CF-NeRF: Camera Parameter Free Neural Radiance Fields with Incremental Learning

Qingsong Yan, Qiang Wang*, Kaiyong Zhao, Jie Chen, Bo Li, Xiaowen Chu*, Fei Deng

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Abstract

Neural Radiance Fields have demonstrated impressive performance in novel view synthesis. However, NeRF and most of its variants still rely on traditional complex pipelines to provide extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, such as COLMAP. Recent works, like NeRFmm, BARF, and L2G-NeRF, directly treat camera parameters as learnable and estimate them through differential volume rendering. However, these methods work for forward-looking scenes with slight motions and fail to tackle the rotation scenario in practice. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel camera parameter free neural radiance field (CF-NeRF), which incrementally reconstructs 3D representations and recovers the camera parameters inspired by incremental structure from motion. Given a sequence of images, CF-NeRF estimates camera parameters of images one by one and reconstructs the scene through initialization, implicit localization, and implicit optimization. To evaluate our method, we use a challenging real-world dataset, NeRFBuster, which provides 12 scenes under complex trajectories. Results demonstrate that CF-NeRF is robust to rotation and achieves state-of-the-art results without providing prior information and constraints.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
EditorsMichael Wooldridge, Jennifer Dy, Sriraam Natarajan
PublisherAAAI press
Pages6440-6448
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)1577358872 , 9781577358879
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Mar 2024
Event38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2024 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 20 Feb 202427 Feb 2024
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/issue/archive (Conference proceeding)

Publication series

NameProceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Number6
Volume38
ISSN (Print)2159-5399
ISSN (Electronic)2374-3468

Conference

Conference38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2024
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period20/02/2427/02/24
Internet address

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

User-Defined Keywords

  • 3D Computer Vision

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