NeRFPlayer: A Streamable Dynamic Scene Representation with Decomposed Neural Radiance Fields

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 2732 - 2742
• Main Authors: Song, Liangchen, Chen, Anpei, Li, Zhong, Chen, Zhang, Chen, Lele, Yuan, Junsong, Xu, Yi, Geiger, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.05.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Cameras; Decomposition; Dynamics; free-viewpoint video; Image reconstruction; immersive video; Modelling; NeRF; Neural rendering; Reconstruction; Rendering; Rendering (computer graphics); Representations; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Streaming media; Three-dimensional displays; Websites
• DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3247082
• ISSN: 1077-2626; 1941-0506

Visually exploring in a real-world 4D spatiotemporal space freely in VR has been a long-term quest. The task is especially appealing when only a few or even single RGB cameras are used for capturing the dynamic scene. To this end, we present an efficient framework capable of fast reconstruction, compact modeling, and streamable rendering. First, we propose to decompose the 4D spatiotemporal space according to temporal characteristics. Points in the 4D space are associated with probabilities of belonging to three categories: static, deforming, and new areas. Each area is represented and regularized by a separate neural field. Second, we propose a hybrid representations based feature streaming scheme for efficiently modeling the neural fields. Our approach, coined NeRFPlayer, is evaluated on dynamic scenes captured by single hand-held cameras and multi-camera arrays, achieving comparable or superior rendering performance in terms of quality and speed comparable to recent state-of-the-art methods, achieving reconstruction in 10 seconds per frame and interactive rendering. Project website: https://bit.ly/nerfplayer.