Since you're here @author :) Do you mind giving a quick rundown on how this competes with the quality of zip-nerf?
Check out our explainer video for answers to this question and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhO8iUBpnCc
SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
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Re: SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
#62Very impressive demo.
Thank you!
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#63Any plans to release the models ?
The pretrained models are already available online! Check out the "demo" section of the website. Your browser is fetching the model when you run the demo.
Will the code be released, or an API endpoint? Otherwise it will be impossible for us to use it for anything.. since it's Google I assume it will just end up in a black hole like most of the research.. or five years later some AI researchers leave and finally create a startup.
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#64Hope this doesn't come as snarky, but does Google pressure researchers to do PR in their papers? This really is cool, but there is a lot of self-promotion in this paper and very little discussion of limitations (and the discussion of them is bookended by qualifications why they really aren't limitations).
It makes it harder for me to trust the paper if I feel like the paper is trying to persuade me of something rather than describe the complete findings.
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#65Im not sure why this demo runs so horribly in Firefox but not other browsers..anyone else having this?
Runs pretty well (20-100 fps depending on the scene) for me on both Firefox 120.1.1 on Android 14 (Pixel 7; smartphone preset) and Firefox 120.0.1 on Fedora 39 (R7 5800, 64 GB memory, RX 6600 XT; 1440p; desktop preset).
It seems that for some reason, my firefox is stuck in software compositor. I am getting:
WebRender initialization failed Blocklisted; failure code RcANGLE(no compositor device for EGLDisplay)(Create)_FIRST 3D11_COMPOSITING runtime failed Failed to acquire a D3D11 device Blocklisted; failure code FEATURE_FAILURE_D3D11_DEVICE2
I'm running a 3060
Re: SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
#66I had read about a competing technology that was suggesting NeRF's were a dead end
but perhaps that was biased?
Re: SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
#67Hope this doesn't come as snarky, but does Google pressure researchers to do PR in their papers? This really is cool, but there is a lot of self-promotion in this paper and very little discussion of limitations (and the discussion of them is bookended by qualifications why they really aren't limitations). It makes it harder for me to trust the paper if I feel like the paper is trying to persuade me of something rathe…
People are not allowed to be proud of their work anymore?
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#68What kind of modes does the viewer cycle through when I press the space key?
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#69How long until you can stitch Street View into a seamless streaming NeRF of every street in the world? I hope that's the goal you're working towards!
I read another article talking about what waymo was working on and this looks oddly similar... My understanding is that the goal is to use this to reconstruct 3d models of street view images in real time.
Re: SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields
#70Hope this doesn't come as snarky, but does Google pressure researchers to do PR in their papers? This really is cool, but there is a lot of self-promotion in this paper and very little discussion of limitations (and the discussion of them is bookended by qualifications why they really aren't limitations). It makes it harder for me to trust the paper if I feel like the paper is trying to persuade me of something rathe…
People are not allowed to be proud of their work anymore?
Oh absolutely. I guess I just got the feeling reading this that there was more than the standard pride here and that there was professional PR going on. If no one else is getting that vibe I'm okay to accept it's just me.