NeRF-HuGS: Improved Neural Radiance Fields in Non-static Scenes Using Heuristics-Guided Segmentation

Jiahao Chen, Yipeng Qin, Lingjie Liu, Jiangbo Lu, Guanbin Li; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 19436-19446

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been widely recognized for its excellence in novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction. However their effectiveness is inherently tied to the assumption of static scenes rendering them susceptible to undesirable artifacts when confronted with transient distractors such as moving objects or shadows. In this work we propose a novel paradigm namely "Heuristics-Guided Segmentation" (HuGS) which significantly enhances the separation of static scenes from transient distractors by harmoniously combining the strengths of hand-crafted heuristics and state-of-the-art segmentation models thus significantly transcending the limitations of previous solutions. Furthermore we delve into the meticulous design of heuristics introducing a seamless fusion of Structure-from-Motion (SfM)-based heuristics and color residual heuristics catering to a diverse range of texture profiles. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority and robustness of our method in mitigating transient distractors for NeRFs trained in non-static scenes. Project page: https://cnhaox.github.io/NeRF-HuGS/