Neural Volume Rendering: NeRF And Beyond

TL;DR

This paper provides an annotated bibliography of neural volume rendering research, highlighting the rapid development of the field following the influential NeRF paper in 2020.

Contribution

It compiles and annotates key papers in neural volume rendering, serving as a comprehensive resource for researchers interested in the evolution of NeRF and related methods.

Findings

Rapid growth of neural volume rendering research post-2020

Compilation of influential papers and methods in the field

Resource for understanding developments beyond NeRF

Abstract

Besides the COVID-19 pandemic and political upheaval in the US, 2020 was also the year in which neural volume rendering exploded onto the scene, triggered by the impressive NeRF paper by Mildenhall et al. (2020). Both of us have tried to capture this excitement, Frank on a blog post (Dellaert, 2020) and Yen-Chen in a Github collection (Yen-Chen, 2020). This note is an annotated bibliography of the relevant papers, and we posted the associated bibtex file on the repository.