Code of paper 'VolRecon: Volume Rendering of Signed Ray Distance Functions for Generalizable Multi-View Reconstruction' (CVPR 2023)

Abstract: The success of the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in novel view synthesis has inspired researchers to propose neural implicit scene reconstruction. However, most existing neural implicit reconstruction methods optimize perscene parameters and therefore lack generalizability to new scenes. We introduce VolRecon, a novel generalizable implicit reconstruction method with Signed Ray Distance Function (SRDF). To reconstruct the scene with fine details and little noise, VolRecon combines projection features aggregated from multi-view features, and volume features interpolated from a coarse global feature volume. Using a ray transformer, we compute SRDF values of sampled points on a ray and then render color and depth. On DTU dataset, VolRecon outperforms SparseNeuS by about 30% in sparse view reconstruction and achieves comparable accuracy as MVSNet in full view reconstruction. Furthermore, our approach exhibits good generalization performance on the large-scale ETH3D benchmark.

If you find this project useful for your research, please cite:

@misc{ren2022volrecon,
      title={VolRecon: Volume Rendering of Signed Ray Distance Functions for Generalizable Multi-View Reconstruction}, 
      author={Yufan Ren and Fangjinhua Wang and Tong Zhang and Marc Pollefeys and Sabine Süsstrunk},
      journal={CVPR},
      year={2023}
}

• python 3.8
• CUDA 10.2

conda create --name volrecon python=3.8 pip
conda activate volrecon

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Download pre-processed DTU dataset. The dataset is organized as follows:

root_directory
├──cameras
    ├── 00000000_cam.txt
    ├── 00000001_cam.txt
    └── ...  
├──pair.txt
├──scan24
├──scan37
      ├── image               
      │   ├── 000000.png       
      │   ├── 000001.png       
      │   └── ...                
      └── mask                   
          ├── 000.png   
          ├── 001.png
          └── ...                

Camera file cam.txt stores the camera parameters, which includes extrinsic, intrinsic, minimum depth and depth range interval:

extrinsic
E00 E01 E02 E03
E10 E11 E12 E13
E20 E21 E22 E23
E30 E31 E32 E33

intrinsic
K00 K01 K02
K10 K11 K12
K20 K21 K22

DEPTH_MIN DEPTH_INTERVAL

pair.txt stores the view selection result. For each reference image, 10 best source views are stored in the file:

TOTAL_IMAGE_NUM
IMAGE_ID0                       # index of reference image 0 
10 ID0 SCORE0 ID1 SCORE1 ...    # 10 best source images for reference image 0 
IMAGE_ID1                       # index of reference image 1
10 ID0 SCORE0 ID1 SCORE1 ...    # 10 best source images for reference image 1 
...

• In script/eval_dtu.sh, set DATASET as the root directory of the dataset, set OUT_DIR as the directory to store the rendered depth maps. CKPT_FILE is the path of the checkpoint file (default as our model pretrained on DTU). Run bash eval_dtu.sh on GPU. By Default, 3 images (--test_n_view 3) in image set 0 (--set 0) are used for testing.
• In tsdf_fusion.sh, set ROOT_DIR as the directory that stores the rendered depth maps. Run bash tsdf_fusion.sh on GPU to get the reconstructed meshes in mesh directory.
• For quantitative evaluation, download SampleSet and Points from DTU's website. Unzip them and place Points folder in SampleSet/MVS Data/. The structure looks like:

SampleSet
├──MVS Data
      └──Points

• Following SparseNeuS, we clean the raw mesh with object masks by running:

python evaluation/clean_mesh.py --root_dir "PATH_TO_DTU_TEST" --n_view 3 --set 0

• Get the quantitative results by running evaluation code:

python evaluation/dtu_eval.py --dataset_dir "PATH_TO_SampleSet_MVS_Data"

• Note that you can change --set in eval_dtu.sh and --set during mesh cleaning to use different image sets (0 or 1). By default, image set 0 is used. The average performance of sets 0 and 1

• Download pre-processed DTU's training set and Depths_raw (both provided by MVSNet). Then organize the dataset as follows:

root_directory
├──Cameras
├──Rectified
└──Depths_raw

• In train_dtu.sh, set DATASET as the root directory of dataset; set LOG_DIR as the directory to store the checkpoints.

• Train the model by running bash train_dtu.sh on GPU.

Part of the code is based on SparseNeuS and IBRNet.