Patents by Inventor Alexei A. Efros

Alexei A. Efros has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240169701
    Abstract: Systems and methods for inserting an object into a background are described. Examples of the systems and methods include obtaining a background image including a region for inserting the object, and encoding the background image to obtain an encoded background. A modified image is then generated based on the encoded background using a diffusion model. The modified image depicts the object within the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: SUMITH KULAL, KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH, JIMEL YANG, JINGWAN LU, ALEXEI EFROS
  • Publication number: 20240169604
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image generation are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtain user input that indicates a target color and a semantic label for a region of an image to be generated. The system also generates of obtains a noise map including noise biased towards the target color in the region indicated by the user input. A diffusion model generates the image based on the noise map and the semantic label for the region. The image can include an object in the designated region that is described by the semantic label and that has the target color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Yosef Gandelsman, Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
  • Patent number: 11893763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image from extracted spatial and global codes. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a global and spatial autoencoder to extract spatial codes and global codes from digital images. The disclosed systems can further utilize the global and spatial autoencoder to generate a modified digital image by combining extracted spatial and global codes in various ways for various applications such as style swapping, style blending, and attribute editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Oliver Wang, Junyan Zhu, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A Efros
  • Patent number: 11763495
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and efficiently modifying a generative adversarial neural network using few-shot adaptation to generate digital images corresponding to a target domain while maintaining diversity of a source domain and realism of the target domain. In particular, the disclosed systems utilize a generative adversarial neural network with parameters learned from a large source domain. The disclosed systems preserve relative similarities and differences between digital images in the source domain using a cross-domain distance consistency loss. In addition, the disclosed systems utilize an anchor-based strategy to encourage different levels or measures of realism over digital images generated from latent vectors in different regions of a latent space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Ojha, Yijun Li, Richard Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
  • Publication number: 20230274535
    Abstract: An image generation system enables user input during the process of training a generative model to influence the model's ability to generate new images with desired visual features. A source generative model for a source domain is fine-tuned using training images in a target domain to provide an adapted generative model for the target domain. Interpretable factors are determined for the source generative model and the adapted generative model. A user interface is provided that enables a user to select one or more interpretable factors. The user-selected interpretable factor(s) are used to generate a user-adapted generative model, for instance, by using a loss function based on the user-selected interpretable factor(s). The user-adapted generative model can be used to create new images in the target domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yijun Li, Utkarsh Ojha, Richard Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
  • Publication number: 20230260175
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating digital images depicting photorealistic scenes utilizing a digital image collaging neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a digital image collaging neural network having a particular architecture for disentangling generation of scene layouts and pixel colors for different regions of a digital image. In some cases, the disclosed systems break down the process of generating a collage digital into generating images representing different regions such as a background and a foreground to be collaged into a final result. For example, utilizing the digital image collaging neural network, the disclosed systems determine scene layouts and pixel colors for both foreground digital images and background digital images to ultimately collage the foreground and background together into a collage digital image depicting a real-world scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Nadav Epstein, Alexei A. Efros, Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Elya Shechtman
  • Publication number: 20230245363
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly generating modified digital images utilizing a novel swapping autoencoder that incorporates scene layout. In particular, the disclosed systems can receive a scene layout map that indicates or defines locations for displaying specific digital content within a digital image. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize the scene layout map to guide combining portions of digital image latent code to generate a modified digital image with a particular textural appearance and a particular geometric structure defined by the scene layout map. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize a scene layout map that defines a portion of a digital image to modify by, for instance, adding new digital content to the digital image, and can generate a modified digital image depicting the new digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Alexei A. Efros, Elya Shechtman, Richard Zhang, Junyan Zhu
  • Patent number: 11625875
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly generating modified digital images utilizing a novel swapping autoencoder that incorporates scene layout. In particular, the disclosed systems can receive a scene layout map that indicates or defines locations for displaying specific digital content within a digital image. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize the scene layout map to guide combining portions of digital image latent code to generate a modified digital image with a particular textural appearance and a particular geometric structure defined by the scene layout map. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize a scene layout map that defines a portion of a digital image to modify by, for instance, adding new digital content to the digital image, and can generate a modified digital image depicting the new digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Alexei A. Efros, Elya Shechtman, Richard Zhang, Junyan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230102055
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image from extracted spatial and global codes. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a global and spatial autoencoder to extract spatial codes and global codes from digital images. The disclosed systems can further utilize the global and spatial autoencoder to generate a modified digital image by combining extracted spatial and global codes in various ways for various applications such as style swapping, style blending, and attribute editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Oliver Wang, Junyan Zhu, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
  • Patent number: 11544880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image from extracted spatial and global codes. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a global and spatial autoencoder to extract spatial codes and global codes from digital images. The disclosed systems can further utilize the global and spatial autoencoder to generate a modified digital image by combining extracted spatial and global codes in various ways for various applications such as style swapping, style blending, and attribute editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Oliver Wang, Junyan Zhu, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A Efros
  • Publication number: 20220254071
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and efficiently modifying a generative adversarial neural network using few-shot adaptation to generate digital images corresponding to a target domain while maintaining diversity of a source domain and realism of the target domain. In particular, the disclosed systems utilize a generative adversarial neural network with parameters learned from a large source domain. The disclosed systems preserve relative similarities and differences between digital images in the source domain using a cross-domain distance consistency loss. In addition, the disclosed systems utilize an anchor-based strategy to encourage different levels or measures of realism over digital images generated from latent vectors in different regions of a latent space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Utkarsh Ojha, Yijun Li, Richard Zhang, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
  • Publication number: 20220148241
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly generating modified digital images utilizing a novel swapping autoencoder that incorporates scene layout. In particular, the disclosed systems can receive a scene layout map that indicates or defines locations for displaying specific digital content within a digital image. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize the scene layout map to guide combining portions of digital image latent code to generate a modified digital image with a particular textural appearance and a particular geometric structure defined by the scene layout map. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize a scene layout map that defines a portion of a digital image to modify by, for instance, adding new digital content to the digital image, and can generate a modified digital image depicting the new digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Alexei A. Efros, Elya Shechtman, Richard Zhang, Junyan Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210358177
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating a modified digital image from extracted spatial and global codes. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a global and spatial autoencoder to extract spatial codes and global codes from digital images. The disclosed systems can further utilize the global and spatial autoencoder to generate a modified digital image by combining extracted spatial and global codes in various ways for various applications such as style swapping, style blending, and attribute editing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Taesung Park, Richard Zhang, Oliver Wang, Junyan Zhu, Jingwan Lu, Elya Shechtman, Alexei A Efros
  • Patent number: 11024060
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for converting a self-portrait image into a neutral-pose portrait image, including receiving a self-portrait input image, which contains at least one person who is the subject of the self-portrait. A nearest pose search selects a target neutral-pose image that closely matches or approximates the pose of the upper torso region of the subject in the self-portrait input image. Coordinate-based inpainting maps pixels from the upper torso region in the self-portrait input image to corresponding regions in the selected target neutral-pose image to produce a coarse result image. A neutral-pose composition refines the coarse result image by synthesizing details in the body region of the subject (which in some cases includes the subject's head, arms, and torso), and inpainting pixels into missing portions of the background. The refined image is composited with the original self-portrait input image to produce a neutral-pose result image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Liqian Ma, Jingwan Lu, Zhe Lin, Connelly Barnes, Alexei A. Efros
  • Patent number: 7785180
    Abstract: A method, comprising displaying an image to a first player, displaying a portion of the image to a second player wherein the portion of the image displayed to the second player is less than all of the image and wherein the portion of the image displayed to the second player is determined by an action of the first player, allowing the second player to submit a word, and determining whether the word submitted by the second player is related to the image. The present invention also includes apparatuses and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Luis von Ahn, Ruoran Liu, Manuel Blum, Alexei A. Efros, Maria Manuela Veloso
  • Patent number: 6919903
    Abstract: The invention provides an image-based method for generating novel visual appearance in a new image. Synthetic texture is stitching together from small patches in existing images. First, we use a least cost path determination to determine the local boundaries between the patches. Second, we perform texture transfer by rendering an arbitrary object with a synthetic texture taken from a different object. More generally, we provide methods for rendering entire images in styles of different images. The method works directly on pixel images, and does not require 3D information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Freeman, Alexei Efros
  • Publication number: 20020122043
    Abstract: The invention provides an image-based method for generating novel visual appearance in a new image. Synthetic texture is stitching together from small patches in existing images. First, we use a least cost path determination to determine the local boundaries between the patches. Second, we perform texture transfer by rendering an arbitrary object with a synthetic texture taken from a different object. More generally, we provide methods for rendering entire images in styles of different images. The method works directly on pixel images, and does not require 3D information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: William T. Freeman, Alexei Efros