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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Guilin Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Fitsum A. Reda, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kevin Shih, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ting-Chun Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Tao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bryan Catanzaro, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A neural network architecture is disclosed for performing image in-painting using partial convolution operations. The neural network processes an image and a corresponding mask that identifies holes in the image utilizing partial convolution operations, where the mask is used by the partial convolution operation to zero out coefficients of the convolution kernel corresponding to invalid pixel data for the holes. The mask is updated after each partial convolution operation is performed in an encoder section of the neural network. In one embodiment, the neural network is implemented using an encoder-decoder framework with skip links to forward representations of the features at different sections of the encoder to corresponding sections of the decoder.