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Implicit Neural Light Spheres lets you turn panoramic captures into dynamic wide FOV renders (with real-time rendering!). Instead of generating panoramas with image stitching, we use neural light spheres to jointly estimate the camera path and a high-resolution scene reconstruction to produce novel wide field-of-view projections of the environment.... show more

Felix Heide

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