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How it works?

0. Setup

Open this folder in VS Code Dev Container extension!

tmux new -s nerf_studio

docker run -it --rm -v /gel/usr/{USER_NAME}:/mnt/workspace/ -v /home-local2/{USER_NAME}.extra.nobkp/:/mnt/data/ --gpus '"device=0"' -p 8008:8008 -p 6006:6006 lantern_docker:latest /bin/bash

cd /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR

git clone https://github.com/MrKarimiD/nerfstudio-HDR.git
conda activate nerfstudio-HDR
export PYTHONPATH=$pwd:$PYTHONPATH
pip install scikit-surgerycore pydub skylibs piq OpenEXR Imath equilib
pip install -e .
ns-install-cli

pip install -U git+https://github.com/luca-medeiros/lang-segment-anything.git
If lang-sam not installed, do the following...
cd ../lang-segment-anything
pip install .
cd ../nerfstudio-HDR

If there is an issue with equilib, do the following...

pip uninstall equilib
cd ../equilib
python setup.py develop
cd ../nerfstudio-HDR

1. Data acquisition & pre-processing

  1. Setup the apparatus (stick with two Ricoh cameras)

    Cameras:

    Camera 1: left, well-exposed, serial: YN14100695
    Camera 3: right, fast-exposed (under-exposed), serial: YN14111000

    • To connect the other camera:
      • Turn wifi off
      • Close the app
      • Turn wifi on
      • Open the app
      • Connect the other camera
    • Camera setup:
      • Install Ricoh Theta app
      • Connect the camera to the app
      • Change camera parameters: select manual (bottom right)
        • First time: turn on "CT Settings" in Shooting settings
        • Apreture: 2.1
        • Shutter speed: determined below
        • ISO: 800
        • WB: 3500
    • Make sure the cameras point up to avoid having lights in the seam.
    • Make sure to film up and down to get good coverage
  2. First capture with well-exposed cameras.

    • Change shutter speed to get a well-exposed image. Note the shutter speed.
    • Start the video on one camera. Connect to the other camera following the steps above and start the video on the second camera.
    • Clap at the beginning and at the end to use for synchronization.
    • Go around the scene with the two cameras well-exposed.
  3. Second capture with Camera 1 (left) well-exposed and Camera 2 (right) fast-exposed. Change shutter speed of Camera 2 to 1/25000 (fastest exposure) and repeat the steps above

    If calculating METRICS: Capture GT HDR brakets

    • Go to settings and change the camera mode shooting method to multiple brackets
    • Set the camera parameters:
      • Apreture: 2.1
      • Shutter speed: Calculate the 11 shutter speeds and select the closest ones on the app in order from smallest to hightes
        python lantern_scripts/calculate_exposures.py --min 0.00004 --max 0.004
        
      • ISO: 800
      • WB: 3500
    • Take 10 different locations
  4. Import the files on computer. If on a mac, use Ricoh Theta File Transfer for Mac

  5. Get the equirectangular videos by processing them with the Ricoh Theta computer app.

    • Drag and drop the video file into the app window.
    • Make sure both boxes are unchecked.
    • Name files as fallows
      • Camera 1:
        • First capture: left_sfm
        • Second capture: left_e1
      • Camera 2 (fast exposed):
        • First capture: right_sfm
        • Second capture: right_e2

    If calculating METRICS: Group GT brackets under GT folder like so GT/ GT1/ 001.jpg 002.jpg ... GT2/ ... ...

  6. Transfer files on lab machine.

    scp -r /path/to/source/file /path/to/destination/
    
  7. Process the videos for OpenSFM. Input the right shutter speed noted above.

    If not calculating metrics:

    python lantern_scripts/process_videos_for_sfm.py --input_dir /mnt/data/scene/ --shutter_speed 0.004
    

    If calculating METRICS:

    python lantern_scripts/process_videos_for_sfm.py --input_dir /mnt/data/scene/ --shutter_speed 0.004 --gt
    
    • Resize GT_exr and GT_jpg images to 3840x1920 with GNU Image Manipulation Program
      • Go to Image > Scale Image
      • Transfer those back on lab machine in th GT folder of the scene naming them GT_jpg_small and GT_exr_small
    • Add GT_jpg images into sfm/images/ with their appropriate mask (checkout stick_masks folder)

2. Process data using OpenSFM

bin/opensfm_run_all /mnt/data/scene/sfm/

To view results:

python3 viewer/server.py -d /mnt/data/scene/sfm/

Check that the camera positions make sense and that the number of clusters is low.

2. Process data for NeRF

ns-process-data lantern-openSFM  --data /mnt/data/scene/data/  --output-dir /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/ --metadata  /mnt/data/scene/sfm/reconstruction.json

For processing existing dataset that used colmap for camera positions:

ns-process-data images --data /mnt/data/garden/images --output-dir /mnt/data/garden_processed --skip-colmap --skip-image-processing --colmap-model-path /mnt/data/garden/sparse/0

3. Train NeRF

  1. Run step 1 of lantern-nerfacto.

    ns-train lantern-nerfacto --data /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/ --viewer.websocket-port 8008 --pipeline.datamanager.train-num-images-to-sample-from 1800 --pipeline.model.lantern_steps 1 --pipeline.datamanager.pixel-sampler.lantern_steps 1 --max-num-iterations 60000
    

    1.1. For better alignment between the well and the fast exposed images, run the following command.

    python lantern_scripts/align_fast_to_well.py --input_dir /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/ --config outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-08-07_143013/config.yml
    
  2. Run step 2 of lantern-nerfacto.

    ns-train lantern-nerfacto --data /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/ --viewer.websocket-port 8008 --pipeline.datamanager.train-num-images-to-sample-from 1800 --pipeline.model.lantern_steps 2 --pipeline.datamanager.pixel-sampler.lantern_steps 2 --load-dir /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR/outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-10_155559/nerfstudio_models --pipeline.model.apply_mu_law False
    

4. View results

To use the interface:

ns-viewer --load-config outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-06_191338/config.yml --viewer.websocket-port 8008
  • For the right side up:
    • Go to SCENE sub-menu.
    • Clic on RESET UP DIRECTION.
  • To render a video with the interface command:
    • Go to RENDER sub-menu.
    • Clic on ADD CAMERA to manualy set camera view points.
    • Clic on RENDER to get the command.
      ns-render camera-path --load-config outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-06_191338/config.yml --camera-path-filename /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/camera_paths/2024-06-06_191338.json --output-path /mnt/data/scene/renders/2024-06-06_191338.mp4
      
    • To render a video fast-exposed: add --rendered-output-names rgb_fast
      ns-render camera-path --load-config outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-06_191338/config.yml --camera-path-filename /mnt/data/scene/scene_ns/camera_paths/2024-06-06_191338.json --output-path /mnt/data/scene/renders/2024-06-06_191338.mp4 --rendered-output-names rgb_fast
      

To get evaluation images (well-exposed):

ns-eval --load-config=outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-17_152246/config.yml --output-path=output.json --render_output_path=/mnt/data/scene/eval
  • To get fast-exposed evaluation images, change these two lines in nerfstudio/lantern/model.py:

    line 238: if batch["exposure"] != 1.0: # change to == for testing fast-exposed
    line 242: return None, None # comment for testing fast-exposed
    
  • To get evaluation images and tensorboard:

    ns-eval --load-config=outputs/scene_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2024-06-20_142413/config.yml --output-path=output.json --render_output_path=/mnt/data/scene/eval  --vis viewer+tensorboard
    
  • To load tensorboard results:

    tensorboard --logdir=/path/to/file
    

4. Calculate metrics

python lantern_scripts/calculate_metrics.py --input_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/ --checkpoint /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR/outputs/coffee_room2_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2025-01-22_194346/ --metric_name unaligned

and point #8

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  1. Get ground truth transformations:

    ns-process-data lantern-GT-HDR --data /mnt/data/coffee_room2/coffee_room2_ns/ --output-dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics --metadata /mnt/data/coffee_room2/sfm/reconstruction.json --checkpoint /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR/outputs/coffee_room2_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2025-01-22_194346/
    
  2. Render panos at ground truth positions for well and fast exposed:

    ns-render camera-path --load-config /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR/outputs/coffee_room2_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2025-01-22_194346/config.yml --camera-path-filename /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/GT_transforms.json --output-path /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned --output-format images
    
    ns-render camera-path --load-config /mnt/workspace/lantern/nerfstudio-HDR/outputs/coffee_room2_ns/lantern-nerfacto/2025-01-22_194346/config.yml --camera-path-filename /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/GT_transforms.json --output-path /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_fast --output-format images --rendered_output_names rgb_fast
    
  3. Combine both well and fast exposed panos:

    python lantern_scripts/combine.py --well_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned/ --fast_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_fast/ --out_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_lin/ --experiment_location /mnt/data/coffee_room2/data/ --do_linearization
    
  4. Make sure the panos from renders have the same names as the GT panos.

  5. Calculate PSNR, SSIM and LPIPS:

    python lantern_scripts/ldr_res.py --gt_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/GT/GT_exr/  --data_dir /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_lin/
    
  6. Generate GT and results renders with blender:

    blender --background lantern_scripts/scene_new.blend -P lantern_scripts/hdr_blender.py -- /mnt/data/coffee_room2/GT/GT_exr/ /mnt/data/coffee_room2/GT/GT_exr_renders/
    
    blender --background lantern_scripts/scene_new.blend -P lantern_scripts/hdr_blender.py -- /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_lin/ /mnt/data/coffee_room2/metrics/renders/unaligned_lin_renders/
    
  7. Calculate si-RMSE, RMSE, RGB ang. and PSNR (LDR r.). Need to change values in code:

    python lantern_scripts/res_table_1.py
    
  8. Convert exr panos to hdr:

    convert GT1.exr GT1.hdr
    
  9. Calulate PU-PSNR, HDR-VDP and PU-SSIM following the steps in the following link: https://github.com/darthgera123/PanoHDR-NeRF/tree/main/LANet/metrics

    cd hdrvdp-3.0.6
    
    matlab -batch "metric('../../data/GT_meeting_room/', '../../data/results_meeting_room/')"
    
    cd ../pu21/matlab/examples
    
    matlab -batch "pupsnr('../../../../data/GT_meeting_room/', '../../../../data/results_meeting_room/')"