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Purely MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF-based methods) often suffer from underfitting with blurred renderings on large-scale scenes due to limited model capacity. Recent approaches propose to geographically divide the scene and adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Linning Xu , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sida Peng , Xingang Pan , Nanxuan Zhao , Christian Theobalt , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

The aim of this work is to introduce MaRF, a novel framework able to synthesize the Martian environment using several collections of images from rover cameras. The idea is to generate a 3D scene of Mars' surface to address key challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Lorenzo Giusti , Josue Garcia , Steven Cozine , Darrick Suen , Christina Nguyen , Ryan Alimo

We evaluate different Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) techniques for the 3D reconstruction of plants in varied environments, from indoor settings to outdoor fields. Traditional methods usually fail to capture the complex geometric details of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Muhammad Arbab Arshad , Talukder Jubery , James Afful , Anushrut Jignasu , Aditya Balu , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy

This paper presents Neural Visibility Field (NVF), a novel uncertainty quantification method for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) applied to active mapping. Our key insight is that regions not visible in the training views lead to inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shangjie Xue , Jesse Dill , Pranay Mathur , Frank Dellaert , Panagiotis Tsiotras , Danfei Xu

3D surface reconstruction from images is essential for numerous applications. Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a promising framework for 3D modeling. However, NeRFs require accurate camera poses as input, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yiyang Chen , Siyan Dong , Xulong Wang , Lulu Cai , Youyi Zheng , Yanchao Yang

We address efficient and structure-aware 3D scene representation from images. Nerflets are our key contribution -- a set of local neural radiance fields that together represent a scene. Each nerflet maintains its own spatial position,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiaoshuai Zhang , Abhijit Kundu , Thomas Funkhouser , Leonidas Guibas , Hao Su , Kyle Genova

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has revolutionized novel-view rendering tasks and achieved impressive results. However, the inefficient sampling and per-scene optimization hinder its wide applications. Though some generalizable NeRFs have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yue Shi , Dingyi Rong , Chang Chen , Chaofan Ma , Bingbing Ni , Wenjun Zhang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive novel view synthesis results; nonetheless, even thorough recordings yield imperfections in reconstructions, for instance due to poorly observed areas or minor lighting changes. Our goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Barbara Roessle , Norman Müller , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota Bulò , Peter Kontschieder , Matthias Nießner

We use neural radiance fields (NeRFs) to build interactive 3D environments from large-scale visual captures spanning buildings or even multiple city blocks collected primarily from drones. In contrast to single object scenes (on which NeRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Haithem Turki , Deva Ramanan , Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Neural radiance field (NeRF) is an emerging view synthesis method that samples points in a three-dimensional (3D) space and estimates their existence and color probabilities. The disadvantage of NeRF is that it requires a long training time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Hye Bin Yoo , Hyun Min Han , Sung Soo Hwang , Il Yong Chun

We address the estimation of the 6D pose of an unknown target spacecraft relative to a monocular camera, a key step towards the autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations required by future Active Debris Removal missions. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Antoine Legrand , Renaud Detry , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

As robots increasingly coexist with humans, they must navigate complex, dynamic environments rich in visual information and implicit social dynamics, like when to yield or move through crowds. Addressing these challenges requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Georgina Nuthall , Richard Bowden , Oscar Mendez

This project presents an exploration into 3D scene reconstruction of synthetic and real-world scenes using Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) approaches. We primarily take advantage of the reduction in training and rendering time of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Benedict Quartey , Tuluhan Akbulut , Wasiwasi Mgonzo , Zheng Xin Yong

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has demonstrated its superior capability to represent 3D geometry but require accurately precomputed camera poses during training. To mitigate this requirement, existing methods jointly optimize camera poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has gained significant attention for its prominent implicit 3D representation and realistic novel view synthesis capabilities. Available works unexceptionally employ straight-line volume rendering, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nan Luo , Chenglin Ye , Jiaxu Li , Gang Liu , Bo Wan , Di Wang , Lupeng Liu , Jun Xiao

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) provide a high fidelity, continuous scene representation that can realistically represent complex behaviour of light. Despite works like Ref-NeRF improving geometry through physics-inspired models, the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jack Naylor , Viorela Ila , Donald G. Dansereau

Large-scale 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis are vital for autonomous vehicles, especially utilizing temporally sparse LiDAR frames. However, conventional explicit representations remain a significant bottleneck towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Xiuzhong Hu , Guangming Xiong , Zheng Zang , Peng Jia , Yuxuan Han , Junyi Ma

While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) had achieved unprecedented novel view synthesis results, they have been struggling in dealing with large-scale cluttered scenes with sparse input views and highly view-dependent appearances.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enable 3D scene reconstruction from 2D images and camera poses for Novel View Synthesis (NVS). Although NeRF can produce photorealistic results, it often suffers from overfitting to training views, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fusang Wang , Arnaud Louys , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou

Estimating neural radiance fields (NeRFs) from "ideal" images has been extensively studied in the computer vision community. Most approaches assume optimal illumination and slow camera motion. These assumptions are often violated in robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Simon Klenk , Lukas Koestler , Davide Scaramuzza , Daniel Cremers