Nvidia patents method to train image upscaling AI with fake flaws
Nvidia describes a technique for training neural networks to improve image resolution. The system creates low-quality images with specific artificial defects, asks the AI to enlarge them, and checks if the AI correctly removes those defects.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to train one or more neural networks. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are trained based, at least in part, on two or more versions of an image, wherein each of the two or more versions of the image are to be synthetically generated independently.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. One or more processors, comprising: circuitry to: add one or more synthetic rendering artifacts to one or more images to generate one or more modified images, wherein the one or more modified images are synthetically generated by a renderer; cause one or more neural networks to upsample the one or more modified images to generate one or more upsampled modified images, wherein the upsampled one or more modified images correspond to at least one output resolution that is a higher resolution than the resolution of the one or more modified images; compare the upsampled one or more modified images with one or more images of higher resolution than the one or more images to determine whether the one or more synthetic rendering artifacts are depicted in the upsampled one or more modified images; and cause weights of the one or more neural networks to be updated based, at least in part, on whether the upsampled one or more modified images depict the one or more synthetic rendering artifacts.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (Nvidia Corporation)
- Official title
- Training one or more neural networks using synthetic data
- Patent number
- US12770209B2
- Application number
- 17080503
- Filed
- Oct 26, 2020
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 25
Classified under
G06T 3/4046 Physics & computingG06T 3/4053 Physics & computingG06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 11/60 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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