The objective of the project is to select frames that maximize pose DIVERSITY and help NeRF generalize effectively under constrained input budget.

In our experiments we utlize nerf_synthetic dataset from NeRF that comprises of 8 subjects.

While most of the dependencies can be installed with pip requirements.txt file but installing pytorch3d can be problematic on some systems which require that the version of cuda, python and pytorch itself be compatible. Our setup consisted of the following versions:

• Python 3.9
• Cuda 11.8
• Pytorch 2.1.2

Once the above versions are setup, run the utils > pytorch3d_version.py to extract part of the url and substitute in the url pip install --no-index --no-cache-dir pytorch3d -f https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/pytorch3d/packaging/wheels/<replace-str-here>/download.html

The shell scripts under jobs_scripts directory can be utilized to schedule jobs on Ruche server. script_baseline.sh runs the baseline models while script_clustering.sh runs the HDBScan experiments with Optuna on whole NeRF dataset.

The two main important files are:

• baseline_models.py runs baseline models on the NeRF dataset configured with $k = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25]$
• clustering_script.py runs HDBScan on the NeRF dataset configured with $k = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25]$ Upon running, these file store results in logs directory mostly in .npz files. The results including the metrics and graphs need to be explicitly plotted using visualize_results.ipynb.