# Neural radiance field methods

Area: [3D reconstruction and neural rendering](https://mlsanity.com/recon3d/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/recon3d/neural-radiance-field-methods/

## 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).
- 425 of its 1,274 mapped papers (33%) cite “Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields” (2021, arXiv 2111.12077).
- 3 new papers 1 Oct–19 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13415/) (2021), cited by 521 papers here
- [Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12077/) (2021), cited by 425 papers here
- [PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14024/) (2021), cited by 343 papers here
- [TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09517/) (2022), cited by 323 papers here
- [Direct Voxel Grid Optimization: Super-fast Convergence for Radiance Fields Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11215/) (2021), cited by 307 papers here
- [Depth-supervised NeRF: Fewer Views and Faster Training for Free](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.02791/) (2021), cited by 294 papers here
- [Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05263/) (2022), cited by 259 papers here
- [KiloNeRF: Speeding up Neural Radiance Fields with Thousands of Tiny MLPs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13744/) (2021), cited by 257 papers here
- [MVSNeRF: Fast Generalizable Radiance Field Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.15595/) (2021), cited by 253 papers here
- [BARF: Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.06405/) (2021), cited by 244 papers here

## New (1 Oct–19 Oct)

- [Directionally Factorized Illumination with Spherical Harmonic Rotation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.24811/) (2026-10-17)
- [NeRFifyMesh: Optimizing Neural Radiance Fields from Textured Meshes for Robotics Scene Building](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.10387/) (2026-10-07)
- [VCURF: Virtual Camera-based Uncertainty of Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.04076/) (2026-10-02)