We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the bird’s-eye-view (BEV) representation commonly used in vision and robotics, we propose conditional neural groundplans, ground-aligned 2D feature grids, as persistent and memory-efficient scene representations. Our method is trained self-supervised from unlabeled multi-view observations using differentiable rendering, and learns to complete geometry and appearance of occluded regions. In addition, we show that we can leverage multi-view videos at training time to learn to separately reconstruct static and movable components of the scene from a single image at test time. The ability to separately reconstruct movable objects enables a variety of downstream tasks using simple heuristics, such as extraction of object-centric 3D representations, novel view synthesis, instance-level segmentation, 3D bounding box prediction, and scene editing. This highlights the value of neural groundplans as a backbone for efficient 3D scene understanding models.
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DeepVoxels: Learning Persistent 3D Feature Embeddings
In this work, we address the lack of 3D understanding
of generative neural networks by introducing a persistent
3D feature embedding for view synthesis. To this end, we
propose DeepVoxels, a learned representation that encodes
the view-dependent appearance of a 3D scene without having
to explicitly model its geometry. At its core, our approach
is based on a Cartesian 3D grid of persistent embedded
features that learn to make use of the underlying 3D
scene structure. Our approach combines insights from 3D
geometric computer vision with recent advances in learning
image-to-image mappings based on adversarial loss functions.
DeepVoxels is supervised, without requiring a 3D reconstruction
of the scene, using a 2D re-rendering loss and
enforces perspective and multi-view geometry in a principled
manner. We apply our persistent 3D scene representation
to the problem of novel view synthesis demonstrating
high-quality results for a variety of challenging scenes.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1839974
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10104456
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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