MVSplat

Official implementation of MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images

Authors: Yuedong Chen, Haofei Xu, Chuanxia Zheng, Bohan Zhuang, Marc Pollefeys, Andreas Geiger, Tat-Jen Cham and Jianfei Cai.

Project Page | arXiv | Pretrained Models

mvsplat_teaser.mp4

Installation

To get started, create a conda virtual environment using Python 3.10+ and install the requirements:

conda create -n mvsplat python=3.10
conda activate mvsplat
pip install torch==2.1.2 torchvision==0.16.2 torchaudio==2.1.2 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
pip install -r requirements.txt

Acquiring Datasets

Our MVSplat uses the same training datasets as pixelSplat. Below we quote pixelSplat's detailed instructions on getting datasets.

pixelSplat was trained using versions of the RealEstate10k and ACID datasets that were split into ~100 MB chunks for use on server cluster file systems. Small subsets of the Real Estate 10k and ACID datasets in this format can be found here. To use them, simply unzip them into a newly created datasets folder in the project root directory.

If you would like to convert downloaded versions of the Real Estate 10k and ACID datasets to our format, you can use the scripts here. Reach out to us (pixelSplat) if you want the full versions of our processed datasets, which are about 500 GB and 160 GB for Real Estate 10k and ACID respectively.

Running the Code

Evaluation

To render novel views and compute evaluation metrics from a pretrained model,

• get the pretrained models, and save them to /checkpoints

• run the following:

# re10k
python -m src.main +experiment=re10k \
checkpointing.load=checkpoints/re10k.ckpt \
mode=test \
dataset/view_sampler=evaluation \
test.compute_scores=true

# acid
python -m src.main +experiment=acid \
checkpointing.load=checkpoints/acid.ckpt \
mode=test \
dataset/view_sampler=evaluation \
dataset.view_sampler.index_path=assets/evaluation_index_acid.json \
test.compute_scores=true

• the rendered novel views will be stored under outputs/test

To render videos from a pretrained model, run the following

# re10k
python -m src.main +experiment=re10k \
checkpointing.load=checkpoints/re10k.ckpt \
mode=test \
dataset/view_sampler=evaluation \
dataset.view_sampler.index_path=assets/evaluation_index_re10k_video.json \
test.save_video=true \
test.save_image=false \
test.compute_scores=false

Training

Run the following:

# download the backbone pretrained weight from unimath and save to 'checkpoints/'
wget 'https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/avg-projects/unimatch/pretrained/gmdepth-scale1-resumeflowthings-scannet-5d9d7964.pth' -P checkpoints
# train mvsplat
python -m src.main +experiment=re10k data_loader.train.batch_size=14 \
model.encoder.unimatch_weights_path=checkpoints/gmdepth-scale1-resumeflowthings-scannet-5d9d7964.pth

Our models are trained with a single A100 (80GB) GPU. They can also be trained on multiple GPUs with smaller RAM by setting a smaller data_loader.train.batch_size per GPU.

Ablations

We also provide a collection of our ablation models (under folder 'ablations'). To evaluate them, e.g., the 'base' model, run the following command

# Table 3: base
python -m src.main +experiment=re10k \
checkpointing.load=checkpoints/ablations/re10k_worefine.ckpt \
mode=test \
dataset/view_sampler=evaluation \
test.compute_scores=true \
wandb.name=abl/re10k_base \
model.encoder.wo_depth_refine=true 

More running commands can be found at more_commands.sh.

BibTeX

@article{chen2024mvsplat,
    title   = {MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Images},
    author  = {Chen, Yuedong and Xu, Haofei and Zheng, Chuanxia and Zhuang, Bohan and Pollefeys, Marc and Geiger, Andreas and Cham, Tat-Jen and Cai, Jianfei},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14627},
    year    = {2024},
}

Acknowledgements

The project is largely based on pixelSplat and has incorporated numerous code snippets from UniMatch. Many thanks to these two projects for their excellent contributions!