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Ref-NeRF: Structured View-Dependent Appearance for Neural Radiance Fields
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replace view-direction input with reflected-direction parameterization (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 29.47 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Add the normal orientation loss (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | MAE°: 52.56 -> 18.38 | Helped |
| Use predicted normals to compute reflection directions (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 30.91 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Do not append view direction to the directional MLP input (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 35.42 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Include the normal-view dot product as an input instead of fixing the lobe (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 35.52 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Add diffuse color as an explicit component (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 33.32 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Add specular tint as an explicit component (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 35.45 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Model material roughness explicitly (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 33.39 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Use integrated directional encoding instead of positional encoding (ablation) | Ref-NeRF · Shiny Blender | PSNR: 35.90 -> 35.96 | Helped |
| Use Ref-NeRF rather than Mip-NeRF | novel-view rendering · Blender | PSNR: 33.09 -> 33.99 | Helped |
| Use Ref-NeRF rather than Mip-NeRF | normal estimation · Blender | MAE°: 38.30 -> 23.22 | Helped |
Closest papers by meaning
- NeRFReN: Neural Radiance Fields With Reflections (CVPR 2022 · similarity 0.94)
- RegNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis From Sparse Inputs (CVPR 2022 · similarity 0.93)
- NeRF On-the-go: Exploiting Uncertainty for Distractor-free NeRFs in the Wild (CVPR 2024 · similarity 0.92)
- NeRFPrior: Learning Neural Radiance Field as a Prior for Indoor Scene Reconstruction (CVPR 2025 · similarity 0.91)
- InsertNeRF: Instilling Generalizability into NeRF with HyperNet Modules (ICLR 2024 · similarity 0.91)
- NeRF-HuGS: Improved Neural Radiance Fields in Non-static Scenes Using Heuristics-Guided Segmentation (CVPR 2024 · similarity 0.91)
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