Forward Flow for Novel View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes

Xiang Guo, Jiadai Sun, Yuchao Dai, Guanying Chen, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan, Errui Ding, Yumeng Zhang, Jingdong Wang

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Abstract

This paper proposes a neural radiance field (NeRF) approach for novel view synthesis of dynamic scenes using forward warping. Existing methods often adopt a static NeRF to represent the canonical space, and render dynamic images at other time steps by mapping the sampled 3D points back to the canonical space with the learned backward flow field. However, this backward flow field is non-smooth and discontinuous, which is difficult to be fitted by commonly used smooth motion models. To address this problem, we propose to estimate the forward flow field and directly warp the canonical radiance field to other time steps. Such forward flow field is smooth and continuous within the object region, which benefits the motion model learning. To achieve this goal, we represent the canonical radiance field with voxel grids to enable efficient forward warping, and propose a differentiable warping process, including an average splatting operation and an inpaint network, to resolve the many-to-one and one-to-many mapping issues. Thorough experiments show that our method outperforms existing methods in both novel view rendering and motion modeling, demonstrating the effectiveness of our forward flow motion modeling. Project page: https://npucvr.github.io/ForwardFlowDNeRF.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages15976-15987
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798350307184
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023 - Paris, France
Duration: 2 Oct 20236 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period2/10/236/10/23

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