Neural fields for scene reconstruction - James Tompkin
CIS Seminar Series (http://cis.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/seminars.html)
Neural fields for scene reconstruction
James Tompkin, Brown University, USA
Where: Zoom
Host: Changjae Oh
Abstract
Scene reconstruction enables applications across visual computing, including media creation and editing, and capturing the real-world for telecommunication and virtual tourism. Advances in differentiable rendering for optimization- and learning-based reconstruction have increased quality but, as in 'forward' rendering, different methods have varying capabilities and computational costs that must be traded off against application needs. I will discuss our recent view reconstruction projects across the differentiable rendering spectrum, including sensing, indoor reconstruction, and fast image-based reconstruction for VR. Finally, I will discuss how these trade-offs might inform how we can make differentiable rendering practical.