Abstract: Systems and methods configured to determine appearance of woven and knitted textiles at the ply-level are presented herein. Exemplary embodiments may: obtain an input pattern of a textile, the input pattern comprising a two-dimensional weave pattern; obtain appearance information, the appearance information including one or more of color, transparency, or roughness; determine ply curve geometry based on ply-level fiber details making up individual plys; generate an image simulating an appearance of the textile based on the two-dimensional weave pattern, the appearance information, and the ply curve geometry so that the image simulating the appearance of the textile takes into account the ply-level fiber details; and/or perform other operations.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for face syncing in a distributed computing environment. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, by a processor, media assets that include faces of individuals; detecting, by the processor of a mobile device, the faces on the media assets; generating, by the processor, faceprints for the detected faces; clustering, by the processor, the faceprints into clusters; generating, by the processor, a face crop image for each cluster; and sending, by the processor, the face crop images to a network-based, distributed syncing service.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for transmitting a virtual reality image, a method for reproducing a virtual reality image, and a program using the same. A method for transmitting a virtual reality image includes an operation (S120) of creating an initial image frame by a server, an operation (S140) of determining image direction data corresponding to the initial image frame, an operation (S160) of creating a final image frame by coupling the image direction data to the initial image frame as meta information; and an operation (S180) of transmitting the final image frame to a client through wireless communication.

Abstract: A sound source reproducing device which communicates with an electronic device providing images and original sound may be provided. The sound source reproducing device includes: an interface which receives position information of at least one virtual object included in the image and the original sound from the electronic device; and a controller which generates virtual speaker position information corresponding to the position information of the at least one virtual object received from the interface, and converts the original sound received from the interface into a sound source signal for a plurality of speakers on the basis of the virtual speaker position information.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a 3D scene are disclosed. A reference image representative of an image of the scene captured under ambient lighting is determined. A texture-free map is determined from said reference image and an input image of the scene. The 3D scene is then processed using the determined texture-free map.

Abstract: Motion adaptive shading increases rendering performance for real-time animation in graphics systems while maintaining dynamic image quality. Each frame of an animation is statically displayed within a refresh interval, while a viewer's eyes move continuously relative to the image when actively tracking a moving object being displayed. As a result, a statically displayed frame is essentially smeared across the viewer's continuously moving retina over the lifetime of the frame, causing a perception of blur referred to as an eye-tracking motion blur effect. A region of an image depicting a moving object may be rendered at a lower shading rate because eye-tracking motion blur will substantially mask any blur introduced by reducing the shading rate. Reducing an average shading rate for rendering frames reduces computational effort per frame and may advantageously allow a rendering system to operate at a higher frame rate to provide a smoother, clearer visual experience.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for denoising of images generated by a rendering engine such as a ray tracing engine. For example, one embodiment of a system or apparatus comprises: A system comprising: a plurality of nodes to perform ray tracing operations; a dispatcher node to dispatch graphics work to the plurality of nodes, each node to perform ray tracing to render a region of an image frame; at least a first node of the plurality comprising: a ray-tracing renderer to perform ray tracing to render a first region of the image frame; and a denoiser to perform denoising of the first region using a combination of data associated with the first region and data associated with a region outside of the first region, at least some of the data associated with the region outside of the first region to be retrieved from at least one other node.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for transforming a motion style of an avatar from a first style to a second style. The program and method include: retrieving, by a processor from a storage device, an avatar depicting motion in a first style; receiving user input selecting a second style; obtaining, based on the user input, a trained machine learning model that performs a non-linear transformation of motion from the first style to the second style; and applying the obtained trained machine learning model to the retrieved avatar to transform the avatar from depicting motion in the first style to depicting motion in the second style.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for rendering an avatar. A first avatar having a first level of detail is stored in a database, the first avatar including a first plurality of components. A level of detail of each of the first plurality of components is reduced separately from each other. A second plurality of components comprising the reduced level of detail of each of the first plurality of components is stored. A request is received for the first avatar in a second level of detail that comprises a lower level of detail than the first level of detail. In response to receiving the request, the second plurality of components is assembled to generate a second avatar having the second level of detail.

Abstract: A method of assisting in selection of a particular mask from among a plurality of masks, the method comprising: generating a plurality of augmented faces, each augmented face corresponding to a respective mask of the plurality of masks; and associating each augmented face with a respective mask of the plurality of masks.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating roof reports. In one embodiment, a user begins by entering an address into an application and clicking a “request” button. A 3D model of the structure at the address is prepared. The application may then proceed with manual or automatic roof extraction. For manual roof extraction, an analyst may outline roof facets to create a roof model. For automatic roof extraction, the application may use machine learning or another technique to automatically extract and then simplify roof facets. In either case, the application may then present the roof model to a reviewer for inspection. The reviewer may then accept or reject the roof model. If the reviewer rejects the roof model, an analyst may correct the roof model and resuming it for review. Once the roof model passes a review, the application may then proceed with converting the roof model into a roof report.

Abstract: Systems and method for creating, modifying, and utilizing a virtual 360-degree view of a telecommunications site obtaining data capture from the telecommunications site, wherein the data capture comprises one or more of photos and video; processing the data capture to create a three-dimensional (3D) model of the telecommunications site in a first state, buildings, and constructions therein; importing the 3D model into modification software and adding one or more objects to the 3D model utilizing the modification software, wherein the one or more objects comprise one or more of geography, buildings, and constructions planned as possible additions to the telecommunications sites; creating a modified 3D model with the one or more objects and the 3D model in the first state such that the modified 3D model represents the telecommunications site in a second state; and utilizing the modified 3D model for one or more of planning, engineering, and installation.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a processor, a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) data associated with a 3D CAD model, receiving, via the processor, a product and manufacturing information (PMI) data associated with the 3D CAD data, and receiving, via the processor, user input. The method also includes deriving, via the processor, a view of the 3D CAD data based on the received PMI data and the received user input.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.

Abstract: According one embodiment, there is provided a drawing method, that comprises: when at least part of a first surface and at least part of a second surface are practically congruent to each other in a three-dimensional coordinate system, assigning each of a first drawing pattern related to the first surface and a second drawing pattern related to the second surface to any one of more than one unit drawing area forming the at least part of the first surface or the at least part of the second surface, drawing the more than one unit drawing area by using the first drawing pattern and the second drawing pattern each assigned to any one of the more than one unit drawing area, and thereby drawing the at least part of the first surface or the second surface.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a dynamic vision sensor (DVS) configured to output an asynchronous stream of sensor event data, a CMOS image sensor configured to output frames of image data, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a processor and a memory. The memory contains instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a semantic segmentation of a time-stamped frame, which is based on one or more of an output of the CMOS image sensor, or a synthesized event frame based on an output from the DVS and an output from the IMU over a time interval. The semantic segmentation includes a semantic label associated with a region of the time-stamped frame. When executed, the instructions further cause the apparatus to determine, based on the semantic segmentation, a simplified object representation in a coordinate space, and update a stable semantic map based on the simplified object representation.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic runtime transformation of graphics processing commands for improved graphics performance on computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a command stream associated with an application, where the command stream includes dispatches. The method may further include evaluating processing parameters relating to each of the dispatches, where evaluating further includes associating a first plan with one or more of the dispatches to transform the command stream into a transformed command stream. The method may further include associating, based on the first plan, a second plan to the one or more of the dispatches, where the second plan represents the transformed command stream. The method may further include executing the second plan, where execution of the second plan includes processing the transformed command stream in lieu of the command stream.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable medium. The image processing method includes: acquiring an image to be processed, the image to be processed including a target portrait; obtaining a target three-dimensional (3D) model by performing a 3D reconstruction operation on the target portrait in the image to be processed; obtaining a portrait lighting image by performing portrait lighting processing on the target 3D model, and extracting a first image including the target portrait from the portrait lighting image; and merging a second image including a photographic background cloth and the first image into a target image, the second image being used as a background image of the first image.

Abstract: Techniques for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a dynamic scene as a set of voxels are provided. One technique includes: receiving, by a processor, image data from each of two or more spatially-separated sensors observing the scene from a corresponding two or more vantage points; fusing, by the processor, the image data into the set of voxels on a frame-by-frame basis; segmenting, by the processor, the image data into objects that constitute the scene; detecting, by the processor, which of the objects remain static from frame to frame, remaining ones of the objects being dynamic; filtering, by the processor, the set of voxels to remove those of the voxels corresponding to the static objects, to produce a dynamic subset of the voxels; and outputting, by the processor to a display device, those of the voxels corresponding to the dynamic objects (such as the dynamic subset) and not to the static objects.