Karen X Cheng: NeRF Handles Lighting and Mirrors Better Than Photogrammetry
Karen X Cheng · AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng · Nov 9, 2022 · at 17:29
Digital creator Karen X Cheng explains how NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) technology differs from traditional photogrammetry for 3D scanning scenes using standard phone cameras.
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“Nerf is a way to use any camera, like your phone, to scan a scene, and then all of a sudden you have this beautiful, three-D, like, scan of it, and the, what's interesting about it is it's different than photogrammetry because it can handle Like, light. It's basically constructing, like, a particle light field, and so when you look at things from different angles, the light changes, and so that's why it can handle mirrors, whereas, like, traditional photogrammetry can't.”
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