CVGRJun 30, 2022

Neural Surface Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes with Monocular RGB-D Camera

arXiv:2206.15258v281 citationsh-index: 43
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This addresses the challenge of dynamic scene reconstruction for applications like robotics and AR/VR, representing an incremental improvement over prior work.

The paper tackles the problem of reconstructing high-fidelity geometry and motions of dynamic scenes using only a monocular RGB-D camera, achieving state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods.

We propose Neural-DynamicReconstruction (NDR), a template-free method to recover high-fidelity geometry and motions of a dynamic scene from a monocular RGB-D camera. In NDR, we adopt the neural implicit function for surface representation and rendering such that the captured color and depth can be fully utilized to jointly optimize the surface and deformations. To represent and constrain the non-rigid deformations, we propose a novel neural invertible deforming network such that the cycle consistency between arbitrary two frames is automatically satisfied. Considering that the surface topology of dynamic scene might change over time, we employ a topology-aware strategy to construct the topology-variant correspondence for the fused frames. NDR also further refines the camera poses in a global optimization manner. Experiments on public datasets and our collected dataset demonstrate that NDR outperforms existing monocular dynamic reconstruction methods.

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