Patents by Inventor Towaki Takikawa

Towaki Takikawa 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: 20240161403
    Abstract: Text-to-image generation generally refers to the process of generating an image from one or more text prompts input by a user. While artificial intelligence has been a valuable tool for text-to-image generation, current artificial intelligence-based solutions are more limited as it relates to text-to-3D content creation. For example, these solutions are oftentimes category-dependent, or synthesize 3D content at a low resolution. The present disclosure provides a process and architecture for high-resolution text-to-3D content creation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Chen-Hsuan Lin, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler, Karsten Kreis, Luming Tang, Xiaohui Zeng, Jun Gao, Xun Huang, Towaki Takikawa
  • Publication number: 20230360278
    Abstract: Neural network performance is improved in terms of training speed, memory footprint, and/or accuracy by learning a compressed neural graphics primitive representation. A neural graphics primitive is a mathematical function involving at least one neural network, used to represent a computer graphic, where the graphic can be an image, a 3D shape, a light field, a signed distance function, a radiance field, 2D video, volumetric video, etc. Instead of being input directly to a neural network, inputs are effectively mapped (encoded) into a higher dimensional space via a function. The input comprises coordinates used to identify a point within a d-dimensional space. The point is quantized and a set of vertex coordinates corresponding to the point are used to access an indexing codebook and a features codebook that store learned index offsets and learned feature vectors, respectively. The learned feature vectors are then provided as inputs to the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Georg Keller, Thomas Müller-Höhne, Towaki Takikawa
  • Publication number: 20230342941
    Abstract: Various types of image analysis benefit from a multi-stream architecture that allows the analysis to consider shape data. A shape stream can process image data in parallel with a primary stream, where data from layers of a network in the primary stream is provided as input to a network of the shape stream. The shape data can be fused with the primary analysis data to produce more accurate output, such as to produce accurate boundary information when the shape data is used with semantic segmentation data produced by the primary stream. A gate structure can be used to connect the intermediate layers of the primary and shape streams, using higher level activations to gate lower level activations in the shape stream. Such a gate structure can help focus the shape stream on the relevant information and reduces any additional weight of the shape stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: David Jesus Acuna Marrero, Towaki Takikawa, Varun Jampani, Sanja Fidler
  • Patent number: 11676284
    Abstract: Various types of image analysis benefit from a multi-stream architecture that allows the analysis to consider shape data. A shape stream can process image data in parallel with a primary stream, where data from layers of a network in the primary stream is provided as input to a network of the shape stream. The shape data can be fused with the primary analysis data to produce more accurate output, such as to produce accurate boundary information when the shape data is used with semantic segmentation data produced by the primary stream. A gate structure can be used to connect the intermediate layers of the primary and shape streams, using higher level activations to gate lower level activations in the shape stream. Such a gate structure can help focus the shape stream on the relevant information and reduces any additional weight of the shape stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: David Jesus Acuna Marrero, Towaki Takikawa, Varun Jampani, Sanja Fidler
  • Publication number: 20200302612
    Abstract: Various types of image analysis benefit from a multi-stream architecture that allows the analysis to consider shape data. A shape stream can process image data in parallel with a primary stream, where data from layers of a network in the primary stream is provided as input to a network of the shape stream. The shape data can be fused with the primary analysis data to produce more accurate output, such as to produce accurate boundary information when the shape data is used with semantic segmentation data produced by the primary stream. A gate structure can be used to connect the intermediate layers of the primary and shape streams, using higher level activations to gate lower level activations in the shape stream. Such a gate structure can help focus the shape stream on the relevant information and reduces any additional weight of the shape stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: David Jesus Acuna Marrero, Towaki Takikawa, Varun Jampani, Sanja Fidler