Since their introduction in 2020, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have taken the computer vision community by storm. They provide a multi-view representation of a scene or object that is ideal for eXtended Reality (XR) applications and for creative endeavors such as virtual production, as well as change detection operations in geospatial analytics. The computational cost of these generative AI models is quite high, however, and the construction of cloud pipelines to generate NeRFs is neccesary to realize their potential in client applications. In this paper, we present pipelines on a high performance academic computing cluster and compare it with a pipeline implemented on Microsoft Azure. Along the way, we describe some uses of NeRFs in enabling novel user interaction scenarios.
@article{arxiv.2311.01659,
title = {Efficient Cloud Pipelines for Neural Radiance Fields},
author = {Derek Jacoby and Donglin Xu and Weder Ribas and Minyi Xu and Ting Liu and Vishwanath Jayaraman and Mengdi Wei and Emma De Blois and Yvonne Coady},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.01659},
year = {2023}
}