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Bayes' Rays: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Radiance Fields (arxiv.org)
2 points by PaulHoule on Sep 14, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: After a 3D scene model is trained on photos, this tool nudges the scene's points and uses a statistical shortcut to map where the model is unsure, with no retraining needed. It beat the usual guesswork-based or slow methods at measuring that uncertainty.

Abstract

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have shown promise in applications like view synthesis and depth estimation, but learning from multiview images faces inherent uncertainties. Current methods to quantify them are either heuristic or computationally demanding. We introduce BayesRays, a post-hoc framework to evaluate uncertainty in any pre-trained NeRF without modifying the training process. Our method establishes a volumetric uncertainty field using spatial perturbations and a Bayesian Laplace approximation. We derive our algorithm statistically and show its superior performance in key metrics and applications. Additional results available at: https://bayesrays.github.io.

Lily Goli, Cody Reading, Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson, Andrea Tagliasacchi
arXiv:2309.03185 · cs.CV · submitted Sep 6, 2023
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