WayveScenes101: A Dataset and Benchmark for Novel View Synthesis in Autonomous Driving
This provides a new benchmark for researchers in computer vision and autonomous driving to evaluate and improve scene reconstruction methods on real-world driving data, though it is incremental as it builds on existing datasets by focusing on specific challenges.
The authors introduced WayveScenes101, a dataset of 101 driving scenes designed to benchmark novel view synthesis in challenging autonomous driving conditions, including dynamic elements and varied environments, and proposed an evaluation protocol to test model generalization on off-axis views.
We present WayveScenes101, a dataset designed to help the community advance the state of the art in novel view synthesis that focuses on challenging driving scenes containing many dynamic and deformable elements with changing geometry and texture. The dataset comprises 101 driving scenes across a wide range of environmental conditions and driving scenarios. The dataset is designed for benchmarking reconstructions on in-the-wild driving scenes, with many inherent challenges for scene reconstruction methods including image glare, rapid exposure changes, and highly dynamic scenes with significant occlusion. Along with the raw images, we include COLMAP-derived camera poses in standard data formats. We propose an evaluation protocol for evaluating models on held-out camera views that are off-axis from the training views, specifically testing the generalisation capabilities of methods. Finally, we provide detailed metadata for all scenes, including weather, time of day, and traffic conditions, to allow for a detailed model performance breakdown across scene characteristics. Dataset and code are available at https://github.com/wayveai/wayve_scenes.