Block-NeRF Artificial Intelligence San Francisco
Waymo researchers have developed Block-NeRF, which is essentially a variant of Neural Radiance Fields that can represent large-scale environments. This AI-powered tool was created to demonstrate that when scaling NeRF to render city-scale scenes spanning multiple blocks, it’s crucial decompose the scene into individually trained NeRFs. In other words, you’re able to decouple rendering time from scene size, thus enabling rendering to scale to arbitrarily large environments, as well as allowing per-block updates of the environment.



The team had to adopt several architectural changes to make NeRF robust to data captured over months under different environmental conditions. This included adding appearance embeddings, learning pose refinement, and controlling exposure to each individual NeRF, before introducing a procedure for aligning appearance between adjacent NeRFs so that they can be seamlessly combined.

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We build a grid of Block-NeRFs from 2.8 million images to create the largest neural scene representation to date, capable of rendering an entire neighborhood of San Francisco,” said the researchers.

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