[HN Gopher] Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
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       Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
        
       Author : kennethfriedman
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2022-10-05 15:02 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (docs.nerf.studio)
 (TXT) w3m dump (docs.nerf.studio)
        
       | coding123 wrote:
       | Actually kind of excited by these techs, it would be fun to play
       | CoD in a realistic downtown SF or LA.
        
       | jagger27 wrote:
       | For those curious like me, NeRFs are Neural Radiance Fields:
       | https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf
        
         | sroussey wrote:
         | Funny, I just discovered that a few days ago while listening to
         | the engineers talk at Tesla's AI Day. They mentioned it (I
         | think for their occupancy stuff), I didn't know what it was and
         | found the same site.
        
       | gorkish wrote:
       | I am extremely excited for this technology to mature to a point
       | where realtime novel view synthesis becomes possible. The idea of
       | being able to take a few photographs and be able to recreate an
       | appreciably decent 6DOF viewing experience is a very powerful
       | enabling technology.
       | 
       | Nerfstudio looks like something that is finally accessible enough
       | that I will be able to start experimenting without having to
       | spend enormous amounts of effort on tooling. Can't wait to check
       | it out! It looks like some of the processing pipelines might be a
       | good fit for merging with WebODM to make it even more friendly to
       | work with.
        
       | pelorat wrote:
       | If you're going to make an app like this, at least use electron
       | or something similar and create an integrated package instead of
       | relying on a python UI over a bunch of command line tools.
       | 
       | Also how does it compare to Nvidia Instant Nerf (performance
       | etc)?
        
         | naikrovek wrote:
         | electron is a literal ecological disaster because of how much
         | CPU and RAM JavaScript runtimes use. How many chunks of coal
         | have been burned just to keep Electron going when a faster
         | language would have used less CPU time for the millions of
         | users who use Electron apps?
        
           | victorbstan wrote:
           | Chill bro
        
             | naikrovek wrote:
             | oh sorry I didn't realize you were so super cool and used
             | the word "bro" thanks for helping me maintain bro
        
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       | latchkey wrote:
       | Good demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSFsugarWzk
        
       | ptcrash wrote:
       | I didn't know what NeRFs were so I had to look it up. This
       | article seems like a good introduction for anyone else that's out
       | of the loop like me: https://www.matthewtancik.com/nerf
        
       | averylamp wrote:
       | Just saw this on twitter and the results look pretty awesome
       | https://twitter.com/akanazawa/status/1577686321119645696?s=2...
        
       | dougmwne wrote:
       | Speaking of NeRFs, here's a Google Imagen powered text to NeRF
       | model:
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       | https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/gallery.html
        
       | bohadi wrote:
       | NeRF applied to Maps soon
       | 
       | https://twitter.com/jeffdean/status/1524612819160735745?lang...
       | 
       | another paper toward Earth sized multi scale models (5 minutes)
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9ia2fsiwY
        
       | jasha123 wrote:
       | GTC 2022 Re-imagining Robot Autonomy with Neural Environment
       | Representations, with Q&A from EMEA region [A41181b]
       | https://register.nvidia.com/flow/nvidia/gtcfall2022/attendee...
        
       | bashinator wrote:
       | It would be helpful if that site didn't just assume all visitors
       | already know what a NeRF is.
        
         | mshockwave wrote:
         | exactly, can somebody ELI5 what is NeRF in this context?
        
           | fudged71 wrote:
           | Neural Photogrammetry. "Novel View Synthesis"
        
           | karxxm wrote:
           | A NeRF is a deep neural network architecture, that takes a
           | set of photos from multiple camera positions of a given scene
           | as an input and outputs a volume representation of this
           | scene. Volumes allow for many common volume rendering
           | interactions like repositioning the camera from any angle or
           | even lighting effects.
        
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