UpFusion: Novel View Diffusion from Unposed Sparse View Observations
Primary Area: generative models
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Keywords: Novel View Synthesis, Diffusion, 3D, Generative Models, Transformers
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TL;DR: A system that can perform novel view synthesis of an object given a sparse set of reference images without corresponding pose information.
Abstract: We propose UpFusion, a system that can perform novel view synthesis and infer 3D representations for an object given a sparse set of reference images without corresponding pose information. Current sparse-view 3D inference methods typically rely on camera poses to geometrically aggregate information from input views, but are not robust in-the-wild when such information is unavailable/inaccurate. In contrast, UpFusion sidesteps this requirement by learning to implicitly leverage the available images as context in a conditional generative model for synthesizing novel views. We incorporate two complementary forms of conditioning into diffusion models for leveraging the input views: a) via inferring query-view aligned features using a scene-level transformer, b) via intermediate attentional layers that can directly observe the input image tokens. We show that this mechanism allows generating high-fidelity novel views while improving the synthesis quality given additional (unposed) images. We evaluate our approach on the Co3D dataset and demonstrate the benefits of our method over pose-reliant alternates, Finally, we also show that our learned model can generalize beyond the training categories, and hope that this provides a stepping stone to reconstructing generic objects from in-the-wild image collections.
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Submission Number: 4145
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