How to reproduce the results of the paper? How to set up the YAML file?

[MagicTZ]

Nice work！Thanks for your released code.

I have a question regarding conducting experiments on the Barn scene of the Tanks dataset using the default.yaml file, I found that the results were worse than those in the paper. My yaml file is configured as follows:

model:
  num_layers: 8
  freeze_network: False
  use_image_feature: False
  network_type: official
  occ_activation: softplus
  hidden_dim: 256  
  pos_enc_levels: 10
  dir_enc_levels: 4
dataloading:
  dataset_name: any
  path: 
  scene: []
  batchsize: 1
  n_workers: 1
  img_size:
  path:
  with_depth: False
  with_mask: False
  spherify: True
  customized_poses: False #use poses other than colmap
  customized_focal: False #use focal other than colmap
  resize_factor: 
  depth_net: dpt
  generate_dpt: False
  crop_size: 0
  random_ref: 1
  norm_depth: False
  load_colmap_poses: True
  shuffle: True
  sample_rate: 8

rendering:
  type: nope_nerf # changed
  n_max_network_queries: 64000 
  white_background: False
  radius: 4.0
  num_points: 128 
  depth_range: [0.01, 10]
  dist_alpha: False
  use_ray_dir: True
  normalise_ray: True
  normal_loss: False
  sample_option: uniform 
  outside_steps: 0
depth:
  type: None
  path: DPT/dpt_hybrid-midas-501f0c75.pt
  non_negative: True
  scale: 0.000305
  shift: 0.1378
  invert: True
  freeze: True
pose:
  learn_pose: False
  learn_R: True
  learn_t: True
  init_pose: False
  init_R_only: False
  learn_focal: False
  update_focal: True
  fx_only: False
  focal_order: 2
  init_pose_type: gt
  init_focal_type: gt
distortion:
  learn_distortion: True
  fix_scaleN: True
  learn_scale: True
  learn_shift: True
training:
  type: nope_nerf
  load_dir: model.pt
  load_pose_dir: model_pose.pt
  load_focal_dir: model_focal.pt
  load_distortion_dir: model_distortion.pt
  n_training_points: 1024 
  scheduling_epoch: 10000 
  batch_size: 1
  learning_rate: 0.001
  focal_lr: 0.001
  pose_lr: 0.0005
  distortion_lr: 0.0005
  weight_decay: 0.0
  scheduler_gamma_pose: 0.9
  scheduler_gamma: 0.9954
  scheduler_gamma_distortion: 0.9
  scheduler_gamma_focal: 0.9
  validate_every: -1
  visualize_every: 10000
  eval_pose_every: 1 # epoch
  eval_img_every: 1 # epoch
  print_every: 100
  backup_every: 10000
  checkpoint_every: 5000
  rgb_weight: [1.0, 1.0] # rgb loss
  depth_weight: [0.04, 0.0] # depth loss
  weight_dist_2nd_loss: [0.0, 0.0] 
  weight_dist_1st_loss: [0.0, 0.0]
  pc_weight: [1.0, 0.0] # point cloud loss
  rgb_s_weight: [1.0, 0.0] 
  depth_consistency_weight: [0.0, 0.0] 
  rgb_loss_type: l1
  depth_loss_type: l1 
  log_scale_shift_per_view: False
  with_auto_mask: False
  vis_geo: True
  vis_resolution: [54, 96]
  mode: train
  with_ssim: False
  use_gt_depth: False
  load_ckpt_model_only: False 
  optim: Adam
  detach_gt_depth: False
  match_method: dense
  pc_ratio: 4
  shift_first: False
  detach_ref_img: True
  scheduling_start: 10000 
  auto_scheduler: True
  length_smooth: 1000
  patient: 30
  scale_pcs: True
  detach_rgbs_scale: False
  scheduling_mode: 
  vis_reprojection_every: 5000
  nearest_limit: 0.01
  annealing_epochs: 2000 
extract_images:
  extraction_dir: extraction
  N_novel_imgs: 120
  traj_option: bspline
  use_learnt_poses: True
  use_learnt_focal: True
  resolution:
  model_file: model.pt
  model_file_pose: model_pose.pt
  model_file_focal: model_focal.pt
  eval_depth: False
  bspline_degree: 100
eval_pose:
  n_points: 1024
  type: nope_nerf
  type_to_eval: eval
  opt_pose_epoch: 1000
  extraction_dir: extraction
  init_method: pre
  opt_eval_lr: 0.001

In addition, my experimental environment is Ubuntu 20.04, RTX 4090. Can you help me check if any configuration needs to be modified or if there are other optimization methods not mentioned in the code?

[bianwenjing]

Hi, thanks for your interest in our work. Your script seems to be correct. Due to the randomness involved in the optimisation process, it may be difficult to replicate the exact results reported in the paper. Therefore, if your result is slightly better or worse than the reported one, it is normal. If your current result is not satisfactory, you can try changing cfg['training']['learning_rate'] to 0.0005.

[MagicTZ]

Thanks for your reply. I tried it again with this config and it works!!
However, there is another question regarding the Yaml file setting. I found that the ['pose']['learn_pose'] and ['pose']['learn_focal'] in default.yaml are both set to False. Therefore, I would like to ask if the results of the experiment were achieved without learning pose and focal length.

[bianwenjing]

Hi, in the paper experiments, we learn camera poses with NeRF model. And in the config files of our code, we set ['pose']['learn_pose'] to True in every file we are actually using to execute the training code, which can overwrite the setting in default.yaml. I have also updated the default setting of ['pose']['learn_pose'] to avoid any confusion, thanks!