Building City-Scale Neural Radiance Fields for Autonomous Driving
, Staff ML Software Engineer, Wayve
We'll share our experience with building a pipeline for constructing neural radiance fields (NeRFs) at a city scale. Recent advancements in neural rendering techniques, such as NeRFs, enable the creation of data-driven simulations for robot perception and control. We use NeRFs to build interactive environments to test and train autonomous agents that control vehicles deployed on real roads. Join us to hear more about the challenges involved in scaling this technique to be able to create city-scale reconstructions: (1) splitting the problem into parallelizable sub-tasks, (2) automating quality control, and (3) overcoming the shortcomings of using NeRFs to simulate complicated driving scenarios.