ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,733, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Learning illumination from diverse portraits" was invented by Chloe LeGendre (Culver City, Calif.), Paul Debevec (Culver City, Calif.), Wan-Chun Ma (Culver City, Calif.), Rohit Pandey (Mountain View, Calif.), Sean Ryan Francesco Fanello (San Francisco) and Christina Tong (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of estimating lighting from portraits includes generating a lighting estimate from a single image of a face based on a machine learning (ML) system using multiple bidirectional reflection distribution functions (BRDFs) as a loss fu...