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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2021
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Koki Nagano, Playa Vista, CA (US);
Eric Ryan Chan, Alameda, CA (US);
Sameh Khamis, Alameda, CA (US);
Shalini De Mello, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tero Tapani Karras, Helsinki, FI;
Orazio Gallo, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jonathan Tremblay, Redmond, WA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A single two-dimensional (2D) image can be used as input to obtain a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the 2D image. This is done by extracting features from the 2D image by an encoder and determining a 3D representation of the 2D image utilizing a trained 2D convolutional neural network (CNN). Volumetric rendering is then run on the 3D representation to combine features within one or more viewing directions, and the combined features are provided as input to a multilayer perceptron (MLP) that predicts and outputs color (or multi-dimensional neural features) and density values for each point within the 3D representation. As a result, single-image inverse rendering may be performed using only a single 2D image as input to create a corresponding 3D representation of the scene in the single 2D image.