NVIDIA researchers collaborated with ETH Zurich and Disney Research|Studios on a new paper, “NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures” that will be presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR) June 29 – July 2, 2021. The paper introduces a new modeling primitive: neural reflectance field textures, or NeRF-Tex for short. NeRF-Tex is inspired by recent techniques for representing real and virtual scenes using neural networks. The main distinction of NeRF-Tex is that it does not attempt to completely replace classical graphics modeling, like many neural approaches do nowadays, but it complements them in situations where they struggle.
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-research-nerf-tex-neural-reflectance-field-textures/