Jeffrey Hu

[Hang Gao @hangg70]

ruilong has been one of the best folks in the world in speeding things up. when he releases something, it's gonna be both performant and easy-to-use.

[MrNeRF @janusch_patas]

[SIGGRAPH Asia '25] Editable Physically-based Reflections in Raytraced Gaussian Radiance Fields

Contributions:
• A reconstruction method for radiance fields, with distinct optimization for diffuse and specular components, using path tracing for the latter.

• An efficient and accurate training method that reconstructs the diffuse and specular components of the scene in a single representation.

• An efficient ray tracer for Gaussian primitives, fast enough to enable treatment of multiple bounces with minimal computational overhead.

[Jeffrey Hu @jefequien]

@ruilong_li This splat only has 2M Gaussians! SMERF used a 5x5 grid of submodels. I wonder if it can get close to SOTA with the multi-GPU feature with ~50M Gaussians.