Volumetric video is a technology that digitally records dynamic events such as artistic performances, sporting events, and remote conversations. When acquired, such volumography can be viewed from any viewpoint and timestamp on flat screens, 3D displays, or VR headsets, enabling immersive viewing experiences and more flexible content creation in a variety of applications such as sports broadcasting, video conferencing, gaming, and movie productions. With the recent advances and fast-growing interest in neural scene representations for volumetric video, there is an urgent need for a unified open-source library to streamline the process of volumetric video capturing, reconstruction, and rendering for both researchers and non-professional users to develop various algorithms and applications of this emerging technology. In this paper, we present EasyVolcap, a Python & Pytorch library for accelerating neural volumetric video research with the goal of unifying the process of multi-view data processing, 4D scene reconstruction, and efficient dynamic volumetric video rendering. Our source code is available at https://github.com/zju3dv/EasyVolcap.
@article{arxiv.2312.06575,
title = {EasyVolcap: Accelerating Neural Volumetric Video Research},
author = {Zhen Xu and Tao Xie and Sida Peng and Haotong Lin and Qing Shuai and Zhiyuan Yu and Guangzhao He and Jiaming Sun and Hujun Bao and Xiaowei Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06575},
year = {2023}
}
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SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Technical Communications. Source code: https://github.com/zju3dv/EasyVolcap