Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) as a Rendering Primitive: StreamNeRF - Adapting a NeRF Model for Progressive Decoding

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and their adaptations are known to be computationally intensive during both the training and the evaluating stages. Despite being the end goal, directly rendering a full-resolution representation of the scene is not necessary and not very practical for scenarios like streamed applications. Our goal is to design a...

Using K-Means clustering to export a NeRF for faster rendering in CG applications while preserving view-dependent appearance

With the current state-of-the-art research, exporting a NeRF to a mesh has the side effect of having to evaluate a Multi Layer Perceptron at render-time, causing a significant decrease in performance. We have found a way to use K-Means clustering to pre-compute values for this MLP, storing them in multiple octahedron maps for the GPU to fetch...

Non-Photorealistic Novel View Synthesis Using Radiance Fields

Radiance fields are a promising alternative to conventional 3D representations in the domain of novel view synthesis, with recent research achieving truly impressive photorealistic view synthesis results. In this paper, we deal with the concept of non-photorealistic rendering in the context of radiance fields, for generating more stylistic...

BladeNeRF: Exploiting camera constraints for NeRF in repetitive texture-less 3D reconstruction

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in photo-realistic 3D reconstruction. NeRFs often take as input posed images where the camera poses come from either off-the-shelf S\textit{f}M or online optimization together with NeRFs. However, we find that both strategies yield suboptimal results in recovering camera...

A trainable activation scheme for applying Neural Radiance Fields in novel view synthesis tasks

3D scene reconstruction is a common computer vision task with many applications. The synthesized virtual environments are beneficial for many downstream applications such as 3D modeling, building inspection, virtual reality, etc. As conventional scene reconstruction methods often require expensive data collections and prior information on the...