[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
| [deleted]
| 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:
|
| 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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