Patents by Inventor Hujun Bao

Hujun Bao 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: 12602872
    Abstract: A drivable implicit three-dimensional human body representation method, which is used for performing dynamic reconstruction by means of optimizing a three-dimensional representation of a drivable model from an input multi-view video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao, Sida Peng, Junting Dong
  • Patent number: 12518485
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a three-dimensional reconstruction and angle of view synthesis method for a moving human body, which performs reconstruction of a moving human body by optimizing three-dimensional representations of the moving human body from an inputted multi-angle of view video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao, Sida Peng
  • Patent number: 12468921
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pipelining and parallelizing graph execution method for neural network model computation and apparatus, and provides a pipelining and parallelizing graph execution method for neural network model computation and apparatus in a deep learning training system. The method includes the graph execution flow in a neural network model computation process and a process of cooperative work of all functional modules. The pipelining and parallelizing graph execution method for neural network model computation includes creating a graph executive on a native machine according to a physical computation graph compiled and generated by a deep learning framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Bowen Tan, Hujun Bao, Guang Chen
  • Patent number: 12406438
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is an indoor scene virtual roaming method based on reflection decomposition, the method includes: firstly, by means of three-dimensional reconstruction, obtaining a rough global triangular mesh model projection as an initial depth map, aligning depth edges to color edges, and converting the aligned depth map into a simplified triangular mesh; checking planes in the global triangular mesh model, and if a certain plane is a reflection plane, constructing a double-layer expression in a reflection area for each picture in which the reflection plane is visible, so as to correctly render the reflection effect on an object surface; and giving a virtual viewport, using neighborhood pictures and the triangular mesh to draw a picture of the virtual viewport, and for the reflection area, using foreground and background pictures and foreground and background triangular meshes to perform drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Weiwei Xu, Jiamin Xu, Xiuchao Wu, Zihan Zhu, Hujun Bao
  • Patent number: 12361563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a human motion capture method based on unsynchronized videos, which can effectively recover the 3D motion of a target person through multiple unsynchronized videos of the person. In order to utilize multiple unsynchronized videos, the present disclosure provides a video synchronization and motion reconstruction method. The present disclosure is implemented in the following steps: synchronizing multiple videos based on a 3D human pose; performing motion reconstruction based on synchronized videos, modeling the motion difference across different viewpoints by using the low-rank constraint to realize high-precision human motion capture from the plurality of unsynchronized videos. According to the present disclosure, more accurate motion capture is carried out by using multiple unsynchronized videos.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou, Junting Dong, Qing Shuai
  • Patent number: 12272177
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional data set of a pedestrian re-identification based on a neural radiation field. The method includes the following steps: S1: capturing images of pedestrians to be entered by a group of cameras at different viewing angles; S2: generating a three-dimensional spatial position point set by sampling through camera rays in the scenario, and converting observation directions of the cameras corresponding to the three-dimensional spatial position point set into three-dimensional Cartesian unit vectors; and S3: inputting, into a multi-layer sensor, the three-dimensional spatial position point set and the observation directions converted into the three-dimensional Cartesian unit vectors, to output corresponding densities and colors. The method and apparatus of the present disclosure gives a brand-new method for constructing a pedestrian re-identification data set, and provides a new idea of data set construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Guang Chen, Hujun Bao
  • Patent number: 12213767
    Abstract: Provided is a video-based method and system for accurately estimating heart rate and facial blood volume distribution, and the method mainly comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out face detection of video frame containing human face, and extracting face image sequence and face key position points sequence in time dimension; secondly, compressing these sequence of face image and face key position points to obtain the facial signals in time dimension; thirdly, estimating facial blood volume distribution by facial signals mentioned in third step; finally, estimating heart rate values by using model based on deep learning technology and the spectrum analysis method respectively, then fusing the estimation results by Kalman filter to promote the accuracy of heart rate estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Xiaogang Xu, Xiaolong Wang
  • Patent number: 12154220
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a dynamic rendering method and device based on implicit light transfer function, comprising the following steps: step 1, inserting an object into an original three-dimensional scene to form a new three-dimensional scene, using a new three-dimensional scene, a camera position, and an observation direction as input samples, and using the difference between the true value of the rendering result of the original three-dimensional scene and the true value of the rendering result of the new three-dimensional scene as a first sample label to form a first class of sample data; supervised learning of a neural network by using the first class of sample data, using a neural network with optimizable parameters as the implicit light transfer function; step 2, taking the new three-dimensional scene, the camera position, and the observation direction as input variables of the implicit light transfer function, obtaining a radiance change field of the new three-dimensional scene through the cal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Yuchi Huo, Rui Wang, Chuankun Zheng
  • Patent number: 12094049
    Abstract: A shader auto-simplifying method and system include: obtaining a rendering instruction flow, extracting a target shader from the rendering instruction flow, and creating a simplifying shader differing from the target shader in code only; intercepting a current frame of a rendering instruction with a rendering initiating instruction of the target shader as a particular frame; obtaining time consumed by the simplifying shader by measuring time needed for rendering the particular frame with the simplifying shader; obtaining error(s) of the simplifying shader by measuring a pixel difference value between a rendering frame drawn by the simplifying shader and the particular frame when a rendering instruction corresponding to the particular frame is executed; and screening an optimal simplifying shader according to the time consumed by the simplifying shader and the error of the simplifying shader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Rui Wang, Dejin He, Shi Li
  • Publication number: 20240265627
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a dynamic rendering method and device based on implicit light transfer function, comprising the following steps: step 1, inserting an object into an original three-dimensional scene to form a new three-dimensional scene, using a new three-dimensional scene, a camera position, and an observation direction as input samples, and using the difference between the true value of the rendering result of the original three-dimensional scene and the true value of the rendering result of the new three-dimensional scene as a first sample label to form a first class of sample data; supervised learning of a neural network by using the first class of sample data, using a neural network with optimizable parameters as the implicit light transfer function; step 2, taking the new three-dimensional scene, the camera position, and the observation direction as input variables of the implicit light transfer function, obtaining a radiance change field of the new three-dimensional scene through the cal
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: HUJUN BAO, YUCHI HUO, RUI WANG, CHUANKUN ZHENG
  • Patent number: 12014463
    Abstract: A data acquisition and reconstruction method and a data acquisition and reconstruction system for human body three-dimensional modeling based on a single mobile phone. In the aspect of data acquisition, the present application only uses a single smart phone, and uses augmented reality technology to guide users to collect high-quality video data input for a reconstruction algorithm, so as to ensure that the subsequent human body reconstruction algorithm can stably obtain a high-quality three-dimensional human body model. In the aspect of a reconstruction algorithm, the present application designs a deformable implicit neural radiance field. The use of an implicit spatial deformation field estimation model solves the problem that the subject has small motion in the process of collecting data with a single mobile phone; the implicit signed distance field is used to represent human geometry, which has rich expressive ability and improves the accuracy of three-dimensional human model reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: IMAGE DERIVATIVE INC.
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Jiaming Sun, Yunsheng Luo, Zhiyuan Yu, Hongcheng Zhao, Xiaowei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240169674
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is an indoor scene virtual roaming method based on reflection decomposition, the method includes: firstly, by means of three-dimensional reconstruction, obtaining a rough global triangular mesh model projection as an initial depth map, aligning depth edges to color edges, and converting the aligned depth map into a simplified triangular mesh; checking planes in the global triangular mesh model, and if a certain plane is a reflection plane, constructing a double-layer expression in a reflection area for each picture in which the reflection plane is visible, so as to correctly render the reflection effect on an object surface; and giving a virtual viewport, using neighborhood pictures and the triangular mesh to draw a picture of the virtual viewport, and for the reflection area, using foreground and background pictures and foreground and background triangular meshes to perform drawing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Weiwei XU, Jiamin XU, Xiuchao WU, Zihan ZHU, Hujun BAO
  • Patent number: 11989797
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a cloud-client rendering computing method based on an adaptive virtualized rendering pipeline, comprising the following steps of: defining a rendering pipeline, including defining a rendering resource, a rendering algorithm, and a read-write relationship between the rendering algorithm and the rendering resource; selecting an optimal cloud-client computing distribution solution in a real-time manner from a cloud-client computing distribution solution set comprising each rendering resource that is allocated to a cloud or client for computing, based on self-defined optimization objectives and an optimization budget of a framework user; and executing a corresponding rendering algorithm on cloud and/or on a client according to the cloud-client computing distribution solution, thereby obtaining a rendering result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hujun Bao, Rui Wang, Weiju Lan
  • Publication number: 20240153213
    Abstract: A data acquisition and reconstruction method and a data acquisition and reconstruction system for human body three-dimensional modeling based on a single mobile phone. In the aspect of data acquisition, the present application only uses a single smart phone, and uses augmented reality technology to guide users to collect high-quality video data input for a reconstruction algorithm, so as to ensure that the subsequent human body reconstruction algorithm can stably obtain a high-quality three-dimensional human body model. In the aspect of a reconstruction algorithm, the present application designs a deformable implicit neural radiance field. The use of an implicit spatial deformation field estimation model solves the problem that the subject has small motion in the process of collecting data with a single mobile phone; the implicit signed distance field is used to represent human geometry, which has rich expressive ability and improves the accuracy of three-dimensional human model reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Hujun BAO, Jiaming SUN, Yunsheng LUO, Zhiyuan YU, Hongcheng ZHAO, Xiaowei ZHOU
  • Patent number: 11941532
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for adapting a deep learning framework to a hardware device based on a unified backend engine, which comprises the following steps: S1, adding the unified backend engine to the deep learning framework; S2, adding the unified backend engine to the hardware device; S3, converting a computational graph, wherein the computational graph compiled and generated by the deep learning framework is converted into an intermediate representation of the unified backend engine; S4, compiling the intermediate representation, wherein the unified backend engine compiles the intermediate representation on the hardware device to generate an executable object; S5, running the executable object, wherein the deep learning framework runs the executable object on the hardware device; S6: managing memory of the unified backend engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Wei Hua, Hujun Bao, Fei Yang
  • Patent number: 11941514
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for execution of a computational graph in a neural network model and an apparatus thereof, including: creating task execution bodies on a native machine according to a physical computational graph compiled and generated by a deep learning framework, and designing a solution for allocating a plurality of idle memory blocks to each task execution body, so that the entire computational graph participates in deep learning training tasks of different batches of data in a pipelining and parallelizing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Hujun Bao, Guang Chen, Lingfang Zeng, Hongcai Cheng, Yong Li, Jian Zhu, Huanbo Zheng
  • Publication number: 20240046570
    Abstract: A drivable implicit three-dimensional human body representation method, which is used for performing dynamic reconstruction by means of optimizing a three-dimensional representation of a drivable model from an input multi-view video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Xiaowei ZHOU, Hujun BAO, Sida PENG, Junting DONG
  • Patent number: 11861505
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method of executing dynamic graph for neural network computation and the apparatus thereof. The method of executing dynamic graph includes the following steps: S1: constructing and distributing an operator and a tensor; S2: deducing an operator executing process by an operator interpreter; S3: constructing an instruction of a virtual machine at runtime by the operator interpreter; S4: sending the instruction to the virtual machine at runtime by the operator interpreter; S5: scheduling the instruction by the virtual machine; and S6: releasing an executed instruction by the virtual machine. According to the method of executing dynamic graph for neural network computation and the apparatus thereof provided by the disclosure, runtime is abstracted to be the virtual machine, and the virtual machine acquires a sub-graph of each step constructed by a user in real time through the interpreter and schedules, the virtual machines issues, and executes each sub-graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LAB
    Inventors: Hongsheng Wang, Hujun Bao, Guang Chen
  • Patent number: 11854172
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a color contrast enhanced rendering method, device and system suitable for an optical see-through head-mounted display. The method includes: (1) acquiring a background environment in real time to obtain a background video and performing Gaussian blur and visual field correction on the video; (2) converting an original rendering color and a processed video color from an RGB color space to a CIELAB color space scaled to a unit sphere range; (3) finding an optimal rendering color based on the original rendering color and the processed video color in the scaled CIELAB space according to a set color difference constraint, a chromaticity saturation constraint, a brightness constraint and a just noticeable difference constraint; and (4) after converting the optimal rendering color back to the RGB space, performing real-time rendering by using the optimal rendering color of the RGB space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Hujun Bao, Yunjin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230410560
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional data set of a pedestrian re-identification based on a neural radiation field. The method includes the following steps: S1: capturing images of pedestrians to be entered by a group of cameras at different viewing angles; S2: generating a three-dimensional spatial position point set by sampling through camera rays in the scenario, and converting observation directions of the cameras corresponding to the three-dimensional spatial position point set into three-dimensional Cartesian unit vectors; and S3: inputting, into a multi-layer sensor, the three-dimensional spatial position point set and the observation directions converted into the three-dimensional Cartesian unit vectors, to output corresponding densities and colors. The method and apparatus of the present disclosure gives a brand-new method for constructing a pedestrian re-identification data set, and provides a new idea of data set construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hongsheng WANG, Guang CHEN, Hujun BAO