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by duckworthd 2141 days ago
1) My bread and butter for the last 10 years has been machine learning. When all you have is a hammer...

2) We don't extract surface contours, we learn a volumetric radiance field! To oversimplify, we learn a (smooth) function that, given a position in space, produces the differential opacity and color at that space. To render an image from a camera viewpoint, we approximately integrate along rays emitted from each pixel of the camera.

Check out NeRF and our paper to learn more about this representation!