US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on Feb. 4 for "Differentiable inverse rendering based on radiative backpropagation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,349, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Differentiable inverse rendering based on radiative backpropagation" was invented by Wenzel Jakob (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Merlin Nimier-David (Preverenges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented inverse rendering method comprising: computing an adjoint image by differentiating an objective function that evaluates the quality of a rendered image, image elements of the adjoint image encoding the sensitivity of spatially corresponding image elements of the rendered image with respect to the objec...