Google Inc.

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Matthias Grundmann

Vivek Kwatra

Irfan Essa

Jianing Wei

Karthik Raveendran

Kenneth Conley

Sergey Ioffe

Marco Paglia

Jokubas M Zukerman

Reed Morse

Valentin Bazarevsky

Andrei Vakunov

Tingbo Hou

Adel Ahmadyan

Mei Han

Fan Zhang

Alexandra Ivanna Hawkins

Andrei Tkachenka

Yury Kartynnik

Matthew Stephen Steiner

Sharadh Ramaswamy

Shengyang Dai

Erik Murphy-Chutorian

John Patrick Flynn

Troy Chinen

Nicholas Butko

Christian Ingemar Falk

Florian Kriener

John Spiegel

Falk Sticken

Tom Binder

Steven Vandebogart

Nikolaos Trogkanis

Ingo Wehmeyer

Liangkai Zhang

Amanda Conway

Artsiom Ablavatski

Cheng Yong Yang

Iain Matthews

Keir Banks Mierle

Jessica Kate Hodgins

Ariel Shamir

Bryan Woods

Keith Schaefer

Sundeep Vaddadi

Ivan Grishchenko

Kihwan Kim

Konstantine Tsotsos

Leon Wong

Daniel Castro Chin

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for performing object detection and pose estimation in 3D from 2D images. Object detection can be performed by a machine-learned model configured to determine various object properties. Implementations according to the disclosure can use these properties to estimate object pose and size.

Systems and methods for object detection including pose and size estimation

The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating synthetic training data using augmented reality (AR) techniques. For example, images of a scene can be used to generate a three-dimensional mapping of the scene. The three-dimensional mapping may be associated with the images to indicate locations for positioning a virtual object. Using an AR rendering engine, implementations can generate an and orientation. The augmented image can then be stored in a machine learning dataset and associated with a label based on aspects of the virtual object.

AR-assisted synthetic data generation for training machine learning models

Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computing systems and methods for hand tracking using a machine-learned system for palm detection and key-point localization of hand landmarks. In particular, example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a multi-model hand tracking system that performs both palm detection and hand landmark detection. Given a sequence of image frames, for example, the hand tracking system can detect one or more palms depicted in each image frame. For each palm detected within an image frame, the machine-learned system can determine a plurality of hand landmark positions of a hand associated with the palm. The system can perform key-point localization to determine precise three-dimensional coordinates for the hand landmark positions. In this manner, the machine-learned system can accurately track a hand depicted in the sequence of images using the precise three-dimensional coordinates for the hand landmark positions.

Scalable real-time hand tracking

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for calibration-free instant motion tracking useful, for example, for rending virtual content in augmented reality settings. In particular, a computing system can iteratively augment image frames that depict a scene to insert virtual content at an anchor region within the scene, including situations in which the anchor region moves relative to the scene. To do so, the computing system can estimate, for each of a number of sequential image frames: a rotation of an image capture system that captures the image frames; and a translation of the anchor region relative to an image capture system, thereby providing sufficient information to determine where and at what orientation to render the virtual content within the image frame.

Calibration-free instant motion tracking for augmented reality

The technology disclosed herein includes a user interface for viewing and combining media items into a video. An example method includes presenting a user interface that displays media items in a first portion of the user interface; receiving user input in the first portion that comprises a selection of a first media item; upon receiving the user input, adding the first media item to a set of selected media items in a second portion of the user interface, and presenting a selectable control element in the second portion of the user interface, wherein the control element enables a user to initiate an operation pertaining to the creation of the video based on the set of selected media items, and creating the video based on video content of the set of selected media items.

Motion stills experience

A method includes receiving a video comprising images representing an object, and determining, using a machine learning model, based on a first image of the images, and for each respective vertex of vertices of a bounding volume for the object, first two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of the respective vertex. The method also includes tracking, from the first image to a second image of the images, a position of each respective vertex along a plane underlying the bounding volume, and determining, for each respective vertex, second 2D coordinates of the respective vertex based on the position of the respective vertex along the plane. The method further includes determining, for each respective vertex, (i) first three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of the respective vertex based on the first 2D coordinates and (ii) second 3D coordinates of the respective vertex based on the second 2D coordinates.

Object pose estimation and tracking using machine learning

The technology disclosed herein includes a user interface for viewing and combining media items into a video. An example method includes presenting a user interface that displays media items in a first portion of the user interface; receiving user input in the first portion that comprises a selection of a first media item; upon receiving the user input, adding the first media item to a set of selected media items and updating the user interface to comprise a control element and a second portion, wherein the first and second portions are concurrently displayed and are each scrollable along a different axis, and the second portion displays image content of the set and the control element enables a user to initiate the creation of the video based on the set of selected media items; and creating the video based on video content of the set of selected media items.

A computing system is disclosed including a convolutional neural configured to receive an input that describes a facial image and generate a facial object recognition output that describes one or more facial feature locations with respect to the facial image. The convolutional neural network can include a plurality of convolutional blocks. At least one of the convolutional blocks can include one or more separable convolutional layers configured to apply a depthwise convolution and a pointwise convolution during processing of an input to generate an output. The depthwise convolution can be applied with a kernel size that is greater than 3&#xd7;3. At least one of the convolutional blocks can include a residual shortcut connection from its input to its output.

Efficient convolutional neural networks and techniques to reduce associated computational costs

In a general aspect, a method can include receiving data defining an augmented reality (AR) environment including a representation of a physical environment, and changing tracking of an AR object within the AR environment between region-tracking mode and plane-tracking mode.

Hybrid placement of objects in an augmented reality environment

Example embodiments allow for fast, efficient determination of bounding box vertices or other pose information for objects based on images of a scene that may contain the objects. An artificial neural network or other machine learning algorithm is used to generate, from an input image, a heat map and a number of pairs of displacement maps. The location of a peak within the heat map is then used to extract, from the displacement maps, the two-dimensional displacement, from the location of the peak within the image, of vertices of a bounding box that contains the object. This bounding box can then be used to determine the pose of the object within the scene. The artificial neural network can be configured to generate intermediate segmentation maps, coordinate maps, or other information about the shape of the object so as to improve the estimated bounding box.

Real-time pose estimation for unseen objects

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Matthias Grundmann