Timeline of Radiance Fields.

Research has exploded over the past five years.

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)

A breakthrough method using deep neural networks to reconstruct lifelike 3D from standard 2D images or video.

2020

Instant Neural Graphics Primitives (Instant NGP)

A significant speed improvement on NeRFs, enabling near-instantaneous inference.

2022

Zip-NeRF

The current state of the art for NeRF fidelity.

2023

3D Gaussian Splatting

An alternative Radiance Field approach using splatting for fast, high-quality rendering.

2023

3D Gaussian Ray Tracing

A Ray Tracing based approach to reconstructing a Radiance Field using 3D Gaussians (not Gaussian Splatting).

2024