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Neural radiance field methods

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Keywords: nerf, neural, radiance, neural radiance, fields

Key facts. Neural radiance field methods: 1,274 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 19 Oct 2026). 521 of its 1,274 mapped papers (41%) cite “Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields” (2021, arXiv 2103.13415). 3 new papers 1 Oct–19 Oct.

What’s new

1 Oct – 19 Oct 2026

3 new since 1 Oct

  1. Directionally Factorized Illumination with Spherical Harmonic Rotation
  2. NeRFifyMesh: Optimizing Neural Radiance Fields from Textured Meshes for Robotics Scene Building
  3. VCURF: Virtual Camera-based Uncertainty of Radiance Fields

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields2021cited by 521 here
  2. Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields2021cited by 425 here
  3. PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields2021cited by 343 here
  4. TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fields2022cited by 323 here
  5. Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction2021cited by 307 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2021IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Renderingcited by 261 here
  2. 2021PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 343 here
  3. 2021MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereocited by 253 here
  4. 2021Depth-supervised NeRF: Fewer Views and Faster Training for Freecited by 294 here
  5. 2021Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstructioncited by 307 here
  6. 2022TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fieldscited by 323 here
  7. 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 275 here
17 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2021NeRF--: Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameterscited by 214 here
  2. 2021FastNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Rendering at 200FPScited by 201 here
  3. 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 521 here
  4. 2021KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPscited by 257 here
  5. 2021Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesiscited by 198 here
  6. 2021Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesiscited by 168 here
  7. 2021BARF: Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 244 here
  8. 2021UNISURF: Unifying Neural Implicit Surfaces and Radiance Fields for Multi-View Reconstructioncited by 142 here
  9. 2021NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstructioncited by 266 here
  10. 2021Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 425 here
  11. 2021NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Imagescited by 143 here
  12. 2021RegNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis from Sparse Inputscited by 189 here
  13. 2021Dense Depth Priors for Neural Radiance Fields from Sparse Input Viewscited by 132 here
  14. 2021Ref-NeRF: Structured View-Dependent Appearance for Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 192 here
  15. 2021Mega-NeRF: Scalable Construction of Large-Scale NeRFs for Virtual Fly-Throughscited by 132 here
  16. 2022Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesiscited by 259 here
  17. 2023Nerfstudio: A Modular Framework for Neural Radiance Field Developmentcited by 185 here

The 24 most cited of 1,761.

Browse

30 of 1,274, ranked 6–35

  1. 6Depth-supervised NeRF: Fewer Views and Faster Training for Free2021294
  2. 7Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis2022259
  3. 8KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs2021257
  4. 9MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo2021253
  5. 10BARF: Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields2021244
  6. 11NeRF--: Neural Radiance Fields Without Known Camera Parameters2021214
  7. 12FastNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Rendering at 200FPS2021201
  8. 13Baking Neural Radiance Fields for Real-Time View Synthesis2021198
  9. 14Ref-NeRF: Structured View-Dependent Appearance for Neural Radiance Fields2021192
  10. 15RegNeRF: Regularizing Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis from Sparse Inputs2021189
All 30
  1. 16Nerfstudio: A Modular Framework for Neural Radiance Field Development2023185
  2. 17Putting NeRF on a Diet: Semantically Consistent Few-Shot View Synthesis2021168
  3. 18NeRF in the Dark: High Dynamic Range View Synthesis from Noisy Raw Images2021143
  4. 19Dense Depth Priors for Neural Radiance Fields from Sparse Input Views2021132
  5. 20Mega-NeRF: Scalable Construction of Large-Scale NeRFs for Virtual Fly-Throughs2021132
  6. 21NeRFactor: Neural Factorization of Shape and Reflectance Under an Unknown Illumination2021131
  7. 22Zip-NeRF: Anti-Aliased Grid-Based Neural Radiance Fields2023130
  8. 23DONeRF: Towards Real-Time Rendering of Compact Neural Radiance Fields using Depth Oracle Networks2021120
  9. 24Editing Conditional Radiance Fields2021113
  10. 25In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representation2021106
  11. 26Learning Object-Compositional Neural Radiance Field for Editable Scene Rendering2021106
  12. 27MobileNeRF: Exploiting the Polygon Rasterization Pipeline for Efficient Neural Field Rendering on Mobile Architectures2022105
  13. 28CLIP-NeRF: Text-and-Image Driven Manipulation of Neural Radiance Fields2021105
  14. 29Point-NeRF: Point-based Neural Radiance Fields2022104
  15. 30NeX: Real-time View Synthesis with Neural Basis Expansion2021104
  16. 31HyperNeRF: A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fields2021102
  17. 32Self-Calibrating Neural Radiance Fields202199
  18. 33NerfingMVS: Guided Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields for Indoor Multi-view Stereo202195
  19. 34FreeNeRF: Improving Few-shot Neural Rendering with Free Frequency Regularization202391
  20. 35NeRF-Editing: Geometry Editing of Neural Radiance Fields202291