[toomuchtodo]

For anyone with domain knowledge, how applicable is Google's NeRF work here in comparison? Is there any overlap?

https://nerf-w.github.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071787

EDIT: @bitl: Tremendous, thanks for the reply. Would be amazing to be able to build these scenes just by walking around scanning a room with your mobile phone while it records video for processing the frames into scenes (especially considering mobile platforms with a depth sensor for enrichment of the collected data).

[nestorD]

By default NeRF does not produce a mesh (but one could use marching cubes as does Atlas) and it requires training a neural network for each scene whereas Atlas (as far as I understand it) uses pretrained network to process new scenes.

NeRF would probably produce a much better final result but the Atlas approach (no need to train something from scratch) is the only one that can hope to be run in real time which is vital for some application.

[bitL]

NeRF has a potential to make all those classical methods obsolete, though it requires many input images and I am not sure how it handles rolling shutter and other distortions.