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.
2020Instant Neural Graphics Primitives (Instant NGP)
A significant speed improvement on NeRFs, enabling near-instantaneous inference.
20223D Gaussian Splatting
An alternative Radiance Field approach using splatting for fast, high-quality rendering.
20233D Gaussian Ray Tracing
A Ray Tracing based approach to reconstructing a Radiance Field using 3D Gaussians (not Gaussian Splatting).
2024