ARF: Artistic Radiance Fields

Abstract

We present a method for transferring the artistic features of an arbitrary style image to a 3D scene. Previous methods that perform 3D stylization on point clouds or meshes are sensitive to geometric reconstruction errors for complex real-world scenes. Instead, we propose to stylize the more robust radiance field representation. We find that the commonly used Gram matrix-based loss tends to produce blurry results lacking in faithful style detail. We instead utilize a nearest neighbor-based loss that is highly effective at capturing style details while maintaining multi-view consistency. We also propose a novel deferred back-propagation method to enable optimization of memory-intensive radiance fields using style losses defined on full-resolution rendered images. Our evaluation demonstrates that, compared to baselines, our method transfers artistic appearance in a way that more closely resembles the style image. Please see our project webpage for video results and an open-source implementation: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/arf/.