This is the official implementation of the paper Deblur-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images

Deblur-NeRF

Deblur-NeRF is a method for restoring a sharp NeRF given blurry multi-view input images. It works for camera motion blur, out-of-focus blur, or even object motion blur. If you are interested, please find more information on the website here.

Method Overview

When rendering a ray, we first predict N sparse optimized rays based on a canonical kernel along with their weights. After rendering these rays, we combine the results to get the blurry pixel. During testing, we can directly render the rays without kernel deformation resulting in a sharp image.

Quick Start

1. Install environment

git clone https://github.com/limacv/Deblur-NeRF.git
cd Deblur-NeRF
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Download dataset

There are total of 31 scenes used in the paper. We mainly focus on camera motion blur and defocus blur, so we use 5 synthetic scenes and 10 real world scenes for each blur type. We also include one case of object motion blur. You can download all the data in here.

For a quick demo, please download blurball data inside real_camera_motion_blur folder.

3. Setting parameters

Changing the data path and log path in the configs/demo_blurball.txt

4. Execute

python3 run_nerf.py --config configs/demo_blurball.txt

This will generate MLP weights and intermediate results in <basedir>/<expname>, and generate tensorboard files in <tbdir>

Some Notes

GPU memory

One drawback of our method is the large memory usage. Since we need to render multiple rays to generate only one color, we require a lot more memory to do that. We train our model on a V100 GPU with 32GB GPU memory. If you have less memory, setting N_rand to a smaller value, or use multiple GPUs.

Multiple GPUs

you can simply set num_gpu = <num_gpu> to use multiple gpus. It is implemented using torch.nn.DataParallel. We've optimized the code to reduce the data transfering in each iteration, but it may still suffer from low GPU usable if you use too much GPU.

Optimizing the CRF

As described in the paper, we use gamma function to model the nonlinearity of the blur kernel convolution (i.e. CRF). We provide an optional solution to optimize a learnable CRF function that transfer the color from linear space to the image color space. We've found that optimizing a learnable CRF sometimes achieves better visual performance.

To make the CRF learnable, change the config to tone_mapping_type = learn.

Rollback to the original NeRF

By setting kernel_type = none, our implementation runs the original implementation of NeRF.

Generate synthetic dataset

We released the raw blender files to generate synthetic dataset in the dataset link above. Running the script in the blender files gives you synthetic data format. To convert them to the llff data format, run python script in scripts/synthe2poses.py. (Some path variables need to be changed)

Your own data

The code digests the same data format as in the original implementation of NeRF (with the only difference being the images maybe blurry). So you can just use their data processing scripts to generate camera poses to poses_bounds.npy.

Since all of our datasets are of type "llff" (face forward dataset), we do not support other dataset_type. But it should be relatively easy to migrate to other dataset_type.

Limitation

Our method does not work for consistent blur. For example, in the defocus blur case, if all the input views focus on the same foreground, leaving the background blur, our method only gives you NeRF with sharp foreground and blur background. Please check our paper for the definition of consistent blur. This is left for future work.

Citation

If you find this useful, please consider citing our paper:

@misc{li2022deblurnerf,
    title={Deblur-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images},
    author={Ma, Li and Li, Xiaoyu and Liao, Jing and Zhang, Qi and Wang, Xuan and Wang, Jue and Pedro V. Sander},
    year={2021},
    eprint={2111.14292},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Acknowledge

This source code is derived from the famous pytorch reimplementation of NeRF, nerf-pytorch. We appreciate the effort of the contributor to that repository.