@inproceedings{1c7cc3460f33493e977c657b72325588,
title = "HF-NeuS: Improved Surface Reconstruction Using High-Frequency Details",
abstract = "Neural rendering can be used to reconstruct implicit representations of shapes without 3D supervision. However, current neural surface reconstruction methods have difficulty learning high-frequency geometry details, so the reconstructed shapes are often over-smoothed. We develop HF-NeuS, a novel method to improve the quality of surface reconstruction in neural rendering. We follow recent work to model surfaces as signed distance functions (SDFs). First, we offer a derivation to analyze the relationship between the SDF, the volume density, the transparency function, and the weighting function used in the volume rendering equation and propose to model transparency as a transformed SDF. Second, we observe that attempting to jointly encode high-frequency and low-frequency components in a single SDF leads to unstable optimization. We propose to decompose the SDF into base and displacement functions with a coarse-to-fine strategy to increase the high-frequency details gradually. Finally, we design an adaptive optimization strategy that makes the training process focus on improving those regions near the surface where the SDFs have artifacts. Our qualitative and quantitative results show that our method can reconstruct fine-grained surface details and obtain better surface reconstruction quality than the current state of the art. Code available at https://github.com/yiqun-wang/HFS.",
author = "Yiqun Wang and Ivan Skorokhodov and Peter Wonka",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Neural information processing systems foundation. All rights reserved.; 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022 ; Conference date: 28-11-2022 Through 09-12-2022",
year = "2022",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems",
publisher = "Neural information processing systems foundation",
editor = "S. Koyejo and S. Mohamed and A. Agarwal and D. Belgrave and K. Cho and A. Oh",
booktitle = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022",
}