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arxiv: 2605.18054 · v1 · pith:XO5ZDRVRnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 📡 eess.IV · cs.CV· cs.MM

CATRF: Codec-Adaptive TriPlane Radiance Fields for Volumetric Content Delivery

Tung-I Chen , Lingdong Wang , Subhransu Maji , Ramesh K. Sitaraman This is my paper

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keywords volumetric compressionradiance fieldstriplane representationcodec-adaptive trainingrate-distortion optimizationstandard video codecsfree-viewpoint videostraight-through estimator
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The pith

Training triplane radiance fields with real codec roundtrips lets volumetric content reach better rate-distortion performance than codec-agnostic baselines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents CATRF as a compression framework that folds standard codecs such as HEVC and AV1 directly into the training of plane-factorized radiance fields. Feature planes are quantized, packed into codec-friendly canvases, encoded and decoded, then unpacked and dequantized before rendering; a straight-through estimator lets gradients flow through the non-differentiable codec so the features can adapt to the actual client-side distortions. The resulting representations are tested on both static and dynamic volumetric benchmarks and compared against codec-agnostic training and against recent compressed 3D Gaussian splatting methods. A sympathetic reader cares because the method keeps the representation compatible with widely deployed video codecs while still improving efficiency and decoding speed, which matters for practical free-viewpoint video delivery.

Core claim

CATRF trains triplane radiance fields by quantizing and packing the 2D feature planes into canvases, running a full roundtrip through a chosen standard codec, unpacking the decoded features, and using a straight-through estimator to back-propagate through the entire non-differentiable pipeline, so that the learned features become resilient to the specific quantization and coding artifacts that the target codec will introduce at inference time.

What carries the argument

Codec-in-the-loop training with straight-through estimator, which simulates the complete quantization-packing-encoding-decoding-unpacking pipeline on the triplane features so they can adapt to real codec distortions without any learned codec parameters.

If this is right

  • CATRF achieves a better rate-distortion trade-off than both codec-agnostic and learned-codec baselines on static and dynamic volumetric benchmarks.
  • The method also outperforms recent compressed 3D Gaussian splatting approaches in both compression efficiency and decoding speed.
  • The approach supplies a practical route to low-bitrate, compression-resilient volumetric representations suitable for free-viewpoint video streaming.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same adaptation strategy could be applied to other plane-based or hybrid implicit representations without changing the codec pipeline.
  • Client-side decoding speed gains may enable higher frame-rate or multi-user free-viewpoint experiences on consumer hardware.
  • Because the method uses only standard codecs, it can be deployed immediately on existing video infrastructure while still benefiting from neural representations.

Load-bearing premise

The straight-through estimator lets the radiance-field features adapt to the non-differentiable distortions of standard codecs without training instability or unmodeled quantization artifacts dominating final quality.

What would settle it

Running the same static and dynamic benchmarks and finding that CATRF's rate-distortion curves lie below or on top of the codec-agnostic baselines at all operating points would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.18054 by Lingdong Wang, Ramesh K. Sitaraman, Subhransu Maji, Tung-I Chen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of codec-integrated NeRF compression [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the encode–decode codec round trip. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison with baselines on the NeRF Synthetic (left) and Tanks and Temples (right) benchmarks. On NeRF Synthetic, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparisons on Chair from NeRF Synthetic and Family from Tanks and Temples. Compared with recent learned￾codec and 3DGS compression baselines, CATRF-JPEG offers a flexible operating range: it can achieve substantially lower bitrate with only modest quality loss, or deliver sharper details and fewer artifacts at a slightly higher rate. weights ϕ, and any parameters required to retrieve (P, D). 3… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Rate-distortion (RD) curves. We compare CATRF with codec-agnostic TeTriRF [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparisons on the Neural 3D Video benchmark. At high bitrate, both CA and SCL methods produce comparable [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of appearance-plane canvases under dif [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Training diagnostics of CATRF with STE as the gradient [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of visualized appearance planes packed with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: More qualitative comparisons of NeRF Synthetic and Tanks and Temples benchmarks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: More qualitative comparisons of Neural 3D Video and NHR benchmarks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_11.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Volumetric media promises next-generation content delivery applications, but its bandwidth demand remains a key bottleneck. Implicit and hybrid volumetric representations reduce model sizes, yet still require careful coding to reach 2D video-like bitrates. We present CATRF, a standard-codec-in-the-loop compression framework for plane-factorized radiance fields. During training, we quantize and pack 2D feature planes into codec-friendly canvases, run a standard codec roundtrip (JPEG/VP9/HEVC/AV1), then unpack and dequantize the decoded features before volume rendering. We use a straight-through estimator (STE) to insert the non-differentiable, standard codec pipeline into the training loop, allowing radiance-field features to adapt directly to the real, client-side codec distortions without introducing any learned codec parameters. On both static and dynamic benchmarks, CATRF consistently achieves a better rate-distortion trade-off over codec-agnostic and learned-codec-in-the-loop baselines, and also outperforms recent compressed 3DGS methods in both compression efficiency and decoding speed. These results highlight a practical path toward low-bitrate, compression-resilient volumetric representations for free-viewpoint video streaming.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces CATRF, a standard-codec-in-the-loop compression method for triplane radiance fields. Feature planes are quantized and packed into codec-friendly canvases, passed through a non-differentiable roundtrip of JPEG/VP9/HEVC/AV1, unpacked and dequantized, then used for volume rendering. A straight-through estimator enables end-to-end training so that the radiance-field features adapt to the actual client-side codec distortions. The authors report consistent rate-distortion gains over codec-agnostic and learned-codec baselines on both static and dynamic benchmarks, plus better compression efficiency and decoding speed than recent compressed 3DGS approaches.

Significance. If the adaptation mechanism proves robust, the work provides a practical route to low-bitrate volumetric delivery that exploits mature, hardware-supported codecs rather than requiring learned compression modules. The reported gains in rate-distortion trade-off and decoding speed on both static and dynamic scenes would be relevant for free-viewpoint video streaming applications.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (Method), around the STE insertion: the manuscript does not supply sufficient detail on the precise quantization thresholds, canvas packing layout, or the exact STE implementation (e.g., whether gradient clipping or scaling is applied). These choices directly affect whether the identity-gradient approximation remains informative for the highly nonlinear rate-distortion behavior of HEVC/AV1; without them the central claim that features adapt to real codec distortions cannot be fully evaluated.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments), rate-distortion curves and tables: the paper should include an ablation that trains the same triplanes codec-agnostically and then applies the identical quantization/packing/codec roundtrip at test time. If the reported gains largely disappear in this setting, the adaptation benefit attributed to STE training would be undermined.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3 (canvas packing illustration): the diagram would benefit from explicit annotation of the quantization step sizes and the exact spatial arrangement used for each codec.
  2. [Related Work] Related-work section: the comparison to compressed 3DGS methods should cite the specific decoding-time measurements (e.g., FPS on the same hardware) to support the speed claim.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments highlight important aspects of reproducibility and experimental validation. We address each point below and have updated the manuscript to incorporate the suggested clarifications and additional analysis.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (Method), around the STE insertion: the manuscript does not supply sufficient detail on the precise quantization thresholds, canvas packing layout, or the exact STE implementation (e.g., whether gradient clipping or scaling is applied). These choices directly affect whether the identity-gradient approximation remains informative for the highly nonlinear rate-distortion behavior of HEVC/AV1; without them the central claim that features adapt to real codec distortions cannot be fully evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that more precise implementation details are required for full reproducibility and to allow readers to assess the STE approximation under nonlinear codecs. In the revised manuscript we have expanded §3 with the following: uniform quantization uses a fixed step size of 1/255 on normalized feature values in [0,1]; the canvas packing layout tiles the three feature planes (each 256×256×C) into a single 512×768 canvas with explicit row/column offsets and zero-padding to codec-friendly dimensions; the STE employs the identity function in the forward pass with straight-through gradient (no clipping or scaling applied, as empirical tests showed stable convergence). We also add a short discussion of why the identity approximation remains informative despite codec nonlinearity, supported by gradient-norm statistics collected during training. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments), rate-distortion curves and tables: the paper should include an ablation that trains the same triplanes codec-agnostically and then applies the identical quantization/packing/codec roundtrip at test time. If the reported gains largely disappear in this setting, the adaptation benefit attributed to STE training would be undermined.

    Authors: We appreciate this suggestion for isolating the contribution of in-loop adaptation. We have added the requested ablation to §4: the identical triplane architecture is trained without any codec in the loop (codec-agnostic baseline) and then subjected to the exact same quantization, canvas packing, and codec roundtrip (JPEG/VP9/HEVC/AV1) at test time. The new results, presented in an additional row of Table 2 and as dashed curves in Figure 4, show a consistent drop in rate-distortion performance relative to CATRF (average BD-rate increase of 18–27 % across codecs). This confirms that the observed gains are attributable to feature adaptation during STE training rather than to the quantization/packing procedure alone. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents CATRF as an empirical compression framework that inserts a standard codec roundtrip into the training loop via straight-through estimator. All reported gains are obtained from direct comparisons against external codec-agnostic baselines, learned-codec baselines, and compressed 3DGS methods on static and dynamic benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown to reduce the claimed rate-distortion improvements to quantities defined on the same test data or to prior results by the same authors. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond the standard assumptions of radiance-field training and the use of a straight-through estimator.

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