The features keep rolling in for Nerfstudio. Just two days ago, the addition of Bilateral Guided Radiance Fields was merged into the codebase, and already the Berkeley team has introduced another exciting update to gsplat.

For every 500K Gaussians, the compression reduces the file size to about 8MB—a significant improvement from the file sizes that exceeded a gigabyte less than a year ago. Even more impressively, the fidelity remains nearly unchanged post-compression.

Ironically, this method was in part authored by the creator of SplatViz, Florian Barthel, in addition to his colleague, Wieland Morgenstern who originally conceived of the method.

Nerfstudio continues to be commercially permissive with an Apache 2.0 license. If you've been thinking about contributing, now is the time. You can find Nerfstudio's GitHub repository here and the original project page for Self Organizing Gaussians.