Meta-Continual Learning of Neural Fields
Seungyoon Woo Junhyeog Yun Gunhee Kim
Neural Fields (NF) have gained prominence as a versatile framework for complex data representation. This work unveils a new problem setting termed Meta-Continual Learning of Neural Fields (MCL-NF) and introduces a novel strategy that employs a modular architecture combined with optimization-based meta-learning. Focused on overcoming the limitations of existing methods for continual learning of neural fields, such as catastrophic forgetting and slow convergence, our strategy achieves high-quality reconstruction with significantly improved learning speed. We further introduce Fisher Information Maximization loss for neural radiance fields (FIM-NeRF), which maximizes information gains at the sample level to enhance learning generalization, with proved convergence guarantee and generalization bound. We perform extensive evaluations across image, audio, video reconstruction, and view synthesis tasks on six diverse datasets, demonstrating our method’s superiority in reconstruction quality and speed over existing MCL and CL-NF approaches. Notably, our approach attains rapid adaptation of neural fields for city-scale NeRF rendering with reduced parameter requirement.
Meta-Learning; Continual Learning; 3D Vision; Neural Radiance Fields;
This work is the first to combine meta-learning and continual learning for neural fields. Our approach improves performance with few adaptation steps for not only image, audio, video reconstruction but also city-scale NeRF rendering.