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SCHEDULE 1

The Software

Semantic-NeRF is a scene-specific 3D semantic representation built upon Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), jointly encoding semantics with appearance and geometry. It can be efficiently learned with a small amount of in-place supervision and reach complete and achieves accurate 2D semantic labels in room-scale
scenes.  It is based on the techniques described in the following publication:

    • Shuaifeng Zhi, Tristan Laidlow, Stefan Leutenegger, Andrew J. Davison. In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021
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Acknowledgments

If you use the software, you should reference the following paper in any
publication:
 
    • Shuaifeng Zhi, Tristan Laidlow, Stefan Leutenegger, Andrew J. Davison. In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021