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Awesome-Implicit-NeRF-Robotics

This repo contains a curative list of Implicit Representations and NeRF papers relating to Robotics/RL domain, inspired by awesome-computer-vision

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For an overview of NeRFs, checkout the Survey (Neural Volume Rendering: NeRF And Beyond), Blog post (NeRF Explosion 2020) and Collection (awesome-NeRF)

Object Pose Estimation

BundleSDF: "Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects", CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Webpage]
ShAPO: "Implicit Representations for Multi Object Shape Appearance and Pose Optimization", ECCV, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Webpage] [Video]
NCF: "Neural Correspondence Field for Object Pose Estimation", ECCV, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Webpage]
Neural-Sim: "Learning to Generate Training Data with NeRF", ECCV 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Webpage]
DISP6D: "Disentangled Implicit Shape and Pose Learning for Scalable 6D Pose Estimation", ECCV 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Webpage] [Video]
SNAKE: "SNAKE: Shape-aware Neural 3D Keypoint Field", NeurIPS, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
NeRF-RPN: "A general framework for object detection in NeRFs", CVPR 2023. [Paper] [Video]
NeRF-MAE: "Masked AutoEncoders for Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning for Neural Radiance Fields", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Webpage] [Pytorch Code]
nerf2nerf: "Pairwise Registration of Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Webpage] [Dataset]
iNeRF: "Inverting Neural Radiance Fields for Pose Estimation", IROS, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website] [Dataset]
NeRF-Pose: "A First-Reconstruct-Then-Regress Approach for Weakly-supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation", arXiv. [Paper]
PixTrack: "Precise 6DoF Object Pose Tracking using NeRF Templates and Feature-metric Alignment", arXiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
"Parallel Inversion of Neural Radiance Fields for Robust Pose Estimation", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
NARF22: "Neural Articulated Radiance Fields for Configuration-Aware Rendering", IROS, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
FroDO: "From Detections to 3D Objects", CVPR, 2020. [Paper]
SDFEst: "Categorical Pose and Shape Estimation of Objects From RGB-D Using Signed Distance Fields", RA-L, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
SSC-6D: "Self-Supervised Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation with Deep Implicit Shape Representation", AAAI, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
Style2NeRF: "An Unsupervised One-Shot NeRF for Semantic 3D Reconstruction", BMVC, 2022. [Paper]
"Shape, Pose, and Appearance from a Single Image via Bootstrapped Radiance Field Inversion", CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
TexPose: "Neural Texture Learning for Self-Supervised 6D Object Pose Estimation", CVPR 2023. [Paper][Code]
Canonical Fields: "Self-Supervised Learning of Pose-Canonicalized Neural Fields", arXiv. [Paper]
NeRF-Det: "Learning Geometry-Aware Volumetric Representation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection", arXiv. [Paper] [[Page] https://chenfengxu714.github.io/nerfdet/] [[Code] https://github.com/facebookresearch/NeRF-Det]
One-step NeRF: "Marrying NeRF with Feature Matching for One-step Pose Estimation", ICRA, 2024. [Paper] [Short Video] [[Website&Code] Coming]

SLAM

iSDF: "Real-Time Neural Signed Distance Fields for Robot Perception", RSS, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
LENS: "LENS: Localization enhanced by NeRF synthesis", CORL, 2021. [Paper]
NICE-SLAM: "Neural Implicit Scalable Encoding for SLAM", CVPR, 2021. [Paper] Pytorch Code] [Website]
iMAP: "Implicit Mapping and Positioning in Real-Time", ICCV, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
BNV-Fusion: "BNV-Fusion: Dense 3D Reconstruction using Bi-level Neural Volume Fusion", CVPR, 2022. [Paper] Pytorch Code]
NeRF-SLAM: "Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper]
NICER-SLAM: "Neural Implicit Scene Encoding for RGB SLAM", arXiv. [Paper] [Video]
Nerfels: "Renderable Neural Codes for Improved Camera Pose Estimation", CVPR 2022 Workshop. [Paper]
GO-Surf: "A Real-time Monocular Visual SLAM with ORB Features and NeRF-realized Mapping", 3DV, 2022. [Paper] [[Website(https://jingwenwang95.github.io/go_surf/)] [Pytorch Code]
Orbeez-SLAM: "Neural Feature Grid Optimization for Fast, High-Fidelity RGB-D Surface Reconstruction", arXiv, 2022. [Paper]
ESLAM: "Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fields", arXiv, 2022. [Paper]
Panoptic Multi-TSDFs: "a Flexible Representation for Online Multi-resolution Volumetric Mapping and Long-term Dynamic Scene Consistency", ICRA, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
SHINE-Mapping: "Large-Scale 3D Mapping Using Sparse Hierarchical Implicit Neural Representations", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
"SDF-based RGB-D Camera Tracking in Neural Scene Representations", ICRA Workshop, 2022. [Paper]
Loc-NeRF: "Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Code] [Video]
Vox-Fusion: "Dense Tracking and Mapping with Voxel-based Neural Implicit Representation", ISMAR, 2022. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code] [Video]
NodeSLAM: "Dense Tracking and Mapping with Voxel-based Neural Implicit Representation", 3DV, 2020. [Paper]
iLabel: "Revealing Objects in Neural Fields", RA-L, 2023. [Paper]
Nerf–: "Neural radiance fields without known camera parameters", arXiv. [Paper]
L2G-NeRF: "Local-to-Global Registration for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields", CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Website] [code]
H2-Mapping: "Real-time Dense Mapping Using Hierarchical Hybrid Representation", RA-L, 2023. [Paper] [code]
Continual Neural Mapping: "Learning An Implicit Scene Representation from Sequential Observations", ICCV, 2021. [Paper]
LATITUDE: Robotic Global Localization with Truncated Dynamic Low-pass Filter in City-scale NeRF, ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
"Dense RGB SLAM with neural implicit maps", ICLR, 2023. [Paper]
NOCaL: Calibration-free semi-supervised learning of odometry and camera intrinsics, ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Website]

IRMCL: Implicit Representation-based Online Global Localization, arXiv. [Paper] [Code]
Efficient Implicit Neural Reconstruction Using LiDAR, ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code] [Video]

vMAP: "Vectorised Object Mapping for Neural Field SLAM", CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Website]
"An Algorithm for the SE(3)-Transformation on Neural Implicit Maps for Remapping Functions", RA-L, 2022. [Paper]
"Implicit Object Reconstruction With Noisy Data", RSS Workshop, 2021. [Paper]
NeuSE: "Neural SE(3)-Equivariant Embedding for Consistent Spatial Understanding with Objects", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
ObjectFusion: "Accurate object-level SLAM with neural object priors", Graphical Models, 2022. [Paper]
NDF_Change: "Robust Change Detection Based on Neural Descriptor Fields", IROS, 2022. [Paper]
LNDF: "Local Neural Descriptor Fields: Locally Conditioned Object Representations for Manipulation", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Webpage]

NeRF-LOAM: Neural Implicit Representation for Large-Scale Incremental LiDAR Odometry and Mapping, arXiv. [Paper] [Code]

NeuralBlox: "Real-Time Neural Representation Fusion for Robust Volumetric Mapping", 3DV, 2021. [Paper] [Code]

Di-fusion: Online implicit 3d reconstruction with deep priors, CVPR, 2021.[Paper] [Pytorch Code]

CROSSFIRE: "Camera Relocalization On Self-Supervised Features from an Implicit Representation", arXiv. [Paper]
SDF-Loc: "Signed Distance Field based 2D Relocalization and Map Update in Dynamic Environments", ACC, 2019. [Paper]
iDF-SLAM: "End-to-End RGB-D SLAM with Neural Implicit Mapping and Deep Feature Tracking", arXiv. [Paper]
"Implicit Map Augmentation for Relocalization", ECCV Workshop, 2022. [Paper]
"Visual-Inertial Odometry Priors for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields", ICCAS, 2022. [Paper]
"Towards Open World NeRF-Based SLAM", arXiv, 2023. [Paper]
Uni-Fusion: Universal Continuous Mapping, arXiv, 2023.[Paper] [Website]
NEWTON: Neural View-Centric Mapping for On-the-Fly Large-Scale SLAM, arXiv, 2023.[Paper]
Point-SLAM: Dense Neural Point Cloud-based SLAM, arXiv, 2023. [Paper] [Code]
"ActiveRMAP: Radiance Field for Active Mapping And Planning", *arXiv, 2022". [Paper]
NF-Atlas: Multi-Volume Neural Feature Fields for Large Scale LiDAR Mapping, arXiv, 2023. [Paper]
RO-MAP: Real-Time Multi-Object Mapping with Neural Radiance Fields, arXiv, 2023. [Paper] [Code] [Video]
Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAM, CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Website]
Neural Implicit Dense Semantic SLAM, arXiv, 2023. [Paper]
2D-SDF-SLAM: "A Signed Distance Function based SLAM Frontend for Laser Scanners", IROS, 2015. [Paper]
LONER: "LiDAR Only Neural Representations for Real-Time SLAM", RA-L, 2023. [paper] [code] [website]

Manipulation/RL

GNFactor: "GNFactor: Multi-Task Real Robot Learning with Generalizable Neural Feature Fields", CoRL 2023 Oral Presentation. [Paper/PDF] [Code] [Website]
D3Fields: "D3Fields: Dynamic 3D Descriptor Fields for Zero-Shot Generalizable Robotic Manipulation", arXiv. [Paper] [Webpage] [Code] [Video]
SNeRL: "Semantic-aware Neural Radiance Fields for Reinforcement Learning", ICML, 2023. [Paper] [Webpage]
Ditto: "Building Digital Twins of Articulated Objects from Interaction", CVPR, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
Relational-NDF: "SE(3)-Equivariant Relational Rearrangement with Neural Descriptor Fields", CORL 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
Neural Descriptor Fields: "SE(3)-Equivariant Object Representations for Manipulation", arXiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
Evo-NeRF: "Evolving NeRF for Sequential Robot Grasping of Transparent Objects", CORL 2022. [Paper] [Website]
NeRF-RL: "Reinforcement Learning with Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
Neural Motion Fields: "Encoding Grasp Trajectories as Implicit Value Functions", RSS 2022. [Paper] [Video]
Grasping Field: "Learning Implicit Representations for Human Grasps", 3DV 2020. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Video]
Dex-NeRF: "Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects", CORL, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
NeRF-Supervision: "Learning Dense Object Descriptors from Neural Radiance Fields", ICRA, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
GIGA: "Synergies Between Affordance and Geometry: 6-DoF Grasp Detection via Implicit Representations", RSS, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
NeuralGrasps: "Learning Implicit Representations for Grasps of Multiple Robotic Hands", CORL, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
"Real-time Mapping of Physical Scene Properties with an Autonomous Robot Experimenter", CORL, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
ObjectFolder: "A Dataset of Objects with Implicit Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Representations"", CORL, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
ObjectFolder 2.0: "A Multisensory Object Dataset for Sim2Real Transfer"", CVPR, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
"Template-Based Category-Agnostic Instance Detection for Robotic Manipulation"", RA-L, 2022. [Paper]
NeRF2Real: "Sim2real Transfer of Vision-guided Bipedal Motion Skills using Neural Radiance Fields"", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
NeRF-Frenemy: "Co-Opting Adversarial Learning for Autonomy-Directed Co-Design", RSS Workshop, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
CLA-NeRF: "Category-Level Articulated Neural Radiance Field", ICRA, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
VIRDO: "Visio-tactile Implicit Representations of Deformable Objects", ICRA, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
VIRDO++:: "Real-World, Visuo-Tactile Dynamics and Perception of Deformable Objects", CORL, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
SceneCollisionNet: "Object Rearrangement Using Learned Implicit Collision Functions", ICRA, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
"RGB-D Local Implicit Function for Depth Completion of Transparent Objects", CVPR, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Models as Functionals of Signed-Distance Fields for Manipulation Planning", CORL, 2021. [Paper] [Video]
ContactNets: "Learning Discontinuous Contact Dynamics with Smooth, Implicit Representations", CORL, 2020. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
"Learning Implicit Priors for Motion Optimization", IROS, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
MIRA: "Mental Imagery for Robotic Affordances", CORL, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
NiFR: "Neural Fields for Robotic Object Manipulation from a Single Image", ICRA, 2023. [Paper]
NIFT: "Neural Interaction Field and Template for Object Manipulation", ICRA, 2023. [Paper]
"Learning 6-DoF Task-oriented Grasp Detection via Implicit Estimation and Visual Affordance", "IROS, 2022". [Paper]
GraspNeRF: "Multiview-based 6-DoF Grasp Detection for Transparent and Specular Objects Using Generalizable NeRF", ICRA, 2023. [Paper]
Touching a NeRF: "Leveraging Neural Radiance Fields for Tactile Sensory Data Generation ", CORL, 2022. [Paper]
SE(3)-DiffusionFields: "Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
Equivariant Descriptor Fields: "SE(3)-Equivariant Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Visual Robotic Manipulation Learning ", ICLR, 2023. [Paper]
KP-NERF: "Dynamical Scene Representation and Control with Keypoint-Conditioned Neural Radiance Field", CASE, 2022. [Paper]
ACID: "Action-Conditional Implicit Visual Dynamics for Deformable Object Manipulation", RSS, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
TRITON: "Neural Neural Textures Make Sim2Real Consistent", CORL, 2022. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
"Perceiving Unseen 3D Objects by Poking the Objects", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
"Feature-Realistic Neural Fusion for Real-Time, Open Set Scene Understanding", ICRA, 2023. [Paper] [Website]
CGF: "Learning Continuous Grasping Function with a Dexterous Hand from Human Demonstrations", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
NGDF: "Neural Grasp Distance Fields for Robot Manipulation", arXiv. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
NCF: "Neural Contact Fields: Tracking Extrinsic Contact with Tactile Sensing", arXiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
SPARTN: "NeRF in the Palm of Your Hand: Corrective Augmentation for Robotics via Novel-View Synthesis", arXiv. [Paper]
"RGB-Only Reconstruction of Tabletop Scenes for Collision-Free Manipulator Control", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
"Grasp Transfer based on Self-Aligning Implicit Representations of Local Surfaces", RAL, 2023. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
"A Real2Sim2Real Method for Robust Object Grasping with Neural Surface Reconstruction", arXiv. [Paper] [Video]
EndoNeRF: "Neural Rendering for Stereo 3D Reconstruction of Deformable Tissues in Robotic Surgery", MICCAI, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
NFMP: "Neural Field Movement Primitives for Joint Modelling of Scenes and Motions", IROS, 2023. [Paper] [Code] [Website]

Object Reconstruction

NTO3D: "Neural Target Object 3D Reconstruction with Segment Anything", CVPR, 2024. [Paper] [Code]
"Self-supervised Neural Articulated Shape and Appearance Models", CVPR, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
NeuS: "Learning Neural Implicit Surfacesby Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction", Neurips, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
VolSDF: "Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces", Neurips, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
UNISURF: "Unifying Neural Implicit Surfaces and Radiance Fields for Multi-View Reconstruction", ICCV, 2021. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
ObjectSDF: "Object-Compositional Neural Implicit Surfaces", ECCV, 2022. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
IDR: "Multiview Neural Surface Reconstruction by Disentangling Geometry and Appearance", Neurips, 2020. [Paper] [Website] [Pytorch Code]
DVR: "Differentiable Volumetric Rendering: Learning Implicit 3D Representations without 3D Supervision", CVPR, 2020. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
A-SDF: "Learning Disentangled Signed Distance Functions for Articulated Shape Representation", ICCV, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
CodeNeRF: "Disentangled Neural Radiance Fields for Object Categories", ICCV, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
DeepSDF: " Learning Continuous Signed Distance Functions for Shape Representation", CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
Occupancy networks: " Learning 3d reconstruction in function space", CVPR, 2019. [Paper] [Website]

Physics

"Inferring Hybrid Neural Fluid Fields from Videos", Neurips, 2023. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
DANOs: "Differentiable Physics Simulation of Dynamics-Augmented Neural Objects", arXiv. [Paper] [Video]
PAC-NeRF: "Physics Augmented Continuum Neural Radiance Fields for Geometry-Agnostic System Identification", ICLR, 23. [Paper] [Website] [Video] [Pytorch Code]
NeuPhysics: "Editable Neural Geometry and Physics from Monocular Videos", Neurips, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
NeRF-ysics: "A Differentiable Pipeline for Enriching NeRF-Represented Objects with Dynamical Properties", ICRA Workshop, 2022. [Paper]
"Neural Implicit Representations for Physical Parameter Inference from a Single Video", WACV, 2023. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
NeuroFluid: "Fluid Dynamics Grounding with Particle-Driven Neural Radiance Fields", ICML, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
"Physics Informed Neural Fields for Smoke Reconstruction with Sparse Data", SIGGRAPH, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code][Website]

Planning/Navigation

NeRFlow: "Neural Radiance Flow for 4D View Synthesis and Video Processing", ICCV, 2021. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
NeRF-Navigation: "Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World", ICRA, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code] [Website]
RNR-Map: "Renderable Neural Radiance Map for Visual Navigation", CVPR, 2023. [Paper] [Website]
"Uncertainty Guided Policy for Active Robotic 3D Reconstruction using Neural Radiance Fields", RAL, 2022. [[Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.08409.pdf)] [Website]
NeRF-dy: "3D Neural Scene Representations for Visuomotor Control", CORL, 2021. [Paper] [Website]
CompNeRFdyn: "Learning Multi-Object Dynamics with Compositional Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
PIFO: "Deep Visual Constraints: Neural Implicit Models for Manipulation Planning from Visual Input", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Continuous Environment Fields via Implicit Functions", ICLR, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Barrier Functions with Memory for Robust Safe Navigation", RA-L, 2021. [Paper]
RedSDF: "Regularized Deep Signed Distance Fields for Reactive Motion Generation", IROS, 2022. [Paper] [Website]
AutoNeRF: "Training Implicit Scene Representations with Autonomous Agents", arxiv. [Paper] [Website]
ESDF: "Sampling-free obstacle gradients and reactive planning in Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper]
CLIP-Fields: "Open-label semantic navigation with pre-trained VLMs and language models", arxiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code and Tutorials] [Website]
Voxfield: Non-Projective Signed Distance Fields for Online Planning and 3D Reconstruction", IROS, 2022. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
Voxblox: Incremental 3D Euclidean Signed Distance Fields for On-Board MAV Planning, IROS, 2017. [Paper]
NFOMP: Neural Field for Optimal Motion Planner of Differential Drive Robots With Nonholonomic Constraints", RA-L, 2022. [Paper] [Video]
CATNIPS: Collision Avoidance Through Neural Implicit Probabilistic Scenes", arXiv. [Paper]
MeSLAM: Memory Efficient SLAM based on Neural Fields, IEEE SMC, 2022. [Paper]
NTFields: "Neural Time Fields for Physics-Informed Robot Motion Planning", ICLR, 2023. [Paper]
"Real-time Semantic 3D Reconstruction for High-Touch Surface Recognition for Robotic Disinfection", IROS, 2022. [Paper]
NeurAR: "Neural Uncertainty for Autonomous 3D Reconstruction", RA-L, 2023. [Paper]
IR-MCL: "Implicit Representation-Based Online Global Localization", RA-L, 2023. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
360Roam: "Real-Time Indoor Roaming Using Geometry-Aware 360◦ Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper] [Pytorch Code]
"Learning Deep SDF Maps Online for Robot Navigation and Exploration", arXiv. [Paper]
DroNeRF: Real-time Multi-agent Drone Pose Optimization for Computing Neural Radiance Fields. [Paper]
"Enforcing safety for vision-based controllers via Control Barrier Functions and Neural Radiance Fields", arXiv. [Paper]
"Full-Body Visual Self-Modeling of Robot Morphologies", arXiv. [Paper] [Website]
"Efficient View Path Planning for Autonomous Implicit Reconstruction", arxiv. [Paper]
"Multi-Object Navigation with dynamically learned neural implicit representations", arxiv. [Paper] [Website

Citation

If you find this repository useful, please consider citing this list:

@misc{irshad2022implicitnerfroboticsresources,
    title = {Awesome Implicit NeRF Robotics - A curated list of resources on implicit neural representations and nerf relating to robotics},
    author = {Muhammad Zubair Irshad},
    journal = {GitHub repository},
    url = {https://github.com/zubair-irshad/Awesome-Implicit-NeRF-Robotics},
    DOI= {10.5281/ZENODO.7552613}
    year = {2022},
}