RegSegField: Mask-Regularization and Hierarchical Segmentation for Novel View Synthesis from Sparse Inputs
Résumé
Radiance Field (RF) representations and their latest variant, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS), have revolutionized the field of 3D vision. Novel View Synthesis (NVS) from RF typically requires dense inputs, and for 3D-GS in particular, a high-quality point cloud from a multi-view stereo model is usually necessary. Sparse input RFs are commonly regularized by various priors, such as smoothness, depth, and appearance. Meanwhile, 3D scene segmentation has also achieved significant results with the aid of RFs, and combining the field with different semantic and physical attributes has become a trend. To further tackle NVS and 3D segmentation problems under sparse-input conditions, we introduce RegSegField, a novel pipeline to utilize 2D segmentations to aid the reconstruction of objects and parts. This method introduces a novel mask-visibility loss by matching 2D segments across different views, thus defining the 3D regions for different objects. To further optimize the correspondence of 2D segments, we introduce a hierarchical feature field supervised by a contrastive learning method, allowing iterative updates of matched mask areas. To resolve the inconsistent segmentation across different views and refine the mask matching with the help of RF geometry, we also employed a multi-level hierarchy loss. With the help of the hierarchy loss, our method facilitates scene segmentation at discrete granularity levels, whereas other methods require sampling at different scales or determining similarity thresholds. Our experiments show that our regularization approach outperforms various depth-guided NeRF methods and even enables sparse reconstruction of 3D-GS with random initialization.