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Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) produce state-of-the-art view synthesis results. However, they are slow to render, requiring hundreds of network evaluations per pixel to approximate a volume rendering integral. Baking NeRFs into explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Benjamin Attal , Jia-Bin Huang , Michael Zollhoefer , Johannes Kopf , Changil Kim

This work investigates the use of Neural implicit representations, specifically Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), for geometrical queries and motion planning. We show that by adding the capacity to infer occupancy in a radius to a pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Michael Pantic , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lionel Ott

Since the introduction of NeRFs, considerable attention has been focused on improving their training and inference times, leading to the development of Fast-NeRFs models. Despite demonstrating impressive rendering speed and quality, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Francesco Di Sario , Riccardo Renzulli , Enzo Tartaglione , Marco Grangetto

Deep learning has excelled in image recognition tasks through neural networks inspired by the human brain. However, the necessity for large models to improve prediction accuracy introduces significant computational demands and extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that operate in an event-driven manner and employ binary spike representation have recently emerged as promising candidates for energy-efficient computing. However, a cost bottleneck arises in obtaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunpeng Yao , Man Wu , Zheng Chen , Renyuan Zhang

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling method to represent 3D objects and scenes for photo-realistic rendering. However, its implicit representation causes difficulty in manipulating the models like the explicit mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaxiang Tang , Xiaokang Chen , Jingbo Wang , Gang Zeng

We present a super-fast convergence approach to reconstructing the per-scene radiance field from a set of images that capture the scene with known poses. This task, which is often applied to novel view synthesis, is recently revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Cheng Sun , Min Sun , Hwann-Tzong Chen

In recent studies, the generalization of neural radiance fields for novel view synthesis task has been widely explored. However, existing methods are limited to objects and indoor scenes. In this work, we extend the generalization task to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Liang Song , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Zhenyang Fu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng

Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for understanding and modeling computation and representation by populations of neurons. Continuous-variable or "rate" model networks have been analyzed and applied extensively for these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-01-29 Brian DePasquale , Mark M. Churchland , L. F. Abbott

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically plausible framework for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. However, it is a challenge to train SNNs due to their non-differentiability, efficiently. Existing gradient approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Changqing Xu , Ziqiang Yang , Yi Liu , Xinfang Liao , Guiqi Mo , Hao Zeng , Yintang Yang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have recently emerged as a paradigm for 3D reconstruction from multiview satellite imagery. However, state-of-the-art NeRF methods are typically constrained to small scenes due to the memory footprint during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Camille Billouard , Dawa Derksen , Alexandre Constantin , Bruno Vallet

In this work we develop a generalizable and efficient Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) pipeline for high-fidelity free-viewpoint human body synthesis under settings with sparse camera views. Though existing NeRF-based methods can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Mingfei Chen , Jianfeng Zhang , Xiangyu Xu , Lijuan Liu , Yujun Cai , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Despite the rapid development of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), the necessity of dense covers largely prohibits its wider applications. While several recent works have attempted to address this issue, they either operate with sparse views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Dejia Xu , Yifan Jiang , Peihao Wang , Zhiwen Fan , Humphrey Shi , Zhangyang Wang

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based models have achieved remarkable success in 3D reconstruction and rendering tasks. However, during both training and inference, these models rely heavily on dense point sampling along rays from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ranxi Lin , Canming Yao , Jiayi Li , Weihang Liu , Xin Lou , Pingqiang Zhou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have unmatched fidelity on large, real-world scenes. A common approach for scaling NeRFs is to partition the scene into regions, each of which is assigned its own parameters. When implemented naively, such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Clinton Wang , Peter Hedman , Polina Golland , Jonathan T. Barron , Daniel Duckworth

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) represent a promising paradigm for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing due to their bio-plausible and spike-driven characteristics. However, the robustness of SNNs in complex adversarial environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shuai Wang , Malu Zhang , Yulin Jiang , Dehao Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Yu Liang , Yimeng Shan , Zijian Zhou , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), as an implicit 3D scene representation, lacks inherent ability to accommodate changes made to the initial static scene. If objects are reconfigured, it is difficult to update the NeRF to reflect the new state…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziqi Lu , Jianbo Ye , Xiaohan Fei , Xiaolong Li , Jiawei Mo , Ashwin Swaminathan , Stefano Soatto

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged with promising energy-efficient property, yet a substantial performance gap persists compared to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). This gap stems from at least two key limitations: first,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Feifan Zhou , Xiang Wei , Yang Liu , Qiang Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved great success in the task of synthesizing novel views that preserve the same resolution as the training views. However, it is challenging for NeRF to synthesize high-quality high-resolution novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xiang Feng , Yongbo He , Yubo Wang , Chengkai Wang , Zhenzhong Kuang , Jiajun Ding , Feiwei Qin , Jun Yu , Jianping Fan

Recent advances in neural rendering have enabled highly photorealistic 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Despite this progress, current state-of-the-art methods struggle to reconstruct high frequency detail, due to factors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sibi Catley-Chandar , Richard Shaw , Gregory Slabaugh , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero