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MobileNeRF: Exploiting the Polygon Rasterization Pipeline for Efficient Neural Field Rendering on Mobile Architectures

30 Jul 2022CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2208.00277archive 2025-07-28

Zhiqin Chen, Thomas Funkhouser, Peter Hedman, Andrea Tagliasacchi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize images of 3D scenes from novel views. However, they rely upon specialized volumetric rendering algorithms based on ray marching that are mismatched to the capabilities of widely deployed graphics hardware. This paper introduces a new NeRF representation based on textured polygons that can synthesize novel images efficiently with standard rendering pipelines. The NeRF is represented as a set of polygons with textures representing binary opacities and feature vectors. Traditional rendering of the polygons with a z-buffer yields an image with features at every pixel, which are interpreted by a small, view-dependent MLP running in a fragment shader to produce a final pixel color. This approach enables NeRFs to be rendered with the traditional polygon rasterization pipeline, which provides massive pixel-level parallelism, achieving interactive frame rates on a wide range of compute platforms, including mobile phones.

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NeRFNovel View Synthesis

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Novel View Synthesis LLFF JAXNeRF LPIPS 0.173 #2 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF JAXNeRF PSNR 26.92 #2 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF JAXNeRF SSIM 0.831 #2 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF NeRF LPIPS 0.25 #7 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF NeRF PSNR 26.5 #7 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF NeRF SSIM 0.811 #7 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF MobileNeRF LPIPS 0.183 #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF MobileNeRF PSNR 25.91 #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF MobileNeRF SSIM 0.825 #10 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF SNeRG LPIPS 0.183 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF SNeRG PSNR 25.63 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis LLFF SNeRG SSIM 0.818 #12 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF++ LPIPS 0.427 #11 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF++ PSNR 22.76 #11 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF++ SSIM 0.548 #11 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 MobileNeRF LPIPS 0.47 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 MobileNeRF PSNR 21.95 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 MobileNeRF SSIM 0.47 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF LPIPS 0.515 #13 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF PSNR 21.46 #13 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis Mip-NeRF 360 NeRF SSIM 0.458 #13 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF JAXNeRF LPIPS 0.051 #8 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF JAXNeRF PSNR 31.65 #8 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF JAXNeRF SSIM 0.952 #8 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF NeRF LPIPS 0.081 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF NeRF PSNR 31 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF NeRF SSIM 0.947 #9 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF MobileNeRF LPIPS 0.062 #10 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF MobileNeRF PSNR 30.9 #10 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF MobileNeRF SSIM 0.947 #10 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF SNeRG LPIPS 0.05 #11 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF SNeRG PSNR 30.38 #11 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Novel View Synthesis NeRF SNeRG SSIM 0.95 #11 of 12 Archive leaderboard report

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