data. Prior works augment training data only in next-best-view applications, which lead to hallucinations and model collapse with sparse data. In contrast, we propose adding a set of views during training by rejection sampling from a posterior uncertainty distribution, generated by combining a volumetric uncertainty estimator with spatial coverage. We validate our results on partially observed scenes; on average, our method performs 39.9% better with 87.5% less variability across established scene reconstruction benchmarks, as compared to state of the art baselines. We further demonstrate that augmenting the training set by sampling from any distribution leads to better, more consistent scene reconstruction in sparse environments. This work is foundational for robotic tasks where augmenting a dataset with informative data is critical in resource-constrained, a priori unknown environments. Videos and source code are available at https://murpheylab.github.io/low-data-nerf/.
title Data Augmentation for NeRFs in the Low Data Limit
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02092