6DoF Pose estimation has been gaining increased importance in vision for over a decade, however it does not yet meet the reliability and accuracy standards for mass deployment in industrial robotics. To this effect, we present the Industrial Plenoptic Dataset (IPD): the first dataset for the co-evaluation of cameras, HDR, and algorithms targeted at reliable, high-accuracy industrial automation. Specifically, we capture 2,300 physical scenes of 20 industrial parts covering a 1m × 1m × 0.5m working volume, resulting in over 100,000 distinct object views. Each scene is captured with 13 well-calibrated multi-modal cameras including polarization and high-resolution structured light. In terms of lighting, we capture each scene at 4 exposures and in 3 challenging lighting conditions ranging from 100 lux to 100,000 lux. We also present, validate, and analyze robot consistency, an evaluation method targeted at scalable, high accuracy evaluation. We hope that vision systems that succeed on this dataset will have direct industry impact. The dataset and evaluation code are available at https://github.com/intrinsic-ai/ipd.

We present an image formation model and optimization procedure that combines the advantages of neural radiance fields and structured light imaging. Existing depth-supervised neural models rely on depth sensors to accurately capture the scene’s geometry. However, the depth maps recovered by these sensors can be prone to error, or even fail outright. Instead of depending on the fidelity of processed depth maps from a structured light system, a more principled approach is to explicitly model the raw structured light images themselves. Our proposed approach enables the estimation of high-fidelity depth maps, including for objects with complex material properties (e.g., partially-transparent surfaces). Besides computing depth, the raw structured light images also confer other useful radiometric cues, which enable predicting surface normals and decomposing scene appearance in terms of a direct, indirect, and ambient component. We evaluate our framework quantitatively and qualitatively on a range of real and synthetic scenes, and decompose scenes into their constituent components for novel views.