SPIDR: SDF-based Neural Point Fields for Illumination and Deformation

Ruofan Liang, Jiahao Zhang, Haoda Li, chen yang, Nandita Vijaykumar

Abstract: Implicit neural representations such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have re- recently emerged as a promising approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, NeRF-based methods encode shape, reflectance, and illumination implicitly in their neural representations, and this makes it challenging for users to manipulate these properties in the rendered images explicitly. Exist- ing approaches only enable limited editing of the scene and deformation of the geometry. Furthermore, no existing work enables accurate scene illumination after object deformation. In this work, we introduce SPIDR, a new hybrid neural SDF representation. SPIDR combines point cloud and neural implicit representations to enable the reconstruction of higher quality meshes and surfaces for object deformation and lighting estimation. To more accurately capture environment illumination for scene relighting, we propose a novel neural implicit model to learn environment light. To enable accurate illumination updates after deformation, we use the shadow mapping technique to efficiently approximate the light visibility updates caused by geometry editing. We demonstrate the effectiveness of SPIDR in enabling high quality geometry editing and deformation with accurate updates to the illumination of the scene. In comparison to prior work, we demonstrate significantly better rendering quality after deformation and lighting estimation.

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