Summary of Active Neural 3d Reconstruction with Colorized Surface Voxel-based View Selection, by Hyunseo Kim et al.
Active Neural 3D Reconstruction with Colorized Surface Voxel-based View Selection
by Hyunseo Kim, Hyeonseo Yang, Taekyung Kim, YoonSung Kim, Jin-Hwa Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers introduce a novel approach to active 3D scene reconstruction using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) variants. Specifically, they propose Colorized Surface Voxel (CSV)-based view selection, which leverages surface voxel-based measurement of uncertainty in scene appearance to select the next-best view (NBV). This method outperforms previous works on popular datasets such as DTU and Blender, and a new dataset with imbalanced viewpoints by up to 30%. The authors utilize uncertainties estimated with neural networks that encode scene geometry and appearance. They explore different uncertainty integration methods, including voxel-based and neural rendering, to optimize reconstruction performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding the best way to build 3D models of scenes from pictures. Right now, computers can do this by looking at certain views (angles) and using those views to figure out what the scene looks like. But sometimes these views aren’t enough, and the computer needs more information to get an accurate picture. To solve this problem, researchers have been experimenting with different ways to choose which views to look at next. This paper introduces a new method that uses color and geometry (shape) information from the pictures to decide which view is most important. It works really well and can even handle tricky situations where some parts of the scene are hidden or hard to see. |
