NeRF and radiance fields: research map
456 accepted papers on NeRF and radiance fields in 3D vision, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 2 clusters and 7 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2023.
Within 3D vision, its share shrank from 14.9% in 2023–24 to 3.3% in 2025–26 (266 → 90 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).
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Approaches and key papers
radiance fields · fields nerf · nerfs · 273 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Sparse-input NeRF regularization (106 papers)
Improves NeRF view synthesis with geometry, depth and ray priors, and in-the-wild robustness. - Dynamic and editable NeRF (88 papers)
Extends radiance fields to dynamic scenes, editing, large scenes and faster real-time rendering. - Single-view and streaming radiance fields (49 papers)
Builds conditioned, recolorable or streaming radiance fields from limited or sequential observations. - NeRF for scene decomposition and understanding (30 papers)
Uses radiance fields for geometry decomposition, object selection, segmentation and detection.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fields (CVPR 2022 · 1,901 citations)
- pixelNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields From One or Few Images (CVPR 2021 · 1,530 citations)
- ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors (CVPR 2024 · 185 citations)
- Bayes' Rays: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Radiance Fields (CVPR 2024 · 58 citations)
rendering · field · synthesis · 183 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Inverse rendering with neural fields (110 papers)
Recovers geometry, reflectance and lighting from multi-view images for relighting and view synthesis. - Few-shot neural rendering architectures (53 papers)
Designs light-field, attention-based and reposable representations for view synthesis from few views. - 3D-aware generative radiance fields (20 papers)
Trains GAN-based radiance fields to generate 3D-consistent images.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes As Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields (CVPR 2021 · 742 citations)
- IBRNet: Learning Multi-View Image-Based Rendering (CVPR 2021 · 722 citations)
- DL3DV-10K: A Large-Scale Scene Dataset for Deep Learning-based 3D Vision (CVPR 2024 · 140 citations)
- Structure-Aware Sparse-View X-ray 3D Reconstruction (CVPR 2024 · 77 citations)
Related topics in 3D vision
- Gaussian splatting (841)
- Human pose estimation (1,051)
- 3D generation (1,606)
- Face and shape (1,286)
- Depth and stereo (1,365)