Sony patents method to create 3D training data for eye-tracking models
Sony describes a method for generating training data by controlling a 3D model of a person in a virtual space. The system renders images of the model and pairs them with known correct data to help computer programs learn to estimate where a person is looking.
In the filing’s own words
The present technology relates to an information processing method and an information processing apparatus capable of improving the quality of a learning data set using a three-dimensional model by three-dimensional CG. An information processing apparatus controls a state of a three-dimensional model of a person in a three-dimensional virtual space and a rendering condition for rendering the three-dimensional model, and generates, on a basis of the state of the three-dimensional model and the rendering condition, input data including a three-dimensional model image that is an image obtained by rendering the three-dimensional model, and learning data including correct data regarding the three-dimensional model. The present technology can be applied to generation processing of a learning data set of a line-of-sight estimation model, for example.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing method comprising, by an information processing apparatus: controlling a state of a three-dimensional model of a person in a three-dimensional virtual space and a rendering condition for rendering the three-dimensional model; and generating, on the basis of the state of the three-dimensional model and the rendering condition, input data including a three-dimensional model image that is an image obtained by rendering the three-dimensional model, and learning data including correct data regarding the three-dimensional model.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS
- Publication number
- US20260330788A1
- Application number
- 19113847
- Filed
- Sep 11, 2023
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 19/20 Physics & computingG06T 7/0002 Physics & computingG06T 7/70 Physics & computingG06T 17/00 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30168 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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