Entangled View-Epipolar Information Aggregation for Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields

Zhiyuan Min, Yawei Luo, Wei Yang, Yuesong Wang, Yi Yang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 4906-4916

Generalizable NeRF can directly synthesize novel views across new scenes eliminating the need for scene-specific retraining in vanilla NeRF. A critical enabling factor in these approaches is the extraction of a generalizable 3D representation by aggregating source-view features. In this paper we propose an Entangled View-Epipolar Information Aggregation method dubbed EVE-NeRF. Different from existing methods that consider cross-view and along-epipolar information independently EVE-NeRF conducts the view-epipolar feature aggregation in an entangled manner by injecting the scene-invariant appearance continuity and geometry consistency priors to the aggregation process. Our approach effectively mitigates the potential lack of inherent geometric and appearance constraint resulting from one-dimensional interactions thus further boosting the 3D representation generalizablity. EVE-NeRF attains state-of-the-art performance across various evaluation scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstate that compared to prevailing single-dimensional aggregation the entangled network excels in the accuracy of 3D scene geometry and appearance reconstruction. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/tatakai1/EVENeRF.