#20 AI Series: DeepMind - D. Duckworth

Join our free BLISS Speaker Series Summer 2025!

We are excited to feature Daniel Duckworth, Senior Research Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, who will discuss "Radiance Fields are Dead (and why that’s OK)", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.
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Who is this event for?
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.

Abstract: Our innate ability to reconstruct the 3D world around us from our eyes alone is a fundamental part of human perception. For computers, however, this task remained a significant challenge — until the advent of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Upon their introduction, NeRFs marked a paradigm shift in the field of novel view synthesis, demonstrating huge improvements in visual realism and geometric accuracy over prior works. The subsequent proliferation of NeRF variants has only expanded their capabilities, unlocking larger scenes, achieving even higher visual fidelity, and accelerating both training and inference. Nevertheless, NeRF is no longer the tool of choice for 3D reconstruction. Why? Join a researcher from the front lines as we explore NeRF’s foundations, dissect its strengths and weaknesses, see how the field has evolved, and explore the future of novel view synthesis.

We are BLISS e.V., the AI organization in Berlin that connects like-minded individuals who share great interest and passion for the field of machine learning. This summer 2025, we will host an exciting speaker series on site in Berlin, featuring excellent researchers from Merantix Momentum, Meta AI, Inria, Microsoft AI4Science, Google DeepMind, and University of Oxford.
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