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NeXT: Towards High Quality Neural Radiance Fields via Multi-skip Transformer

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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) methods show impressive performance for novel view synthesis by representing a scene via a neural network. However, most existing NeRF based methods, including its variants, treat each sample point individually as input, while ignoring the inherent relationships between adjacent sample points from the corresponding rays, thus hindering the reconstruction performance. To address this issue, we explore a brand new scheme, namely NeXT, introducing a multi-skip transformer to capture the rich relationships between various sample points in a ray-level query. Specifically, ray tokenization is proposed to represent each ray as a sequence of point embeddings which is taken as input of our proposed NeXT. In this way, relationships between sample points are captured via the built-in self-attention mechanism to promote the reconstruction. Besides, our proposed NeXT can be easily combined with other NeRF based methods to improve their rendering quality. Extensive experiments conducted on three datasets demonstrate that NeXT significantly outperforms all previous state-of-the-art work by a large margin. In particular, the proposed NeXT surpasses the strong NeRF baseline by 2.74 dB of PSNR on Blender dataset. The code is available at https://github.com/Crishawy/NeXT.

Y Wang and Y Li—Equal contribution.

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This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62171248, and the PCNL KEY project (PCL2021A07).

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Wang, Y., Li, Y., Liu, P., Dai, T., Xia, ST. (2022). NeXT: Towards High Quality Neural Radiance Fields via Multi-skip Transformer. In: Avidan, S., Brostow, G., Cissé, M., Farinella, G.M., Hassner, T. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13692. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19824-3_5

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