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(1/2) Mesh2NeRF: Direct Mesh Supervision for Neural Radiance Field Representation and Generation #ECCV2024! We show a theoretical derivation to create radiance fields directly from meshes. Thus, we can obtain GT training data for generative NeRF methods.

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Matthias Niessner1 year ago

(2/2) Main idea: Mesh2NeRF characterizes the density field as an occupancy function around the surface, and it determines view-dependent color through its underlying reflection function. Great work by @YujinChen_cv, @yinyu_nie, B. Ummenhofer, R. Birkl, M. Paulitsch, M. Mueller.

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Eugene1 year ago

That’s a huge improvement! ✨

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