Nerfstudio has released their first update of the month with V1.1. Most of the features had been slowly added into the platform, but this solidifies them into an official release.

Additional reconstruction pipeline support has been added, in the form of RealityCapture and Metashape Plys. While Metashape still requires a paid subscription, RealityCapture has moved to a free license at the end of last month, so long as you stay under the $1M threshold.

Another really interesting addition is the implementation of AbsGS into Splatfacto, which seems to give a slight bump to reconstruction fidelity, while also substantially drops the number of gaussians used.

Please see below for the full changelog of the updates. In order to update your Nerfstudio version, please take a look at their Github.

• Refactor ScenePointerCallbacks for viser compatibility by @chungmin99 in #3036

• Only load+undistort splatfacto images when they're used by @brentyi in #3043

• New Google Drive link for poster dataset by @ginazhouhuiwu in #3045

• Added SIGNeRF to Nerfstudio methods by @JDihlmann in #3053

• Make colmapDataParser compatible with 360_v2 dataset format by @Jing1Ling in #2860

• Fix config loading for Eyeful Tower dataset by @hardhat5 in #3054

• feat(ci): migrate to uv in CI by @SauravMaheshkar in #3038

• Fix custom elements nested under @Property by @kerrj in #3066

• fix exporter.py for FullImageDataManager and RandomCamerasDataManager by @dberga in #3065

• Camera pose optimization for Splatfacto by @oseiskar in #2891

• write eval combined images for diagnostics by @jb-ye in #3070

• Fixed Unexpectedly huge RAM consumption of parallel datamanager by @hyperzy in #3060

• Add pointcloud loading for blender parser by @gchhablani in #2902

• shift principle points by .5 in undistortion by @kerrj in #3071

• Fix call to detect ODM reconstruction file by @codeprimate in #3018

• updates to apply_pca_colormap by @kerrj in #3086

• Changes for trainer.py to support the Gradio webui by @KevinXu02 in #3046

• Allow alpha transparency training for blender datasets input by @jb-ye in #3088

• Hloc fix for image_ids (camera per image) by @dberga in #3081

• Adding lock for Viser Element callbacks by @Satvik1701 in #3067

• Adding cropping for gaussian splat exports by @THE-COB in #3105

• GaussianSplats export: allow uint8 in ply by @mathijshenquet in #3111

• Use AbsGrad to get better results with less gaussians by @jb-ye in #3113

• Fix bug in pixel sampler by @carlinds in #3103

• metashape_utils: work with camera groups by @f-dy in #2626

• Fix #3064 and some minor changes by @jb-ye in #3121

• Support splatfacto training for metashape exports by @jb-ye in #3122

• fix nerfstudio collate function by @hturki in #2965

• Add a pointcloud export from polycam to process-data by @kerrj in #3124

• BioNeRF by @Leandropassosjr in #3125

• Fixing typos and symbols in bionerf.md by @Leandropassosjr in #3126

• Add kwargs handling for patchpixelsampler patch size by @chungmin99 in #2622

• Make RealityCapture csv/ply exports work! by @jb-ye in #3131

• adding the link for the paper page and fixing image paths by @Leandropassosjr in #3132

• Fix edge case of depth colormap by @Feez2403 in #3139

• Clarify flag name in docs/nerfology/methods/splat.md by @EliasWatson in #3140

• bump version to 1.1.0 by @jb-ye in #3143