Patents by Inventor William Tafel Freeman

William Tafel Freeman 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).

  • Patent number: 11908071
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to reconstructing representations of bodies from images. An example method of the present disclosure includes inputting, into a machine-learned reconstruction model, input data descriptive of an image depicting a body; predicting, using a machine-learned marker prediction component of the reconstruction model, a set of surface marker locations on the body; and outputting, using a machine-learned marker poser component of the reconstruction model, an output representation of the body that corresponds to the set of surface marker locations. In the example method, one or more parameters of the reconstruction model were learned at least in part based on a consistency loss corresponding to a distance between relaxed-constraint representations generated from a prior set of surface marker locations predicted according to the one or more parameters and parametric representations generated from the prior set using kinematic constraints associated with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cristian Sminchisescu, Mihai Zanfir, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, William Tafel Freeman, Rahul Sukthankar
  • Publication number: 20240013497
    Abstract: A computing system and method can be used to render a 3D shape from one or more images. In particular, the present disclosure provides a general pipeline for learning articulated shape reconstruction from images (LASR). The pipeline can reconstruct rigid or nonrigid 3D shapes. In particular, the pipeline can automatically decompose non-rigidly deforming shapes into rigid motions near rigid-bones. This pipeline incorporates an analysis-by-synthesis strategy and forward-renders silhouette, optical flow, and color images which can be compared against the video observations to adjust the internal parameters of the model. By inverting a rendering pipeline and incorporating optical flow, the pipeline can recover a mesh of a 3D model from the one or more images input by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Deqing Sun, Varun Jampani, Gengshan Yang, Daniel Vlasic, Huiwen Chang, Forrester H. Cole, Ce Liu, William Tafel Freeman
  • 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: 11836221
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to a method for estimation of an object state from image data. The method can include obtaining two-dimensional image data depicting an object. The method can include processing, with an estimation portion of a machine-learned object state estimation model, the two-dimensional image data to obtain an initial estimated state of the object. The method can include, for each of one or more refinement iterations, obtaining a previous loss value associated with a previous estimated state for the object, processing the previous loss value to obtain a current estimated state of the object, and evaluating a loss function to determine a loss value associated with the current estimated state of the object. The method can include providing a final estimated state for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cristian Sminchisescu, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Mihai Zanfir, William Tafel Freeman, Rahul Sukthankar
  • Publication number: 20230116884
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to reconstructing representations of bodies from images. An example method of the present disclosure includes inputting, into a machine-learned reconstruction model, input data descriptive of an image depicting a body; predicting, using a machine-learned marker prediction component of the reconstruction model, a set of surface marker locations on the body; and outputting, using a machine-learned marker poser component of the reconstruction model, an output representation of the body that corresponds to the set of surface marker locations. In the example method, one or more parameters of the reconstruction model were learned at least in part based on a consistency loss corresponding to a distance between relaxed-constraint representations generated from a prior set of surface marker locations predicted according to the one or more parameters and parametric representations generated from the prior set using kinematic constraints associated with the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Cristian Sminchisescu, Mihai Zanfir, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, William Tafel Freeman, Rahul Sukthankar
  • Publication number: 20220292314
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to a method for estimation of an object state from image data. The method can include obtaining two-dimensional image data depicting an object. The method can include processing, with an estimation portion of a machine-learned object state estimation model, the two-dimensional image data to obtain an initial estimated state of the object. The method can include, for each of one or more refinement iterations, obtaining a previous loss value associated with a previous estimated state for the object, processing the previous loss value to obtain a current estimated state of the object, and evaluating a loss function to determine a loss value associated with the current estimated state of the object. The method can include providing a final estimated state for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Cristian Sminchisescu, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Mihai Zanfir, William Tafel Freeman, Rahul Sukthankar