diff --git a/projects/nerf/nerf/__init__.py b/projects/nerf/nerf/__init__.py
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+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
diff --git a/projects/nerf/nerf/raymarcher.py b/projects/nerf/nerf/raymarcher.py
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+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+import torch
+from pytorch3d.renderer import EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher
+from pytorch3d.renderer.implicit.raymarching import (
+    _check_density_bounds,
+    _check_raymarcher_inputs,
+    _shifted_cumprod,
+)
+
+
+class EmissionAbsorptionNeRFRaymarcher(EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher):
+    """
+    This is essentially the `pytorch3d.renderer.EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher`
+    which additionally returns the rendering weights. It also skips returning
+    the computation of the alpha-mask which is, in case of NeRF, equal to 1
+    everywhere.
+
+    The weights are later used in the NeRF pipeline to carry out the importance
+    ray-sampling for the fine rendering pass.
+
+    For more details about the EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher please refer to
+    the documentation of `pytorch3d.renderer.EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher`.
+    """
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        rays_densities: torch.Tensor,
+        rays_features: torch.Tensor,
+        eps: float = 1e-10,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Args:
+            rays_densities: Per-ray density values represented with a tensor
+                of shape `(..., n_points_per_ray, 1)` whose values range in [0, 1].
+            rays_features: Per-ray feature values represented with a tensor
+                of shape `(..., n_points_per_ray, feature_dim)`.
+            eps: A lower bound added to `rays_densities` before computing
+                the absorbtion function (cumprod of `1-rays_densities` along
+                each ray). This prevents the cumprod to yield exact 0
+                which would inhibit any gradient-based learning.
+
+        Returns:
+            features: A tensor of shape `(..., feature_dim)` containing
+                the rendered features for each ray.
+            weights: A tensor of shape `(..., n_points_per_ray)` containing
+                the ray-specific emission-absorbtion distribution.
+                Each ray distribution `(..., :)` is a valid probability
+                distribution, i.e. it contains non-negative values that integrate
+                to 1, such that `weights.sum(dim=-1)==1).all()` yields `True`.
+        """
+        _check_raymarcher_inputs(
+            rays_densities,
+            rays_features,
+            None,
+            z_can_be_none=True,
+            features_can_be_none=False,
+            density_1d=True,
+        )
+        _check_density_bounds(rays_densities)
+        rays_densities = rays_densities[..., 0]
+        absorption = _shifted_cumprod(
+            (1.0 + eps) - rays_densities, shift=self.surface_thickness
+        )
+        weights = rays_densities * absorption
+        features = (weights[..., None] * rays_features).sum(dim=-2)
+
+        return features, weights
diff --git a/projects/nerf/tests/__init__.py b/projects/nerf/tests/__init__.py
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+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
diff --git a/projects/nerf/tests/test_raymarcher.py b/projects/nerf/tests/test_raymarcher.py
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+# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+
+import unittest
+
+import torch
+from nerf.raymarcher import EmissionAbsorptionNeRFRaymarcher
+from pytorch3d.renderer import EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher
+
+
+class TestRaymarcher(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
+        torch.manual_seed(42)
+
+    def test_raymarcher(self):
+        """
+        Checks that the nerf raymarcher outputs are identical to the
+        EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher.
+        """
+
+        feat_dim = 3
+        rays_densities = torch.rand(100, 10, 1)
+        rays_features = torch.randn(100, 10, feat_dim)
+
+        out, out_nerf = [
+            raymarcher(rays_densities, rays_features)
+            for raymarcher in (
+                EmissionAbsorptionRaymarcher(),
+                EmissionAbsorptionNeRFRaymarcher(),
+            )
+        ]
+
+        self.assertTrue(
+            torch.allclose(out[..., :feat_dim], out_nerf[0][..., :feat_dim])
+        )