US Patent Issued to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY on Oct. 14 for "Hair rendering system based on deep neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,128, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Hair rendering system based on deep neural network" was invented by Haimin Luo (Shanghai), Minye Wu (Shanghai), Lan Xu (Shanghai) and Jingyi Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deep neural network based hair rendering system is presented to model high frequency component of furry objects. Compared with existing approaches, the present method can generate photo-realistic rendering results. An acceleration method is applied in our framework, which can speed up training and rendering processes. In addition, a patch-based training scheme is introduced,...