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Neural Radiance Fields are a technique from the neural rendering research field, while photogrammetry is a research field on its own. However these are just turf wars and in practice there is a lot of overlap between both fields.

For example, most NeRF implementations recommend the use of COLMAP (traditionally a photogrammetry tool) to obtain camera positions/rotations that are used alongside their images. So this multi-view stereo step is shared between both NeRF (except a few research works that also optimize for camera positions/rotations through a neural network) and photogrammetry.

After the multi-view stereo step in NeRF you train a neural renderer, while in photogrammetry you would run a multi-view geometry step/package that uses more traditional optimization algorithms.

The expected output of both techniques is slightly different. NeRF produces renderings and can optionally export a mesh (using the marching cubes algorithm). Photogrammetry produces meshes and in the process might render the scene for editting purposes.



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