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by dexter89_kp3 1546 days ago
Self-driving car companies are already working on this. Check out: https://waymo.com/research/block-nerf/

NERF is a very active research area, and the progress from 2020 to now has been nothing sort of astonishing. In 5 years, I expect there to be fully generative NERF's in research i.e describe a scene, and a NN produces a full 3d scene that can you interact with.
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krapp 1546 days ago
Can it be done with Google's existing Street View data?
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asvitkine 1546 days ago
In the demo video, they mention that they used a lot of footage from self-driving cars to produce that.

One thing I noticed is there are no pedestrians and cars in those scenes. So they must do a lot of work to filter them out by combining a lot of footage. Therefore, it likely can't be used (as-is) on the street view dataset...

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yonz 1546 days ago
Yes!!!! I always get frustrated when ever it does the weird stretch thing as soon as you move around in street view. Just jump to the next frame of you have to.
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dexter89_kp3 1546 days ago
Can be done yes. Is it the best dataset to do what you describe, no.
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