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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Deqing Sun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Varun Jampani, Rockland, MA (US);
Gengshan Yang, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel Vlasic, Cambridge, MA (US);
Huiwen Chang, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Forrester H. Cole, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ce Liu, Cambridge, MA (US);
William Tafel Freeman, Acton, MA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing system and method can be used to render a 3D shape from one or more images. In particular, the present disclosure provides a general pipeline for learning articulated shape reconstruction from images (LASR). The pipeline can reconstruct rigid or nonrigid 3D shapes. In particular, the pipeline can automatically decompose non-rigidly deforming shapes into rigid motions near rigid-bones. This pipeline incorporates an analysis-by-synthesis strategy and forward-renders silhouette, optical flow, and color images which can be compared against the video observations to adjust the internal parameters of the model. By inverting a rendering pipeline and incorporating optical flow, the pipeline can recover a mesh of a 3D model from the one or more images input by a user.