NeRF-Aug: Data Augmentation for Robotics with Neural Radiance Fields

Eric Zhu, Mara Levy, Matthew Gwilliam, Abhinav Shrivastava
11/4/2024
cs.ROcs.CVcs.LG

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Training a policy that can generalize to unknown objects is a long standing challenge within the field of robotics. The performance of a policy often drops significantly in situations where an object in the scene was not seen during training. To solve this problem, we present NeRF-Aug, a novel method that is capable of teaching a policy to interact with objects that are not present in the dataset. This approach differs from existing approaches by leveraging the speed, photorealism, and 3D consistency of a neural radiance field for augmentation. NeRF-Aug both creates more photorealistic data and runs 63% faster than existing methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on 5 tasks with 9 novel objects that are not present in the expert demonstrations. We achieve an average performance boost of 55.6% when comparing our method to the next best method. You can see video results at https://nerf-aug.github.io.

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@article{zhu2024nerfaug,
  title  = {NeRF-Aug: Data Augmentation for Robotics with Neural Radiance Fields},
  author = {Eric Zhu and Mara Levy and Matthew Gwilliam and Abhinav Shrivastava},
  year   = {2024},
  eprint = {2411.02482},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02482v3}
}

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