Intel Corporation

Benjamin Ummenhofer

Vladlen Koltun

Stephan Richter

Kai Zhang

Yixing Lao

Sanskar Agrawal

Shenlong Wang

Om Ji Omer

Anirud Thyagharajan

Prashant Laddha

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 reflectance latent codes for an object within a set of input images. A shader can then be generated based on a machine learning model of the one or more machine learning models. The shader is configured to sample the illumination latent code and the set of reflectance latent codes for the object. A 3D representation of the object can be rendered using the generated shader.

Learning neural reflectance shaders from images

A computer model is trained to classify regions of a space (e.g., a pixel of an image or a voxel of a point cloud) according to a multi-label classification. To improve the model's accuracy, the model's self-confidence is determined with respect to its own predictions of regions in a training space. The self-confidence is determined based on the class predictions, such as a difference between the highest-predicted class and a second-highest-predicted class. When these are similar, it may reflect areas for potential improvement by focusing training on these low-confidence areas. Additional training may be performed by including modified training data in subsequent training iterations that focuses on low-confidence areas. As another example, additional training may be performed using the self-confidence to modify a classification loss used to refine parameters of the model.

Applying self-confidence in multi-label classification to model training

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Unterhaching, Germany

Benjamin Ummenhofer