NeRF Is Gonna Be The Future of Google Earth

As you can see, Earth sized NeRF is pretty much possible now. "Few more papers down the line", this can be some revolutionary technology.
BungeeNeRF: Progressive Neural Radiance Field for Extreme Multi-scale Scene Rendering
[Paper] arxiv.org/abs/2112.05504
[Project Page] city-super.github.io/citynerf/
[Code] github.com/city-super/BungeeNeRF
[GitHub Tutorial] github.com/bycloudai/BungeeNe...
Instant-NGP
[Paper] nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/...
[Project Page] nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/
[Code] github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp
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[@someoneontheweb4303]

Love your channel man! Keep doing what your doing

[@nefwaenre]

i can imagine rendering an entire dig site using this. i'm just so glad that NeRF has moved forward so much that we don't need photogrammetry much and do render a whole forgotten city with the least amount of invasion on the site. And we can zoom in on places without compromise as well. But that being said, because accuracy is an issue, i don't know how far this zoom can be depended upon. But i truly hope they bring this work into Project Amarna.

[@ARTificialDreams]

Cool! Great content!

[@zzzzzzz8473]

great video ! love seeing the developments of NeRFs . when talking training times please include on what gpu , otherwise its meaningless .

[@bloomp7999]

nice for movie travelling shot

[@Instant_Nerf]

I’m using nerf and I can’t help but see a parallel between it and what they were using in the movie Deja-vu with Denzel Washington.. and also minority report.. but also viewing memories with the pensive in Harry Potter

[@LeBeautiful]

No Nerfs at all, this is all upgrades! Thank you for these AI Tech videos 🤓🔥

[@KvVortex]

subscribed!!!!

[@space-time-somdeep]

Fascinating ❤
I have a question.. is it possible to improve this using SAR satellite data?

[@Veptis]

Google earth/maps isn't using photogrammetry for their 3D models. And they aren't doing the MS flight sim by synthesizing models.
Google is purchasing radar data. And there even is publicly avaible SAR(synthetic aperture radar) data of Norway for example. 30cm resolution as well.

[@jimj2683]

Waymo (owned by Google) already used Nerf on millions of photos from it's self-driving taxis. The result is essentially Google Street view in 3d that you can move around in just like a game.
It would be nice if Google made a competitor to Microsoft Flight SImulator, but with cars that you can drive, NPCs walking around and ships and planes. Essentially GTA on a global map (with teleportation ;). Maybe also use AI to rebuild stuff with materials and assets from Unreal Engine 5 (or 6....).

[@mozzarellasandwich]

maybe we could use generation techniques like diffusion and let the ai guess what is missing in the scene so it would be possible to produce the same results with less image input and less training time

[@jimj2683]

That is the real solution. In that case it will be possible to do the entire planet in detail with all the photos you can find on Google images.

[@mariokotlar303]

You mentioned at 4:13 that you "highly speculate Google Maps relies heavily on manual editing on those 3D rendering because there is no way a typical method for photogrammetry of this massive scale would be this accurate and it also looks like game texture". I work professionally with game development, texturing, photogrammetry, aerial footage, 3D modeling,... and I'm absolutely certain based on experience that they are not manually editing anything, as that would take too much time by a factor of a 1000 (if not much more). Instead, this can only be an in house photogrammetry based workflow solution tailored to this specific purpose.

[@oliva3d]

congratulations for the work, I would like to know if it is possible to chat in a file. obj or .fbx (3D mesh) to use in games. thanks

[@freewheelburning8834]

NGP makes cities look dystopian

[@zachary295]

Why does this guy not have millions of subscribers?!?!? 😢

[@JhonPitre]

Do you have some tutorial to learn do it ?

[@hakimehamdouchi7468]

The most impressive thing about Bungee nerf is that it has the properties of both gum and rubber.

[@PunxTV123]

this will be nice to put on microsoft flight simulator… because my country it looks like generated randomly with buildings even its only houses here…

[@jimj2683]

If it becomes good enough, you could drive cars around in cities! They could add NPCs also. GTA Earth!

[@VictorGallagherCarvings]

I wonder if this could be combined with fractal compression ?

[@lingyumo7445]

I have a file not found in project ?

[@AnAnimatorsWorld]

Thanks Corridor Crew 😏

[@SkateAwayTheDay]

Will the new version be called Google Erf?

[@owlroseproductions8876]

Great video! Small mistake though, Barcelona is in Catalonia...

[@kettenotter]

Kinda strange that they used nerf trained on Google maps.
Because the big advantage of nerf is that it can store complex lighting interaction. But there is no in the Google maps rendering and therefore in the end result.
Kinda if you would train gpt4 with cleverbot dialogue.

[@goldenhok]

Ayyy

[@wesleyvanos]

Let’s call it “Google NeRF”…

[@joel3399]

I LOVE NERF

[@jimj2683]

While all this AI stuff is needed, we still need more detailed raw data to actually make a digital earth twin that is accurate. Self-driving taxis will provide a lot of data, but there is no way around swarms of small drones that scan every nook and cranny of the planet.

[@DDRmails]

gonna be? i thought its already is, bcos of quality of old models

[@stuffedsomething1699]

Love the name, I'm pretty sure it was going to be named something else before a certain studio tried playing politics lol.

[@Ctrl_Alt_Sup]

Next step... capture all the atoms on the planet 🤣

[@philipp_]

Yoooo

[@Instant_Nerf]

Well it’s not better then what google earth provides now .. unless everything is rescanned

[@carrotman]

Not for major cities that Google has already modelled but for other areas, it has the potential to speed up the modeling process.

[@nilaier1430]

Welp, I guess Google Maps got NERFED

[@Askejm]

bruh

[@lewiswulski7378]

I thought this waas going to be a nerf gun video. So disappointed

[@marsandbars]

NeRF your expectations, man.

[@Samonie67]

It's NeRF or nothing

[@Detura]

“It’s nerf or nothing”, unfortunately this video chose nothing

[@nocnestudio7845]

For custumers NERF is new but for goverments NERF is old. Haha. They scan ouer all erath world.

[@omw9965]

I got so dizzy watching this video ...