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taichi-ngp-renderer

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An Instants-NGP renderer that has been implemented using Taichi

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# Taichi NGP Renderer

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##### Update 2023-02-09: Support real scenes! Try with `python taichi_ngp.py --gui --scene garden`

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This is a [Instant-NGP](https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp) renderer implemented using [Taichi](https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi), written entirely in Python. **No CUDA!** This repository only implemented the rendering part of the NGP but is more simple and has a lesser amount of code compared to the original (Instant-NGP and [tiny-cuda-nn](https://github.com/NVlabs/tiny-cuda-nn)).

## Installation

Clone this repository and install the required package:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Linyou/taichi-ngp-renderer.git
python -m pip install -r requirement.txt
```

## Description

This repository only implemented the forward part of the **Instant-NGP**, which include:

- Rays intersection with bounding box: `ray_intersect()`
- Ray marching strategic: `raymarching_test_kernel()`
- Spherical harmonics encoding for ray direction: `dir_encode()`
- Hash table encoding for 3d coordinate: `hash_encode()`
- **Fully Fused MLP** using shared memory: `sigma_layer()`, `rgb_layer()`
- Volume rendering: `composite_test()`

However, there are some differences compared to the original:

###### Missing function

- Taichi is currently missing the `frexp()` method, so I have to use a hard-coded scale of 0.5. I will update the code once **Taichi** supports this function.

###### Fully Fused MLP

- Instead of having a single kernel like **tiny-cuda-nn**, this repo use separated kernel `sigma_layer()` and `rgb_layer()` because the shared memory size that **Taichi** currently allow is `48KB` as issue [#6385](https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi/issues/6385) points out, it could be improved in the future.
- In the **tiny-cuda-nn**, they use TensorCore for `float16` multiplication, which is not an accessible feature for Taichi, so I directly convert all the data to `ti.float16` to speed up the computation.

## GUI

This code supports real-time rendering GUI interactions with less than 1GB VRAM. Here are the functionality that the GUI offers:

- **Camera:**
  - Keyboard and mouse control
  - DoF
- **Rendering:**
  - The number of samples for each ray
  - Transparency threshold (Stop ray marching)
  - Show depth
- **Export:**
  - Snapshot
  - Video recording (Required [ffmpeg](https://docs.taichi-lang.org/docs/export_results#install-ffmpeg-on-windows))

> the GUI is running up to 66 fps on a 3090 GPU at 800 $\times$ 800 resolution (default pose).

Run `python taichi_ngp.py --gui --scene lego` to start the GUI. This repository provided eight pre-trained NeRF synthesis scenes: _Lego, Ship, Mic, Materials, Hotdog, Ficus, Drums, Chair_

Running `python taichi_ngp.py --gui --scene <name>` will automatically download pre-trained model `<name>` in the `./npy_file` folder. Please check out the argument parameters in `taichi_ngp.py` for more options.

## Custom scene

You can train a new scene with [ngp_pl](https://github.com/kwea123/ngp_pl) and save the pytorch model to numpy using `np.save()`. After that, use the `--model_path` argument to specify the model file.

## Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the incredible projects that open-source to the community, including:

- [Instant-NGP](https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp)
- [tiny-cuda-nn](https://github.com/NVlabs/tiny-cuda-nn)
- [ngp_pl](https://github.com/kwea123/ngp_pl)
- [Taichi](https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi)

## Todo

- [x] Support Vulkan backend
- [x] Support real scenes
- [ ] Refactor to separate modules

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