Multi-View Supervision for Single-View Reconstruction via Differentiable Ray Consistency.

Tulsiani, Shubham; Zhou, Tinghui; Efros, Alexei A; Malik, Jitendra · IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We study the notion of consistency between a 3D shape and a 2D observation and propose a differentiable formulation which allows computing gradients of the 3D shape given an observation from an arbitrary view. We do so by reformulating view consistency using a differentiable ray consistency (DRC) term. We show that this formulation can be incorporated in a learning framework to leverage different types of multi-view observations e.g., foreground masks, depth, color images, semantics etc. as supervision for learning single-view 3D prediction. We present empirical analysis of our technique in a controlled setting. We also show that this approach allows us to improve over existing techniques for single-view reconstruction of objects from the PASCAL VOC dataset.