WaveNeRF: Wavelet-based Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields

TL;DR

WaveNeRF introduces a wavelet-based approach to neural radiance fields, enabling high-quality, generalizable novel view synthesis without scene-specific fine-tuning by explicitly modeling high-frequency details.

Contribution

It integrates wavelet frequency decomposition into MVS and NeRF, allowing for high-frequency detail preservation and generalization without per-scene optimization.

Findings

Outperforms existing methods on multiple benchmarks.

Achieves high-quality synthesis with only three input images.

Effectively preserves high-frequency details in novel views.

Abstract

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive performance in novel view synthesis via implicit scene representation. However, it usually suffers from poor scalability as requiring densely sampled images for each new scene. Several studies have attempted to mitigate this problem by integrating Multi-View Stereo (MVS) technique into NeRF while they still entail a cumbersome fine-tuning process for new scenes. Notably, the rendering quality will drop severely without this fine-tuning process and the errors mainly appear around the high-frequency features. In the light of this observation, we design WaveNeRF, which integrates wavelet frequency decomposition into MVS and NeRF to achieve generalizable yet high-quality synthesis without any per-scene optimization. To preserve high-frequency information when generating 3D feature volumes, WaveNeRF builds Multi-View Stereo in the Wavelet domain by integrating the discrete wavelet transform into the classical cascade MVS, which disentangles high-frequency information explicitly. With that, disentangled frequency features can be injected into classic NeRF via a novel hybrid neural renderer to yield faithful high-frequency details, and an intuitive frequency-guided sampling strategy can be designed to suppress artifacts around high-frequency regions. Extensive experiments over three widely studied benchmarks show that WaveNeRF achieves superior generalizable radiance field modeling when only given three images as input.