ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,483, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Learning neural reflectance shaders from images" was invented by Benjamin Ummenhofer (Unterhaching, Germany), Shenlong Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanskar Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yixing Lao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kai Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephan Richter (Neubiberg, Germany) and Vladlen Koltun (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for learning neural reflectance shaders from images. A set of one or more machine learning models can be trained to optimize an illumination latent code and a set of refl...