Patents by Inventor Marc-Andre Gardner

Marc-Andre Gardner 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: 12106430
    Abstract: An automated and dynamic method and system are provided for estimating lighting conditions of a scene captured from a plurality of digital images. The method comprises generating 3D-source-specific-lighting parameters of the scene using a lighting-estimation neural network configured for: extracting from the plurality of images a corresponding number of latent feature vectors; transforming the latent feature vectors into common-coordinates latent feature vectors; merging the plurality of common-coordinates latent feature vectors into a single latent feature vector; and extracting, from the single latent feature vector, 3D-source-specific-lighting parameters of the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Depix Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Marc-Andre Gardner, Jean-François Lalonde, Christian Gagne
  • Patent number: 12008710
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can render a virtual object in a digital image by using a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to generate three-dimensional (“3D”) lighting parameters specific to a light source illuminating the digital image. To generate such source-specific-lighting parameters, for instance, the disclosed systems utilize a compact source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network comprising both common network layers and network layers specific to different lighting parameters. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further train such a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to accurately estimate spatially varying lighting in a digital image based on comparisons of predicted environment maps from a differentiable-projection layer with ground-truth-environment maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: Adobe Inc., Universite Laval
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Christian Gagne, Marc-Andre Gardner, Jean-Francois Lalonde
  • Publication number: 20240119751
    Abstract: In example embodiments, techniques are provided that use two different ML models (a symbol association ML model and a link association ML model), one to extract associations between text labels and one to extract associations between symbols and links, in a schematic diagram (e.g., P&ID) in an image-only format. The two models may use different ML architectures. For example, the symbol association ML model may use a deep learning neural network architecture that receives for each possible text label and symbol pair both a context and a request, and produces a score indicating confidence the pair is associated. The link association ML model may use a gradient boosting tree architecture that receives for each possible text label and link pair a set of multiple features describing at least the geometric relationship between the possible text label and link pair and produces a score indicating confidence the pair is associated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Marc-Andre Gardner, Simon Savary, Louis-Philippe Asselin
  • Publication number: 20230245382
    Abstract: An automated and dynamic method and system are provided for estimating lighting conditions of a scene captured from a plurality of digital images. The method comprises generating 3D-source-specific-lighting parameters of the scene using a lighting-estimation neural network configured for: extracting from the plurality of images a corresponding number of latent feature vectors; transforming the latent feature vectors into common-coordinates latent feature vectors; merging the plurality of common-coordinates latent feature vectors into a single latent feature vector; and extracting, from the single latent feature vector, 3D-source-specific-lighting parameters of the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Marc-Andre GARDNER, Jean-François LALONDE, Christian GAGNE
  • Publication number: 20230098115
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can render a virtual object in a digital image by using a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to generate three-dimensional (“3D”) lighting parameters specific to a light source illuminating the digital image. To generate such source-specific-lighting parameters, for instance, the disclosed systems utilize a compact source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network comprising both common network layers and network layers specific to different lighting parameters. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further train such a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to accurately estimate spatially varying lighting in a digital image based on comparisons of predicted environment maps from a differentiable-projection layer with ground-truth-environment maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Christian Gagne, Marc-Andre Gardner, Jean-Francois Lalonde
  • Patent number: 11538216
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can render a virtual object in a digital image by using a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to generate three-dimensional (“3D”) lighting parameters specific to a light source illuminating the digital image. To generate such source-specific-lighting parameters, for instance, the disclosed systems utilize a compact source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network comprising both common network layers and network layers specific to different lighting parameters. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further train such a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to accurately estimate spatially varying lighting in a digital image based on comparisons of predicted environment maps from a differentiable-projection layer with ground-truth-environment maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Christian Gagne, Marc-Andre Gardner, Jean-Francois Lalonde
  • Patent number: 11443412
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Mehmet Ersin Yumer, Marc-Andre Gardner, Xiaohui Shen, Jonathan Eisenmann, Emiliano Gambaretto
  • Publication number: 20210065440
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems that can render a virtual object in a digital image by using a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to generate three-dimensional (“3D”) lighting parameters specific to a light source illuminating the digital image. To generate such source-specific-lighting parameters, for instance, the disclosed systems utilize a compact source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network comprising both common network layers and network layers specific to different lighting parameters. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems further train such a source-specific-lighting-estimation-neural network to accurately estimate spatially varying lighting in a digital image based on comparisons of predicted environment maps from a differentiable-projection layer with ground-truth-environment maps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Christian Gagne, Marc-Andre Gardner, Jean-Francois Lalonde
  • Publication number: 20200074600
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Mehmet Ersin Yumer, Marc-Andre Gardner, Xiaohui Shen, Jonathan Eisenmann, Emiliano Gambaretto
  • Patent number: 10475169
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Mehmet Ersin Yumer, Marc-Andre Gardner, Xiaohui Shen, Jonathan Eisenmann, Emiliano Gambaretto
  • Publication number: 20190164261
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for estimating illumination from a single image are provided. An example system may include a neural network. The neural network may include an encoder that is configured to encode an input image into an intermediate representation. The neural network may also include an intensity decoder that is configured to decode the intermediate representation into an output light intensity map. An example intensity decoder is generated by a multi-phase training process that includes a first phase to train a light mask decoder using a set of low dynamic range images and a second phase to adjust parameters of the light mask decoder using a set of high dynamic range image to generate the intensity decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Kalyan Sunkavalli, Mehmet Ersin Yumer, Marc-Andre Gardner, Xiaohui Shen, Jonathan Eisenmann, Emiliano Gambaretto