# ActiveNeRF: Learning Accurate 3D Geometry by Active Pattern Projection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06592 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.06592/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 16 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Aug 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.10689/) (2021)
- [Nerfies: Deformable Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12948/) (2020)
- [Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.12052/) (2021)
- [A Large Dataset to Train Convolutional Networks for Disparity, Optical Flow, and Scene Flow Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.02134/) (2015)
- [MVSNet: Depth Inference for Unstructured Multi-view Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02505/) (2018)
- [Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.13084/) (2020)
- [Geo-Neus: Geometry-Consistent Neural Implicit Surfaces Learning for Multi-view Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.15848/) (2022)
- [Point-Based Multi-View Stereo Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04422/) (2019)
- [Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.14217/) (2021)
- [Delicate Textured Mesh Recovery from NeRF via Adaptive Surface Refinement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.02091/) (2023)
- [Neural Inverse Rendering for General Reflectance Photometric Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.10328/) (2018)
- [ActiveStereoNet: End-to-End Self-Supervised Learning for Active Stereo Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.06009/) (2018)
- [Uncalibrated Neural Inverse Rendering for Photometric Stereo of General Surfaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.06777/) (2020)
- [ActiveZero: Mixed Domain Learning for Active Stereovision with Zero Annotation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.02772/) (2021)
- [NeRFs: The Search for the Best 3D Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02751/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

NeRFs have achieved incredible success in novel view synthesis. However, the accuracy of the implicit geometry is unsatisfactory because the passive static environmental illumination has low spatial frequency and cannot provide enough information for accurate geometry reconstruction. In this work, we propose ActiveNeRF, a 3D geometry reconstruction framework, which improves the geometry quality of NeRF by actively projecting patterns of high spatial frequency onto the scene using a projector which has a constant relative pose to the camera. We design a learnable active pattern rendering pipeline which jointly learns the scene geometry and the active pattern. We find that, by adding the active pattern and imposing its consistency across different views, our proposed method outperforms state of the art geometry reconstruction methods qualitatively and quantitatively in both simulation and real experiments. Code is avaliable at https://github.com/hcp16/active_nerf