IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing

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This repository contains the implementation of our paper IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing.

You can find detailed usage instructions for installation, dataset preparation, training and testing below.

If you find our code useful, please cite:

@inproceedings{WangCVPR2024,
  title   = {IntrinsicAvatar: Physically Based Inverse Rendering of Dynamic Humans from Monocular Videos via Explicit Ray Tracing},
  author  = {Shaofei Wang and Bo\v{z}idar Anti\'{c} and Andreas Geiger and Siyu Tang},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year    = {2024}
}

Requirements

• This repository is tested on Ubuntu 20.04/CentOS 7.9.2009 with Python 3.10, PyTorch 1.13 and CUDA 11.6.
• NVIDIA GPU with at least 24GB VRAM. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is recommended.
• GCC/C++ 8 or higher.
• openexr library. Can be obtained on Ubuntu via sudo apt install openexr.

Install

Code and SMPL Setup

• Clone the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/taconite/IntrinsicAvatar.git

• Download SMPL v1.0 for Python 2.7 from SMPL website (for male and female models), and SMPLIFY_CODE_V2.ZIP from SMPLify website (for the neutral model). After downloading, inside SMPL_python_v.1.0.0.zip, male and female models are smpl/models/basicmodel_m_lbs_10_207_0_v1.0.0.pkl and smpl/models/basicModel_f_lbs_10_207_0_v1.0.0.pkl, respectively. Inside mpips_smplify_public_v2.zip, the neutral model is smplify_public/code/models/basicModel_neutral_lbs_10_207_0_v1.0.0.pkl. Rename these .pkl files and copy them to subdirectories under ./data/SMPLX/smpl/. Eventually, the ./data folder should have the following structure:

data
 └-- SMPLX
    └-- smpl
       ├-- SMPL_FEMALE.pkl
       ├-- SMPL_MALE.pkl
       └-- SMPL_NEUTRAL.pkl

Environment Setup

• Create a Python virtual environment via either venv or conda
• Install PyTorch>=1.13 here based on the package management tool you are using and your cuda version (older PyTorch versions may work but have not been tested)
• Install tiny-cuda-nn PyTorch extension: pip install git+https://github.com/NVlabs/tiny-cuda-nn/#subdirectory=bindings/torch
• Install other packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Set PYTHONPATH to the current working directory: export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}

Dataset Preparation

Please follow the steps in DATASET.md.

Training

Training and validation use wandb for logging, which is free to use but requires online register. If you don't want to use it, append logger.offline=true to your command.

To train on the male-3-casual sequence of PeopleSnapshot, use the following command:

python launch.py dataset=peoplesnapshot/male-3-casual tag=IA-male-3-casual

Checkpoints, code snapshot, and visualizations will be saved under the directory exp/intrinsic-avatar-male-3-casual/male-3-casual@YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS

Testing

To test on the male-3-casual sequence for relighting on within-distribution poses, use the following command:

python launch.py mode=test \
    resume=${PATH_TO_CKPT} \
    dataset=peoplesnapshot/male-3-casual \
    dataset.hdri_filepath=hdri_images/city.hdr \
    light=envlight_tensor \
    model.render_mode=light \ # light importance sampling
    model.global_illumination=false \
    model.samples_per_pixel=1024 \
    model.resample_light=false \ # set to true if you are doing quantitative evaluation
    tag=IA-male-3-casual \
    model.add_emitter=true  # set to false if you are doing quantitative evaluation

To test on the male-3-casual sequence for relighting on out-of-distribution poses, use the following command:

python launch.py mode=test \
    resume=${PATH_TO_CKPT} \
    dataset=animation/male-3-casual \
    dataset.hdri_filepath=hdri_images/city.hdr \
    light=envlight_tensor \
    model.render_mode=light \
    model.global_illumination=false \
    model.samples_per_pixel=1024 \
    model.resample_light=false \
    tag=IA-male-3-casual \
    model.add_emitter=true

NOTE: if you encounter the error mismatched input '=' expecting <EOF>, it is most likely because your checkpoint path contains = (which is the default checkpoint format of this repo). In such a case you can quote twice, e.g. use 'resume="${PATH_TO_CKPT}"'. For details please check this Hydra issue.

TODO

• Blender script to render SyntheticHuman-relit from the SyntheticHuman dataset
• Proper mesh export code
• Unified dataset loader for PeopleSnapshot (monocular), RANA/SyntheticHuman (synthetic), and ZJU (multi-view)

Acknowledgement

Our code structure is based on instant-nsr-pl. The importance sampling code (lib/nerfacc) follows the structure of NeRFAcc. The SMPL mesh visualization code (utils/smpl_renderer.py) is borrowed from NeuralBody. The LBS-based deformer code (models/deformers/fast-snarf) is borrowed from Fast-SNARF and InstantAvatar. We thank authors of these papers for their wonderful works which greatly facilitates the development of our project.