Encoding Lightfields with Coordinate-based Neural Networks

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About the Project

Neural Lightfields

  • Lightfields are a 4D structure consisting of sub aperture images arranged in a sphere around the viewer
  • A Plenoptic camera, which simulates an array of individual cameras, is used to capture lightfields
  • They contain data capable of recreating 3D scenes, say for virtual reality
  • Neural Lightfields are created using a trained neural network

Coordinate-based Neural Networks

  • Coordinate Based Neural Networks are used in Computer Vision tasks to encode and compress N-Dimensional structures
  • Using a simple RGB image as an example:
    • Input Vector à 3D Coordinate
    • Output Vector à RGB Pixel Value
  • On more complex media i.e. 5D Voxel grid, a network can provide high compression
    • 5D Voxel Grid (+10Gb) à Trained weights (~5Mb)
  • Model Weights are trained to encode a single N-Dimensional structure
    • Every new example must be trained individually
    • This is slow and not ideal for real time applications

Model Agnostic Meta Learning (MAML)

  • Normally, starting weights for training a model are random
  • If the targets of training are similar images for CBN, we can find starting weights that make training converge faster

  Team

Samuel Cole, Computer Science

Dr. Jonathan Ventura, Computer Science

   Presentation