From 097083079cc11104ad9ef99f2d6a187da4159253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Byrer <tomByrer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 23:16:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] + 2 minute papers link

FYI
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 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 89f0b5cc..95ff3726 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Website and video: <https://alexyu.net/plenoxels>
 
 arXiv: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05131>
 
+[Featured at Two Minute Papers YouTube](https://youtu.be/yptwRRpPEBM) 2022-01-11
+
 **Note:** This is a preliminary release. We have not carefully tested everything,
 but feel that it would be better to first put the code out there.
 

From 4948c928000d1a57f176656230f651523be7b778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Yu <alexyu99126@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:10:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Links

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 README.md | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0036bf14..089801bf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ A JAX implementation is also available at <https://github.com/sarafridov/plenoxe
 
 ![Overview](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sxyu/svox2/master/github_img/pipeline.png)
 
+Please also check out PeRFCeption [Jeong, Shin, Lee, et al], which uses Plenoxels with tuned parameters:
+https://github.com/POSTECH-CVLab/PeRFception
+
+Artistic Radiance Fields by Kai Zhang et al
+https://github.com/Kai-46/ARF-svox2
+
 ## Setup
 
 First create the virtualenv; we recommend using conda:
@@ -134,10 +140,11 @@ Please take images all around the object and try to take images at different ele
 First make sure you have colmap installed. Then
 
 (in opt/scripts)
-`bash proc_colmap.sh <img_dir>`
+`bash proc_colmap.sh <img_dir> --noradial`
 
 Where `<img_dir>` should be a directory directly containing png/jpg images from a 
 normal perspective camera.
+UPDATE: `--noradial` is recommended since otherwise, the script performs undistortion, which seems to not work well and make results blurry.
 For custom datasets we adopt a data format similar to that in NSVF
 <https://github.com/facebookresearch/NSVF>
 
@@ -154,7 +161,7 @@ Now follow the "Voxel Optimization (aka Training)" section to train:
 `./launch.sh <exp_name> <GPU_id> <data_dir> -c configs/custom.json`
 
 You can also try `configs/custom_alt.json` which has some minor differences.
-You may need to tune the TV for best results.
+You may need to tune the TV and sparsity loss for best results.
 
 To render a video, please see the "rendering a spiral" section.
 To convert to a svox1-compatible PlenOctree (not perfect quality since interpolation is not implemented)