The award honors outstanding computer professionals under age 35.
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
Users are congratulating Ben Mildenhall and Pratul Srinivasan on their ACM Grace Hopper Award for NeRF because they view the work as a major technical leap with lasting impact on visual computing research.
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@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Congrats @BenMildenhall & @_pratul_! The NeRF work is a major leap forward, and the recognition is extremely well deserved!
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
Congrats, @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_ !
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
Congrats @BenMildenhall, @_pratul_, and the entire NeRF team! It's difficult to highlight enough how much impact NeRF had on our research area.
However, I feel what's often overlooked how big of a jump this was in a single paper at the time: 1) differentiable rendering with a 3D representation that encodes density and appearance values 2) a neural field scene representation: combination of MLPs + positional encodings (they could've used a grid too but they didn't and it provided better local resolution). 3) view-dependent effects realized with view angle conditioning, regularized by feeding it into the network at a later stage (so less capacity for this part to mitigate overfitting).
The result was a new paradigm for joint 3D scene reconstruction and neural rendering with literally thousands of follow up papers - a once in a life-time work!
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado And congrats to everyone who worked on the initial research for NeRF! 🎉
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Congrats @BenMildenhall & @_pratul_! The NeRF work is a major leap forward, and the recognition is extremely well deserved!
@JeffDean @jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado NeRF redefined implicit scene modeling—this milestone accelerates photorealistic rendering and unlocks new possibilities in computer vision.
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Always nice to see ACM recognize work in visual computing. 😁
Congrats @BenMildenhall , @_pratul_ !
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado It's such a joy to stumble across an old classmate and see how far they've come.
Congratulations @_pratul_ on the well-deserved recognition and can't wait to see the continued impact that you'll have on the world!
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_ 🚀🥳
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Congratulations Ben and Pratul! 🥳🍾
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
@jon_barron @JeffDean @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Poor Matt, why is always left out?
Congrats @BenMildenhall and @_pratul_! ACM gives Grace Hopper Awards to under-35-year-olds for *one specific thing*, here it's NeRF.
Past winners include Donald Knuth (for "The Art of Computer Programming"), Steve Wozniak (for Apple), and @martin_casado (for SDN). Good company!
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado This is the definition of “test of time” impact. Huge congrats @BenMildenhall and @pratul incredibly well deserved!
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado nerf team now in the legend club fr
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado So cameras can now do what $50k 3D scanners used to do. That changes the economics of building mobile robots.
@Hersh_Desai @jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado yes knuth and wozniac are legendary too
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado robotics angle: cheap 3D capture moves teams from perfect simulations to real job sites. messier environments teach you what actually matters.
@Aakashk96959852 @JeffDean @jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado The MLP-based implicit scene representation is elegant. Curious about the sampling strategy improvements in the later versions.
@Aakashk96959852 @JeffDean @jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Benchmarks don't lie. NeRF consistently outperforms traditional MVS pipelines on novel view synthesis. Well deserved.
@Aakashk96959852 @JeffDean @jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado Been tracking NeRF since 2020—finally seeing it hit mainstream. This recognition validates years of implicit neural representation research.
@jon_barron @BenMildenhall @_pratul_ @martin_casado wild seeing nerf join that lineage feels like history looping