Comment by darhodester
21 days ago
Gaussian splatting is not NeRF (neural radiance field), but it is a type of radiance field, and supports novel view synthesis. The difference is in an explicit point cloud representation (Gaussian splatting), versus a process that needs to be inferred by a neural network.
It's not a type of radiance field.
It’s literally the name of gaussian splatting. 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real Time Radiance Fields
https://repo-sam.inria.fr/fungraph/3d-gaussian-splatting/
Hmm if gaussian splatting is radiance field rendering then so is any 3D rendering, and what's the point of using the name? Though having looked up the name it seems like it isn't well defined enough to mean much anyway tbh.