Patents by Inventor Frederic Pierre Durand

Frederic Pierre Durand 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: 20240005627
    Abstract: A method of conditional neural ground planes for static-dynamic disentanglement is described. The method includes extracting, using a convolutional neural network (CNN), CNN image features from an image to form a feature tensor. The method also includes resampling unprojected 2D features of the feature tensor to form feature pillars. The method further includes aggregating the feature pillars to form an entangled neural ground plane. The method also includes decomposing the entangled neural ground plane into a static neural ground plane and a dynamic neural ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Prafull SHARMA, Ayush TEWARI, Yilun DU, Sergey ZAKHAROV, Rares Andrei AMBRUS, Adrien David GAIDON, William Tafel FREEMAN, Frederic Pierre DURAND, Joshua B. TENENBAUM, Vincent SITZMANN
  • Patent number: 10242427
    Abstract: Geometries of the structures and objects deviate from their idealized models, while not always visible to the naked eye. Embodiments of the present invention reveal and visualize such subtle geometric deviations, which can contain useful, surprising information. In an embodiment of the present invention, a method can include fitting a model of a geometry to an input image, matting a region of the input image according to the model based on a sampling function, generating a deviation function based on the matted region, extrapolating the deviation function to an image wide warping field, and generating an output image by warping the input image according to the warping. In an embodiment of the present invention, Deviation Magnification inputs takes a still image or frame, fits parametric models to objects of interest, and generates an output image exaggerating departures from ideal geometries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Neal Wadhwa, Tali Dekel, Donglai Wei, Frederic Pierre Durand, William T. Freeman
  • Patent number: 10037609
    Abstract: A method and corresponding device for identifying operational mode shapes of an object in a video stream includes extracting pixel-wise Eulerian motion signals of an object from an undercomplete representation of frames within a video stream. Pixel-wise Eulerian motion signals are downselected to produce a representative set of Eulerian motion signals of the object. Operational mode shapes of the object are identified based on the representative set. Resonant frequencies can also be identified. Embodiments enable vibrational characteristics of objects to be determined using video in near real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Justin Gejune Chen, Oral Buyukozturk, William T. Freeman, Frederic Pierre Durand, Myers Abraham Davis, Neal Wadhwa
  • Publication number: 20170221216
    Abstract: A method and corresponding device for identifying operational mode shapes of an object in a video stream includes extracting pixel-wise Eulerian motion signals of an object from an undercomplete representation of frames within a video stream. Pixel-wise Eulerian motion signals are downselected to produce a representative set of Eulerian motion signals of the object. Operational mode shapes of the object are identified based on the representative set. Resonant frequencies can also be identified. Embodiments enable vibrational characteristics of objects to be determined using video in near real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Justin Gejune Chen, Oral Buyukozturk, William T. Freeman, Frederic Pierre Durand, Myers Abraham Davis, Neal Wadhwa