NeRF by B Mildenhall, et al

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This October we'll be having an event on the other side of the DC metro, in College Park Maryland. The University of Maryland will be hosting us for a discussion of one of the most important 3D graphics paper of the last couple of years: NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis by Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T. Barron, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Ren Ng. This 2020 paper united the fields of machine learning and computer graphics, and opened up a whole new field of computer graphics: Neural Rendering. I'll be presenting the paper for around 45 minutes (or doing my best to :) ), then taking question.

The schedule will be something like this:
6:00-6:45 - Arrive and socialize.
6:45-7:00 - Introduction and announcements
7:00-7:45 - The paper: NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
7:45-8:00 - Q&A
8:00-8:30 - Informal paper discussion and more socializing.

Venue: The event will be located in the IRB 4137 (fourth floor conference room) at the Brendan Iribe Center for computer graphics in the University of Maryland.

Parking: Lot H and the Regents Drive parking garage are the best spot for visitor parking. https://transportation.umd.edu/parking/maps/umd-campus-parking-map

Bike: tons of bike parking outside, easy to access the building coming from the Trolley Trail (either bike up Campus Drive or go through Paint Branch Park, then take the underpass under Baltimore Ave, which dumps you right at Iribe.)

Public transit: the College Park metro station is about 1mi away. It’s an easy, protected walk, or the 83/86 bus goes right from the metro station to Iribe.

If anyone fancies refreshments after the event I'll be walking over to The Hall a nearby restaurant and bar, for drinks and a snack, if you want to join.