Patent Grant
11797863
Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to machine learning techniques, in particular the synthesis or generation of data for training machine learning models.
Statistical models such as machine learning models are generally trained using large amounts of data. In the field of computer vision, the training data generally includes labeled images, which are used to train deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks, to perform computer vision tasks such as image classification and instance segmentation. However, manually collecting photographs of various scenes and labeling the photographs is time consuming and expensive. Some techniques for augmenting these training data sets include generating synthetic training data. For example, three-dimensional (3-D) computer graphics rendering engines (e.g., scanline rendering engines and ray tracing rendering engines) are capable of generating photorealistic two-dimensional (2-D) images of virtual environments of arrangements of 3-D models of objects that can be used for training deep learning models.
Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to machine learning techniques, in particular the synthesis or generation of data for training machine learning models. In particular, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to synthesizing images for training machine learning models to perform computer vision tasks on input images that are captured based on imaging modalities other than images of the intensity of visible light in a scene.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of generating synthetic images of virtual scenes includes: placing, by a synthetic data generator implemented by a processor and memory, three-dimensional (3-D) models of objects in a 3-D virtual scene; adding, by the synthetic data generator, lighting to the 3-D virtual scene, the lighting including one or more illumination sources; applying, by the synthetic data generator, imaging modality-specific materials to the 3-D models of objects in the 3-D virtual scene in accordance with a selected imaging modality, each of the imaging modality-specific materials including an empirical model; setting a scene background in accordance with the selected imaging modality; and rendering, by the synthetic data generator, a two-dimensional image of the 3-D virtual scene based on the selected imaging modality to generate a synthetic image in accordance with the selected imaging modality.
The empirical model may be generated based on sampled images captured of a surface of a material using an imaging system configured to capture images using the selected imaging modality, the sampled images may include images captured of the surface of the material from a plurality of different poses with respect to a normal direction of the surface of the material.
The selected imaging modality may be polarization and the imaging system includes a polarization camera.
The selected imaging modality may be thermal and the imaging system may include a thermal camera. The thermal camera may include a polarizing filter.
Each of the sampled images may be stored in association with the corresponding angle of its pose with respect to the normal direction of the surface of the material.
The sampled images may include: a first plurality of sampled images captured of the surface of the material illuminated by light having a first spectral profile; and a second plurality of sampled images captured of the surface of the material illuminated by light having a second spectral profile different from the first spectral profile.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by interpolating between two or more of the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a deep neural network trained on the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a generative adversarial network trained on the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a mathematical model generated based on the sampled images.
The method may further include applying style transfer to the synthetic image.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for generating tensors in polarization feature space for a 3-D virtual scene, includes: rendering, by a synthetic data generator implemented by a processor and memory, an image of surface normals of a 3-D virtual scene including a plurality of 3-D models of objects, the surface normals including an azimuth angle component and a zenith angle component; determining, by the synthetic data generator, for a surface of a 3-D model of an object of the 3-D virtual scene, a material of the object; and computing, by the synthetic data generator, the tensors in polarization feature space in accordance with the azimuth angle component and the zenith angle component of the surface normal, the tensors in polarization feature space including: a degree of linear polarization; and an angle of linear polarization at the surface of the object.
The method may further include: determining whether the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant; computing the tensors in polarization feature space based on specular polarization equations in response to determining that the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant; and computing the tensors in polarization feature space based on diffuse polarization equations in response to determining that the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant.
The method may further include: computing the tensors in polarization feature space based on diffuse polarization equations.
The method may further include applying style transfer to the tensors in polarization feature space.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for synthesizing a training data set based on generating a plurality of synthetic images generated in accordance with any of the above methods.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for training a machine learning model includes: generating a training data set in accordance with any of the above methods; and computing parameters of the machine learning model based on the training data set.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for generating synthetic images of virtual scenes includes: a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a synthetic data generator to: place three-dimensional (3-D) models of objects in a 3-D virtual scene; add lighting to the 3-D virtual scene, the lighting including one or more illumination sources; apply imaging modality-specific materials to the 3-D models of objects in the 3-D virtual scene in accordance with a selected imaging modality, each of the imaging modality-specific materials including an empirical model; set a scene background in accordance with the selected imaging modality; and render a two-dimensional image of the 3-D virtual scene based on the selected imaging modality to generate a synthetic image in accordance with the selected imaging modality.
The empirical model may be generated based on sampled images captured of a surface of a material using an imaging system configured to capture images using the selected imaging modality, and the sampled images may include images captured of the surface of the material from a plurality of different poses with respect to a normal direction of the surface of the material.
The selected imaging modality may be polarization and the imaging system may include a polarization camera.
The selected imaging modality may be thermal and the imaging system may include a thermal camera. The thermal camera may include a polarizing filter.
Each of the sampled images may be stored in association with the corresponding angle of its pose with respect to the normal direction of the surface of the material.
The sampled images may include: a first plurality of sampled images captured of the surface of the material illuminated by light having a first spectral profile; and a second plurality of sampled images captured of the surface of the material illuminated by light having a second spectral profile different from the first spectral profile.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by interpolating between two or more of the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a deep neural network trained on the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a generative adversarial network trained on the sampled images.
The empirical model may include a surface light field function computed by a mathematical model generated based on the sampled images.
The memory may further store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the synthetic data generator to apply style transfer to the synthetic image.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for generating tensors in polarization feature space for a 3-D virtual scene includes: a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to implement a synthetic data generator to: render an image of surface normals of a 3-D virtual scene including a plurality of 3-D models of objects, the surface normals including an azimuth angle component and a zenith angle component; determine for a surface of a 3-D model of an object of the 3-D virtual scene, a material of the object; and compute the tensors in polarization feature space in accordance with the azimuth angle component and the zenith angle component of the surface normal, the tensors in polarization feature space including: a degree of linear polarization; and an angle of linear polarization at the surface of the object.
The memory may further store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the synthetic data generator to: determine whether the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant; compute the tensors in polarization feature space based on specular polarization equations in response to determining that the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant; and compute the tensors in polarization feature space based on diffuse polarization equations in response to determining that the surface of the 3-D model of the object is specular dominant.
The memory may further store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the synthetic data generator to: compute the tensors in polarization feature space based on diffuse polarization equations.
The memory may further store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the synthetic data generator to: apply style transfer to the tensors in polarization feature space.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for synthesizing a training data set is configured to synthesize the training data set using the system of any of the above systems.
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for training a machine learning model includes: a processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a training data set generated by any of the above systems; and compute parameters of the machine learning model based on the training data set.
The accompanying drawings, together with the specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
In the following detailed description, only certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention are shown and described, by way of illustration. As those skilled in the art would recognize, the invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the specification.
Aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for synthesizing or generating data for training machine learning models for performing computer vision tasks on images captured based on modalities other than standard modalities such as color or monochrome cameras configured to capture images based on the intensity of visible light. Examples of other modalities include images captured based on polarized light (e.g., images captured with a polarizing filter or polarization filter in an optical path of the camera for capturing circularly and/or linearly polarized light), non-visible or invisible light (e.g., light in the infrared or ultraviolet ranges), and combinations thereof (e.g., polarized infrared light), however, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto and may be applied to other multi-spectral imaging techniques.
In more detail, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating synthetic images of objects in different imaging modalities for training a machine learning model to perform a computer vision task.
Generally, a computer vision system for computing segmentation maps that classify objects depicted in a scene may include a trained convolutional neural network that takes two-dimensional images (e.g., as captured by a color camera) as input and outputs segmentation maps based on those images. Such a convolutional neural network may be a pre-trained on an existing data set such as ImageNet (see, e.g., see, e.g., J. Deng, W. Dong, R. Socher, L.-J. Li, K. Li and L. Fei-Fei, ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009). However, these existing data sets may contain images that are not representative of the images that are expected to be encountered in the particular application of the computer vision system, and therefore these pre-trained models may have poor performance on the particular computer vision task that the computer vision system is intended to perform. For example, a computer vision system for a manufacturing environment is more likely to encounter images of tools, partially assembled products, manufacturing components, and the like, rather than images of people, animals, household objects, and outdoors environments that may be found in more “general purpose” data sets.
As such, “retraining” relates to updating the parameters (e.g., connection weights) of a pre-trained model based on additional training data from a particular target domain associated with the task to be performed by the re-trained model. Continuing the above example, labeled images of tools, partially assembled products, components, and the like from a particular manufacturing environment may be used as training data for retraining a pre-trained model (e.g., a pre-trained convolutional neural network) to improve its performance in detecting and classifying objects encountered in that manufacturing environment. However, manually collecting different images of typical scenes in that manufacturing environment and labeling these images based on their ground truth values (e.g., identifying pixels that correspond to different classes of objects) is generally a time consuming and expensive task.
As noted above, three-dimensional (3-D) rendering computer graphics software may be used to generate training data for training machine learning models for performing computer vision tasks. For example, existing 3-D models of those tools, partially assembled products, and manufacturing components may be arranged in a virtual scene in accordance with the variety of ways in which such objects may be encountered in the real-world (e.g., including lighting conditions and 3-D models of support surfaces and equipment in the environment). For example, partially assembled products may be placed on a 3-D model of a conveyor belt, components may be located in a parts bin, and tools may be placed on a tool bench and/or within a scene in the process of positioning a component within a partially assembled product. Accordingly, a 3-D computer graphics rendering system is used to generate photorealistic images of the range of typical arrangements of objects in a particular environment. These generated images can also be automatically labeled. In particular, when the particular 3-D models used to depict each of the different types of objects are already associated with class labels (e.g., screws of various sizes, pre-assembled components, products at various stages of assembly, particular types of tools, etc.), segmentation maps can be automatically generated (e.g., by mapping surfaces of objects to their particular class labels).
However, 3-D rendering computer graphics software systems are generally tailored for generating images that represent typical imaging modalities based on the intensity of visible light (e.g., the intensities of red, green, and blue light). Such 3-D rendering software, such as Blender® by the Blender Foundation, generally does not account for behaviors of electromagnetic radiation that may be invisible or otherwise negligible when rendering photorealistic scenes. Examples of these additional behaviors include the polarization of light (e.g., as polarized light interacts with transparent objects and reflective objects in a scene, as detected by a camera with a polarizing filter in its optical path), thermal or infrared radiation (e.g., as emitted by warm objects in a scene and as detected by a camera system sensitive to detect infrared light), ultraviolet radiation (e.g., as detected by a camera system sensitive to ultraviolet light), combinations thereof (e.g., polarization with thermal radiation, polarization with visible light, polarization with ultraviolet light, etc.), and the like.
Therefore, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for modeling the behavior of various materials when imaged based on polarization or other imaging modalities. The data (e.g., images) generated in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure may then be used as training data for training deep learning models such as deep convolutional neural networks to compute predictions based on imaging modalities other than standard imaging modalities (e.g., the intensity of visible light or light in a visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum).
As a motivating example, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in the context of generating synthetic images of objects captured through a polarizing filter (referred to herein as “polarization raw frames”), where these images may be used in training a deep neural network such as a convolutional neural network to perform a task based on polarization raw frames. However, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to generating synthetic polarization raw frames for training a convolutional neural network that takes polarization raw frames (or features extracted therefrom) as input data.
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, the model training system 7 and/or the synthetic data generator 40 are implemented using one or more electronic circuits configured to perform various operations as described in more detail below. Types of electronic circuits may include a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator (e.g., a vector processor, which may include vector arithmetic logic units configured efficiently perform operations common to neural networks, such dot products and softmax), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a digital signal processor (DSP), or the like. For example, in some circumstances, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are implemented in program instructions that are stored in a non-volatile computer readable memory where, when executed by the electronic circuit (e.g., a CPU, a GPU, an AI accelerator, or combinations thereof), perform the operations described herein to compute a segmentation map 20 from input polarization raw frames 18. The operations performed by the model training system 7 and the synthetic data generator 40 may be performed by a single electronic circuit (e.g., a single CPU, a single GPU, or the like) or may be allocated between multiple electronic circuits (e.g., multiple GPUs or a CPU in conjunction with a GPU). The multiple electronic circuits may be local to one another (e.g., located on a same die, located within a same package, or located within a same embedded device or computer system) and/or may be remote from one other (e.g., in communication over a network such as a local personal area network such as Bluetooth®, over a local area network such as a local wired and/or wireless network, and/or over wide area network such as the internet, such a case where some operations are performed locally and other operations are performed on a server hosted by a cloud computing service). One or more electronic circuits operating to implement the model training system 7 and the synthetic data generator 40 may be referred to herein as a computer or a computer system, which may include memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more electronic circuits, implement the systems and methods described herein.
For context,
A polarization camera 10 has a lens 12 with a field of view, where the lens 12 and the camera 10 are oriented such that the field of view encompasses the scene 1. The lens 12 is configured to direct light (e.g., focus light) from the scene 1 onto a light sensitive medium such as an image sensor 14 (e.g., a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor or charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor).
The polarization camera 10 further includes a polarizer or polarizing filter or polarization mask 16 placed in the optical path between the scene 1 and the image sensor 14. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, the polarizer or polarization mask 16 is configured to enable the polarization camera 10 to capture images of the scene 1 with the polarizer set at various specified angles (e.g., at 45° rotations or at 60° rotations or at non-uniformly spaced rotations).
As one example,
While the above description relates to some possible implementations of a polarization camera using a polarization mosaic, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto and encompass other types of polarization cameras that are capable of capturing images at multiple different polarizations. For example, the polarization mask 16 may have fewer than or more than four different polarizations, or may have polarizations at different angles (e.g., at angles of polarization of: 0°, 60° degrees, and 120° or at angles of polarization of 0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°, and 150°). As another example, the polarization mask 16 may be implemented using an electronically controlled polarization mask, such as an electro-optic modulator (e.g., may include a liquid crystal layer), where the polarization angles of the individual pixels of the mask may be independently controlled, such that different portions of the image sensor 14 receive light having different polarizations. As another example, the electro-optic modulator may be configured to transmit light of different linear polarizations when capturing different frames, e.g., so that the camera captures images with the entirety of the polarization mask set to, sequentially, to different linear polarizer angles (e.g., sequentially set to: 0 degrees; 45 degrees; 90 degrees; or 135 degrees). As another example, the polarization mask 16 may include a polarizing filter that rotates mechanically, such that different polarization raw frames are captured by the polarization camera 10 with the polarizing filter mechanically rotated with respect to the lens 12 to transmit light at different angles of polarization to image sensor 14.
A polarization camera may also refer to an array of multiple cameras having substantially parallel optical axes, such that each of the cameras captures images of a scene from substantially the same pose. The optical path of each camera of the array includes a polarizing filter, where the polarizing filters have different angles of polarization. For example, a two-by-two (2×2) array of four cameras may include one camera having a polarizing filter set at an angle of 0°, a second camera having a polarizing filter set at an angle of 45°, a third camera having a polarizing filter set at an angle of 90°, and a fourth camera having a polarizing filter set at an angle of 135°.
As a result, the polarization camera captures multiple input images 18 (or polarization raw frames) of the scene 1, where each of the polarization raw frames 18 corresponds to an image taken behind a polarization filter or polarizer at a different angle of polarization ϕpol (e.g., 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, or 135 degrees). Each of the polarization raw frames is captured from substantially the same pose with respect to the scene 1 (e.g., the images captured with the polarization filter at 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, or 135 degrees are all captured by a same polarization camera located at a same location and orientation), as opposed to capturing the polarization raw frames from disparate locations and orientations with respect to the scene. The polarization camera 10 may be configured to detect light in a variety of different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as the human-visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, red, green, and blue portions of the human-visible spectrum, as well as invisible portions of the electromagnetic spectrum such as infrared and ultraviolet.
Polarization Feature Representation Spaces
Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for extracting features from polarization raw frames, where these extracted features are used by the processing system 100 for the robust detection of optically challenging characteristics in the surfaces of objects. In contrast, comparative techniques relying on intensity images alone may fail to detect these optically challenging features or surfaces (e.g., comparing the intensity image of
The interaction between light and transparent objects is rich and complex, but the material of an object determines its transparency under visible light. For many transparent household objects, the majority of visible light passes straight through and a small portion (˜4% to ˜8%, depending on the refractive index) is reflected. This is because light in the visible portion of the spectrum has insufficient energy to excite atoms in the transparent object. As a result, the texture (e.g., appearance) of objects behind the transparent object (or visible through the transparent object) dominate the appearance of the transparent object. For example, when looking at a transparent glass cup or tumbler on a table, the appearance of the objects on the other side of the tumbler (e.g., the surface of the table) generally dominate what is seen through the cup. This property leads to some difficulties when attempting to detect surface characteristics of transparent objects such as glass windows and glossy, transparent layers of paint, based on intensity images alone:
Similarly, a light ray hitting the surface of an object may interact with the shape of the surface in various ways. For example, a surface with a glossy paint may behave substantially similarly to a transparent object in front of an opaque object as shown in
A light ray 410 hitting the image sensor 16 of a polarization camera 10 has three measurable components: the intensity of light (intensity image/I), the percentage or proportion of light that is linearly polarized (degree of linear polarization/DOLP/ρ), and the direction of that linear polarization (angle of linear polarization/AOLP/ϕ). These properties encode information about the surface curvature and material of the object being imaged, which can be used by the predictor 800 to detect transparent objects, as described in more detail below. In some embodiments, the predictor 800 can detect other optically challenging objects based on similar polarization properties of light passing through translucent objects and/or light interacting with multipath inducing objects or by non-reflective objects (e.g., matte black objects).
Therefore, some aspects of embodiments of the present invention relate synthesizing polarization raw frames that can be used to compute first tensors in one or more first representation spaces, which may include derived feature maps based on the intensity I, the DOLP ρ, and the AOLP ϕ. Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure also relate to directly synthesizing tensors in one or more representation spaces such as DOLP p and AOLP for use in training deep learning systems to perform computer vision tasks based on information regarding the polarization of light in a scene (and, in some embodiments, based on other imaging modalities such as thermal imaging and combinations of thermal and polarized imaging).
Measuring intensity I, DOLP ρ, and AOLP at each pixel requires 3 or more polarization raw frames of a scene taken behind polarizing filters (or polarizers) at different angles, ϕpol (e.g., because there are three unknown values to be determined: intensity I, DOLP ρ, and AOLP ϕ. For example, the FLIR® Blackfly® S Polarization Camera described above captures polarization raw frames with polarization angles ϕpol at 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, or 135 degrees, thereby producing four polarization raw frames Iϕpol, denoted herein as I0, I45, I90, and I135.
The relationship between Iϕpol and intensity I, DOLP ρ, and AOLP ϕ at each pixel can be expressed as:
Iϕpol=I(1+ρ cos(2(ϕ−ϕpol))) (1)
Accordingly, with four different polarization raw frames Iϕpol (I0, I45, I90, and I135), a system of four equations can be used to solve for the intensity I, DOLP ρ, and AOLP ϕ.
Shape from Polarization (SfP) theory (see, e.g., Gary A Atkinson and Edwin R Hancock. Recovery of surface orientation from diffuse polarization. IEEE transactions on image processing, 15(6):1653-1664, 2006.) states that the relationship between the refractive index (n), azimuth angle (θa) and zenith angle (θz) of the surface normal of an object and the and p components of the light ray coming from that object follow the following characteristics when diffuse reflection is dominant:
and when the specular reflection is dominant:
Note that in both cases ρ increases exponentially as θz increases and if the refractive index is the same, specular reflection is much more polarized than diffuse reflection.
Accordingly, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to applying SfP theory to generate synthetic raw polarization frames 18 and/or AOLP and DOLP images based on the shapes of surfaces (e.g., the orientation of surfaces) in a virtual environment.
Light rays coming from a transparent objects have two components: a reflected portion including reflected intensity Ir, reflected DOLP ρr, and reflected AOLP ϕr and the refracted portion including refracted intensity It, refracted DOLP ρt, and refracted AOLP ϕt. The intensity of a single pixel in the resulting image can be written as:
I=Ir+It (6)
When a polarizing filter having a linear polarization angle of ϕpol is placed in front of the camera, the value at a given pixel is:
Iϕpol=(1+ρr cos(2(ϕr−ϕpol)))+It(1+ρt cos(2(ϕt−ϕpol))) (7)
Solving the above expression for the values of a pixel in a DOLP ρ image and a pixel in an AOLP ϕ image in terms of Ir, ρr, ϕr, It, Pt, and ϕt:
Accordingly, equations (7), (8), and (9), above provide a model for forming first tensors 50 in first representation spaces that include an intensity image I, a DOLP image ρ, and an AOLP image ϕ according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, where the use of polarization images or tensor in polarization representation spaces (including DOLP image ρ and an AOLP image ϕ based on equations (8) and (9)) enables trained computer vision systems to reliably detect of optically challenging surface characteristics of objects that are generally not detectable by comparative systems that use only intensity I images as input.
In more detail, first tensors in polarization representation spaces (among the derived feature maps) such as the polarization images DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ can reveal surface characteristics of objects that might otherwise appear textureless in an intensity I domain. A transparent object may have a texture that is invisible in the intensity domain I because this intensity is strictly dependent on the ratio of Ir/It (see equation (6)). Unlike opaque objects where It=0, transparent objects transmit most of the incident light and only reflect a small portion of this incident light. As another example, thin or small deviations in the shape of an otherwise smooth surface (or smooth portions in an otherwise rough surface) may be substantially invisible or have low contrast in the intensity I domain (e.g., a domain in which polarization of light is not taken into account), but may be very visible or may have high contrast in a polarization representation space such as DOLP ρ or AOLP ϕ.
As such, one exemplary method to acquire surface topography is to use polarization cues in conjunction with geometric regularization. The Fresnel equations relate the AOLP and the DOLP ρ with surface normals. These equations can be useful for anomaly detection by exploiting what is known as polarization patterns of the surface. A polarization pattern is a tensor of size [M, N, K] where M and N are horizontal and vertical pixel dimensions, respectively, and where K is the polarization data channel, which can vary in size. For example, if circular polarization is ignored and only linear polarization is considered, then K would be equal to two, because linear polarization has both an angle and a degree of polarization (AOLP ϕ and DOLP ρ). Analogous to a Moire pattern, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the feature extraction module 700 extracts a polarization pattern in polarization representation spaces (e.g., AOLP space and DOLP space). In the example characterization output 20 shown in
While the preceding discussion provides specific examples of polarization representation spaces based on linear polarization in the case of using a polarization camera having one or more linear polarizing filters to capture polarization raw frames corresponding to different angles of linear polarization and to compute tensors in linear polarization representation spaces such as DOLP and AOLP, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto. For example, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, a polarization camera includes one or more circular polarizing filters configured to pass only circularly polarized light, and where polarization patterns or first tensors in circular polarization representation space are further extracted from the polarization raw frames. In some embodiments, these additional tensors in circular polarization representation space are used alone, and in other embodiments they are used together with the tensors in linear polarization representation spaces such as AOLP and DOLP. For example, a polarization pattern including tensors in polarization representation spaces may include tensors in circular polarization space, AOLP, and DOLP, where the polarization pattern may have dimensions [M, N, K], where K is three to further include the tensor in circular polarization representation space.
The use of polarization cameras to detect the presence and shape of optically challenging objects and surfaces is described in more detail, for example, in PCT Patent Application No. US/2020/048604, filed on Aug. 28, 2020 and in PCT Patent Application No. US/2020/051243, filed on Sep. 17, 2020, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated by reference herein. Such computer vision systems may be trained to perform computer vision tasks on polarization data based on training data generated in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. In some embodiments, these computer vision systems use machine learning models such as deep neural networks (e.g., convolutional neural networks) to perform the computer vision tasks, where the deep learning models are configured to take, as input, polarization raw frames and/or features in polarization representation spaces.
Simulating the physics of polarization for different materials is a complex task requiring an understanding of the material properties, the spectral profile and polarization parameters of the illumination used, and the angle at which the reflected light is observed by the observer. To truly simulate the physics of light polarization and its impact on the illumination of objects would not only be a complex task but would also be an intensely compute intensive task, such as by applying a complex forward model that typically produces highly inaccurate (unrealistic) images. Accordingly, various comparative 3-D computer graphics systems typically do not accurately model the physics of light polarization and its impact on the illumination of objects, and therefore are not capable of synthesizing or rendering images of virtual environments in a manner that realistically represents how a corresponding real environment would appear if imaged with a camera with a polarizing filter in its optical path (e.g., a polarization camera). As such, comparative techniques for generating synthetic data for training computer vision systems that operate on standard imaging modalities (such as visible light images without polarizing filters) are generally incapable of generating training data for training computer vision systems that operate on other imaging modalities (e.g., polarization cameras, thermal cameras, and the like).
As discussed above, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating or synthesizing data for training machine learning models to take, as input, data captured using imaging modalities other than images captured by a standard camera (e.g., a camera configured to capture the intensity of visible light without the use of filters such as polarizing filters), which will be referred to herein as multimodal images or plenoptic images. The term “multimodal” refers to the plenoptic theory of light, where each dimension of the plenoptic domain (e.g., wavelength, polarization, angle, etc.) is an example of a modality of light. Accordingly, multimodal or plenoptic imaging includes, but is not limited to, the concurrent use of multiple imaging modalities. For example, the term “multimodal” may be used herein to refer to a single imaging modality, where that single imaging modality is a modality different from the intensity of visible light without the use of filters such as polarizing filters. Polarization raw frames captured by one or more polarization cameras and/or tensors in polarization representation spaces are one example of a class of inputs in a multimodal or plenoptic imaging modality (e.g., using multimodal imaging or plenoptic imaging).
Generally, various aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to four techniques may be used separately or in combination as part of a pipeline for generating synthetic training data in accordance with multimodal or plenoptic imaging modalities such as a polarized imaging modality. These techniques include: domain randomization, texture mapping, normal mapping, and style transfer, and will be discussed in more detail below.
In operation 610, the synthetic data generator 40 places 3-D models of objects in a virtual scene. In the context of generating synthetic images of scenes in a manufacturing environment, 3-D models of objects may be readily available from computer aided design (CAD) models of components and partially or fully assembled manufactured products. These CAD models may have previously been produced in the product design phase and may be obtained from, for example, the vendor of the component (e.g., from the vendor who supplied the components to the manufacturer), publicly available information (e.g., data sheets), or from internal product designers employed by the manufacturer. In some circumstances the CAD models may be manually generated based on specifications of a component.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the 3-D models of objects are placed in a virtual scene in a manner resembling the arrangement of those objects as they would be expected to be encountered for the particular computer vision task that the machine learning model will be trained to perform.
In the above example of computer vision in a manufacturing context, one task is to perform instance segmentation on a bin of components, where the components may be homogeneous (e.g., all the components in the bin are the same, such as a bin of springs or screws) or heterogeneous (e.g., a mix of different types of components, such as screws of different sizes or screws mixed with matching nuts). The objects may be randomly arranged within the bin, where the components may be oriented in many different directions in the bin, and where, in a bin of heterogeneous components, the different types of components are mixed together, as opposed to being separated in different parts of the bin. A computer vision system may be trained to compute a segmentation map of the bin, to identify the location and orientation of individual components within the bin (and, in the case of a bin of heterogenous components, the types of the objects). This segmentation map can then be used by an actuator system, such that a robotic arm, to pick components out of the bin and add the picked components to a partially assembled product.
Accordingly, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the synthetic data generator 40 generates a scene of components in a bin by placing a 3-D model of a virtual bin in a scene, and dropping 3-D models of components into the virtual bin, as simulated using a physics simulation engine, such as a physics engine incorporated into a 3-D computer graphics rendering system. For example, the Blender® 3-D rendering software includes a physics system that simulates various physical real-world phenomena such as the movement, collision, and potential deformation of rigid bodies, cloth, soft bodies, fluids, and the like, as affected by gravity or other forces. Accordingly, a rigid body simulation may be used for simulating the dropping of rigid components (e.g., screws, bolts, relatively stiff springs) into a rigid virtual bin, and a soft body simulation may be used for elastic or deformable components (e.g., string, wire, plastic sheeting, etc.) into a rigid virtual bin.
In more detail, a variety of difference scenes representing different potential states of the bin may be generated, such as by dropping various numbers of instances of the 3-D models of the components into a virtual bin. For example, if a typical bin has a maximum capacity of 1,000 screws, various scenes can be generated by dropping 1,000 screws, 900 screws, 500 screws, 100 screws, and 10 screws into a virtual bin to generate different scenes representing different potential fullness states of the virtual bin. In addition, multiple scenes may be generated for any given number of screws (or the number of screws may be randomized between the generation of different scenes), where the arrangement of components within the bin is also randomized, such as by dropping components into the bin, one at a time, from different random locations above the bin.
Accordingly, in operation 610, the synthetic data generator 40 generates a scene containing an arrangement of representative objects.
In operation 630, the synthetic data generator 40 adds lighting to the virtual scene generated in operation 610. In particular, the synthetic data generator 40 adds one or more light sources to the virtual scene, where the light sources illuminate part or all of the surfaces of the objects in the bin. In some embodiments, the position of the one or more light sources is randomized, and multiple scenes are generated with light sources in different locations (e.g., different angles and distances) relative to the bin of parts in order to improve the robustness of the training. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the virtual lighting includes virtual light sources that are representative of the light sources that would be found in environments in which the computer vision system is trained to operate. Examples of potential representative light sources include different color temperatures corresponding to, for example, incandescent lights, fluorescent lights, light emitting diode (LED) bulbs, natural light from a simulated window in the environment, and other forms of lighting technology, where the shape of the virtual lights (e.g., the direction of the rays emitted by the lights) may be in a range from direct light to diffuse light. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the character of the light (e.g., color temperature and shape) is also randomized to generate different scenes with different types of lighting.
In operation 650, the synthetic data generator 40 applies modality-specific materials to the objects in the 3-D virtual scene. For example, in the case of generating synthesized polarization imaging data, polarization-specific materials are applied to the objects in the virtual scene, whereas in the case of generating synthesized thermal imaging data, thermal imaging-specific materials may be applied to the objects in the virtual scene. For the sake of illustration, polarization-specific materials will be described in detail herein, but embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto and may also be applied to generating and applying materials specific to multimodal imaging modalities and/or plenoptic imaging modalities.
Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to domain randomization, in which the material appearance of objects in a scene are randomized beyond the typical appearance of the objects. For example, in some embodiments, a large number of materials with random colors (e.g., thousands of different materials of different, randomly selected colors) are applied to the different objects in the virtual scene. In a real-world environment, the objects in a scene generally have well-defined colors (e.g., rubber washers generally all look matte black and screws may be particular shades of shiny black, matte black, gold, or shiny metal). However, real-world objects can often have different appearances due to changes in lighting conditions, such as the color temperature of lights, reflections, specular highlights, and the like. Accordingly, applying randomization to the colors of the materials applied to the objects when generating training data expands the domain of the training data to also encompass unrealistic colors, thereby increasing diversity in the training data for training a more robust machine learning model that is capable of making accurate predictions (e.g., more accurate instance segmentation maps) in a wider variety of real-world conditions.
Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to performing texture mapping to generate models of materials that are dependent on one or more parameters (parameterized materials) in accordance with the imaging modality. For example, as discussed above, the appearance of a given surface in a scene, as imaged by a polarization camera system, may change based on the properties of the material of the surface, the spectral profile and polarization parameters of the illumination source or illumination sources (light sources) in the scene, the incident angle of light onto the surface, and the viewpoint angle of the observer (e.g., the polarization camera system). As such, simulating the physics of polarization for different materials is a complex and computationally-intensive task.
As such, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to emulating the physics of various imaging modalities based on empirical data, such as real-world images captured of real-world materials. In more detail, an imaging system implementing the particular imaging modality of interest (e.g., a polarization camera system) is used to collect sample images from an object made of the particular material of interest. In some embodiments, the collected sample images are used to compute an empirical model of the material, such as its surface light-field function (e.g., a bi-directional reflectance density function or BRDF).
In operation 850, an imaging system is used to capture images of the surface 702 of the object from multiple poses with respect to the normal direction of the surface. In the embodiment shown in
As discussed above, a polarization camera system 710 is generally configured to capture polarization raw frames with polarization filters at different angles (e.g., with a polarization mosaic having four different angles of polarization in the optical path of a single lens and sensor system, with an array of four cameras, each of the cameras having a linear polarization filter at a different angle, with a polarizing filter set at a different angle for different frames captured at different times from the same pose, or the like).
In operation 870, the images captured by the imaging system are stored in with the relative poses of the camera with respect to the normal direction of the surface (e.g., the observer angle β). For example, the observer angle may be stored in the metadata associated with the images and/or the images may be indexed, in part, based on the observer angle β. In some embodiments, the images may be indexed by parameters which include: observer angle β (or angle of camera position with respect to surface normal), material type, and illumination type.
Accordingly, in the arrangement shown in
Each of these perspectives or poses 712 gives a different polarization signal due to the nature of the physics of polarization. Accordingly, by capturing images of the surface 702 from different observer angles, a model of the BRDF of the material can be estimated based on interpolating between the images captured with the physical illumination source 704 at one or more closest corresponding incident angles α by the camera system at the one or more poses 712 having closest corresponding observer angles β.
While the embodiment of
Similarly, in some embodiments, the pose of the physical illumination source 704 with respect to the surface 702 is modified, such that rays of light emitted from the physical illumination source 704 are incident on the surface 702 at different angles α, where multiple images of the surface are similarly captured by the polarization camera system 710 from different poses 712.
The sampling rates of the different angles (e.g., the incident angle α and the observer or polarization camera system angle β) can be chosen such that intermediate perspectives can be interpolated (e.g., bilinearly interpolated) without significant loss of realism. In various embodiments of the present disclosure, the spacing of the intervals may depend on physical characteristics of the imaging modality, where some imaging modalities exhibit more angle sensitivity than others, and therefore high accuracy may be possible with fewer poses (spaced more widely apart) for modalities that are less angle-sensitive, whereas modalities having higher angle-sensitivity may use larger numbers of poses (spaced more closely together). For example, in some embodiments, when capturing polarization raw frames for a polarization imaging modality, the poses 712 of the polarization camera system 710 are set at interval angles of approximately five degrees (5°) apart, and the images of the surface 702 may also be captured with the physical illumination source 704 at various positions, similarly spaced at angles of approximately five degrees (5°) apart.
In some circumstances, the appearance of a material under the imaging modality of the empirical model is also dependent on the type of illumination source, such as incandescent lights, fluorescent lights, light emitting diode (LED) bulbs, sunlight, and therefore parameters of the illumination source or illumination sources used to light the real-world scene are included as parameters of the empirical model. In some embodiments, different empirical models are trained for different illumination sources (e.g., one model of a material under natural lighting or sunlight and another model of the material under fluorescent lighting).
Referring back to
In operation 690, the synthetic data generator 40 renders the 3-D scene based on the specified imaging modality (e.g., polarization, thermal, etc.) using one or more of the empirically derived, modality-specific models of materials. Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to rendering images based on an empirical model of a material according to one embodiment of the present disclosure. The empirical model of the material may be developed as discussed above, based on samples collected from images captured of real-world objects made of the material of interest.
Generally, a 3-D computer graphics rendering engine generates 2-D renderings of virtual scenes by computing the color of each pixel in the output image in accordance with the color of a surface of the virtual scene that is depicted by that pixel. For example, in a ray tracing rendering engine, a virtual ray of light is emitted from the virtual camera into the virtual scene (in reverse of the typical path of light in the real world), where the virtual ray of light interacts with the surfaces of 3-D models of objects in the virtual scene. These 3-D models are typically represented using geometric shapes such as meshes of points that define flat surfaces (e.g., triangles), where these surfaces may be assigned materials that describe how the virtual ray of light interacts with the surface, such as reflection, refraction, scattering, dispersion, and other optical effects, as well as a texture that represents the color of the surface (e.g., the texture may be a solid color or may be, for example, a bitmap image that is applied to the surface). The path of each virtual ray of light is followed (or “traced”) through the virtual scene until it reaches a light source in the virtual scene (e.g., a virtual light fixture) and the accumulated modifications of the textures encountered along the path from the camera to the light source are combined with the characteristics of the light source (e.g., color temperature of the light source) to compute the color of the pixel. This general process may be modified as understood by those skilled in the art, such as performing anti-aliasing (or smoothing) by tracing multiple rays through different parts of each pixel and computing the color of the pixel based on a combination (e.g., average) of the different colors computed by tracing the different rays interacting with the scene.
In more detail, the embodiment of
In operation 910, the synthetic data generator 40 (e.g., running a 3-D computer graphics rendering engine) determines a normal direction of the given surface (e.g., with respect to a global coordinate system). In operation 930, the synthetic data generator 40 determines the material of the surface of the object as assigned to the surface as part of the design of the virtual scene.
In operation 950, the synthetic data generator 40 determines an observer angle β of the surface, e.g., based on a direction from which the ray arrived at the surface (e.g., if the surface is the first surface reached by the ray from the camera, then the angle from the virtual camera to the surface, otherwise the angle from which the ray arrived at the surface from another surface in the virtual scene). In some embodiments, in operation 950, the incident angle α is also determined, based on the angle at which the ray leaves the surface (e.g., in a direction toward a virtual light source in the scene, due to the reversal of ray directions during ray tracing). In some circumstances, the incident angle α depends on characteristics of the material determined in operation 930, such as whether the material is transparent, reflective, refractive, diffuse (e.g., matte), or combinations thereof.
In operations 970 and 990, the synthetic data generator 40 configures a model of the material based on the observer angle β (and, if applicable, the incident angle α and other conditions, such as the spectral profile or polarization parameters of illumination sources in the scene) and computes a color of the pixel based, in part, on the configured model of the material. The model of the material may be retrieved from a collection or data bank of models of different standard materials (e.g., models materials have been empirically generated based on types of materials expected to be depicted in virtual scenes generated by the synthetic data generator 40 for generating training data for a particular application or usage scenario, such as materials of components used in manufacturing a particular electronic device in the case of computer vision for supporting robotics in manufacturing the electronic device), where the models are generated based on images of real materials captured as described above in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, in operation 930, the synthetic data generator 40 may determine that the surface of the object in the virtual scene is made of black rubber, in which case a model of a material generated from captured images of a real surface made of black rubber is loaded and configured in operation 970.
In some circumstances, the virtual scene includes objects having surfaces made of materials that are not represented in the data bank or collection of models of materials. Accordingly, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to simulating the appearance of materials that do not have exact or similar matches in the data bank of models of materials by interpolating between the predictions made by different real models. In some embodiments, the existing materials are represented in an embedding space based on a set of parameters characterizing the material. More formally, interpretable material embeddings M, such that F(Mglass, θout, ϕout, x, y) would give the polarized surface light field for glass with observer angle β represented by (θout, ϕout), and at a location (x, y) on the surface (mapped to (u, v) coordinate space on the 3-D surface), and a similar embedding may be performed for another material such as rubber F (Mrubber, θout, ϕout, x, y). This embedding of the materials in embedding space can then be parameterized in an interpretable way using, for example, beta variational autoencoders (VAEs) and then interpolated to generate new materials that are not based directly on empirically collected samples, but, instead, are interpolations between multiple different models that were separately constructed based on their own empirically collected samples. The generation of additional materials in this way further extends the domain randomization of synthetic training data generated in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure and improves the robustness of deep learning models trained based on this synthetic data.
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to different ways the model of the material may be implemented.
In various embodiments of the present disclosure, the model representing the surface-light field function or BRDF of the material is represented using, for example, a deep learning based BRDF function (e.g., based on a deep neural network such as a convolutional neural network), a mathematically modeled BRDF function (e.g., a set of one or more closed-form equations or one or more open-form equations that can be solved numerically), or a data-driven BRDF function that uses linear interpolation.
In operation 970, the synthetic data generator 40 configures a model of the material identified in operation 950 based on the current parameters, such as the incident angle α and the observer angle β. In the case of a data-driven BRDF function using linear interpolation, in operation 970, the synthetic data generator 40 retrieves images of the material identified in operation 950 that are closest in parameter space to the parameters of the current ray. In some embodiments, the materials are indexed (e.g., stored in a database or other data structure) and accessible in accordance with the material type, the illumination type, the incident angle of the light, and the angle of the camera with respect to the surface normal of the material (e.g., the observer angle). However, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to the parameters listed above, and other parameters may be used, depending on the characteristics of the imaging modality. For example, for some materials, the incident angle and/or the illumination type may have no effect on the appearance of the material, and therefore these parameters may be omitted and need not be determined as part of method 900.
Accordingly, in the case of a data-driven BRDF function with linear interpolation, in operation 970, the synthetic data generator 40 retrieves one or more images that are closest to the given parameters of the current ray associated with the current pixel being rendered. For example, the observer angle may be at 53° from the surface normal of the surface of the object, and samples of the real-world material may include images captured at observer angles spaced 5° apart, in this example, images captured at 50° and at 55° with respect to the surface normal of the real-world object made of the material of interest. Accordingly, the images of the real-world material that were captured at 50° and 55° would be retrieved (in circumstances where additional parameters are used, these parameters, such as incident angle and illumination type, are further identify particular images to be retrieved).
Continuing the example of a data-driven BRDF function with linear interpolation, operation 990, the synthetic data generator 40 computes a color of the surface for the pixel based on the closest images. In circumstances where there is only one matching image (e.g., if observer angle in the virtual scene matches an observer angle of one of the sampled images), then the sampled image is used directly for computing the color of the surface. In circumstances where there are multiple matching images, the synthetic data generator 40 interpolates the colors of the multiple images. For example, in some embodiments, linear interpolation is used to interpolate between the multiple images. More specifically, if the observer angle is between four different sample images that have different observer angles in the azimuthal angle with respect to the surface normal and polar angle with respect to an incident angle of the illumination source, then bilinear interpolation may be used to interpolate between the four images along the azimuthal and polar directions. As another example, if the appearance of the material is further dependent on incident angle, then further interpolation may be performed based on images captured at different incident angles (along with interpolating between images captured at different observer angles for each of the different incident angles). Accordingly, in operation 990, a color of the surface of the scene is computed for the current pixel based on combining one or more images captured of real-world materials.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure where the model is a deep learning network, a surface light field function of the material is implemented with a model includes training a deep neural network to predict the value of a bi-directional reflectance function directly from a set of parameters. In more detail, the images captured of a real material from a plurality of different poses, as discussed above, for example, with respect to
In some embodiments of the present disclosure where the model is a deep learning network, a surface light field function of the material is implemented with a model includes one or more conditional generative adversarial networks (see, e.g., Goodfellow, Ian, et al. “Generative adversarial nets.” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2014.). Each conditional generative adversarial network may be trained to generate images of a material based on a random input and one or more conditions, where the conditions include the current parameters of the viewing of a surface (e.g., observer angle incident angle α of each illumination source, polarization states of each illumination source, and material properties of the surface). According to some embodiments, a discriminator is trained in an adversarial manner to determine, based on an input image and a set of conditions associated with the image, whether the input image was a real image captured under the given conditions or generated by the conditional generator conditioned based on the set of conditions. By alternatingly retraining the generator to generate images that can “fool” the discriminator and training the discriminator to discriminate between generated images and real images, the generator is trained to generate realistic images of materials captured under various capture conditions (e.g., at different observer angles), thereby enabling the trained generator to represent the surface light-field function of the material. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, different generative adversarial networks are trained for different conditions for the same material, such as for different types of illumination sources, different polarization states of the illumination sources, and the like. In these embodiments, a model is configured in operation 970 by, if there are multiple conditional generative adversarial networks (GANs) associated with the model, selecting a conditional GAN from a plurality of conditional GANs associated with the model (e.g., selected based on matching parameters of the virtual scene with parameters of the data used to train the deep neural network, such as parameters of an illumination source) and supplying the parameters of the virtual scene as the conditions of the conditional GAN, such as the observer angle β the incident angle α, and the like. In operation 990, the synthesized data generator 40 computes the color of the surface of the virtual object from the configured model by forward propagating through the conditional GAN to compute a color at the output (e.g., a synthesized image of the surface of the object based on the current parameters), where the computed color is the color of the surface of the virtual scene, as generated by the conditional GAN of the configured model.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the surface light field function is modeled using a closed-form mathematically derived bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) configured by the empirically collected samples (e.g., pictures or photographs) of the real material, as captured from different angles, such as in accordance with the method described with respect to
In some embodiments, virtual objects made of multiple materials that are either bi-modal or multimodal would have a similar set of images for each type of material used in the virtual object in question. The appearances of the different materials are then combined in the final rendering of the image (e.g., additively combined in accordance with weights associated with each material in the virtual model). In some embodiments, this same approach of combining multiple materials is applied to multi-layered materials such as transparent coatings on shiny materials, and the like. In some embodiments, multi-layered materials are modeled by separately sampling (e.g., capturing images of) the multi-layered material.
The end effect of the rendering process using an empirical model of materials according to embodiments of the present disclosure is that the final rendering has an emulated polarization signal that is close to the real polarization signal in a real environment. The accuracy of the empirical model in rendering the materials depicted in the virtual environment depends on how closely the conditions of the virtual environment match the conditions under which samples were captured of the real-world material (e.g., how closely the spectral profile of the illumination source in the virtual scene matched the real-world illumination source, how closely the observer angles in the virtual scene matched the observer angles used when performing sampling, and the like).
As noted above, while aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure are described herein in the context of simulating or emulating the appearance of polarization, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto. The appearance of materials under multimodal imaging modalities and/or plenoptic imaging modalities, such as thermal, thermal with polarization, and the like, can also be captured in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the behavior of materials in a thermal imaging modality (e.g., infrared imaging) can similarly be modeled by capturing images of a material from multiple poses using a thermal camera in an arrangement similar to that shown in
Accordingly, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for generating synthetic image data of virtual scenes as they would appear under various imaging modalities such as polarization imaging and thermal imaging, by rendering images of the virtual scenes using empirical models of materials in the virtual scene. In some embodiments, these empirical models may include images captured of real-world objects using one or more imaging modalities such as polarization imaging and thermal imaging. These synthetic image data can then be used to train machine learning models to operate on image data captured by imaging systems using these imaging modalities.
Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating synthetic data relating to image features that would typically be generated from imaging data. As a specific example, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating synthetic features or tensors in polarization representation spaces (e.g., in degree of linear polarization or DOLP ρ and angle of linear polarization or AOLP ϕ). As discussed above, shape from polarization (SfP) provides a relationship between the DOLP ρ and the AOLP ϕ and the refractive index (n), azimuth angle (θa) and zenith angle (θz) of the surface normal of an object.
Accordingly, some aspects of embodiments relate to generating a synthetic degree of linear polarization or DOLP ρ and angle of linear polarization or AOLP ϕ for surfaces of a virtual scene that are visible to the virtual camera based on the refractive index n, azimuth angle (θa) and zenith angle (θz) of the surface of the virtual scene, all of which are known parameters of the virtual 3-D scene.
In some embodiments, it is assumed that all of the surfaces are diffuse, and therefore operations 1050 and 1070 can be omitted and the synthetic DOLP ρ and AOLP are computed based on the shape from polarization equations (2) and (3) for the diffuse case.
In some embodiments, the synthesized DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ data are rendered into color images by applying a colormap such as the “viridis” colormap or the “Jet” colormap (see, e.g., Liu, Yang, and Jeffrey Heer. “Somewhere over the rainbow: An empirical assessment of quantitative colormaps.” Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018.). These color mapped versions of the synthesized tensors in polarization space may be more easily supplied as input for retraining a pre-trained machine learning model such as convolutional neural network. In some embodiments, when synthesizing DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ data, random colormaps are applied to the various synthesized data such that the synthesized training data set includes color images representing DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ data in a variety of different colormaps, such that, at inference time, the network will be able to perform predictions without regard to the particular colormap used to encode the real DOLP ρ and AOLP data. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the same colormap is applied to all of the synthetic DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ data (or a first colormap is used for DOLP ρ and a second, different colormap is used for AOLP ϕ), and at inference time, colormaps are applied to the extracted tensors in polarization representation space to match the synthetic training data (e.g., the same first colormap is used for encoding the DOLP ρ extracted from the captured real polarization raw frames and the same second colormap is used for encoding AOLP ϕ extracted from the captured real polarization raw frames).
Accordingly, some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to synthesizing features in representation spaces specific to particular imaging modalities, such by synthesizing DOLP ρ and AOLP ϕ in polarization representation spaces for a polarization imaging modality.
Some aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to combinations of the above techniques for generating synthetic images for training machine learning models.
In addition, the training data set may include images generated using models of materials generated by interpolating between different empirically generated models, as parameterized in embedding space, as discussed above.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the images generated in accordance with (1) domain randomization, (2) texture mapping, and (3) normal mapping are further processed by applying style transfer or other filter to the generated image in operations 1120, 1122, and 1124, respectively, before adding the image to the training data set. Applying style transfer causes images that appear somewhat different, as generated using the three techniques described above, to have a more consistent appearance. In some embodiments, the style transfer process transforms the synthesized input images to appear more similar to an image captured based on the imaging modality of interest (e.g., causing images generated using (1) domain randomization and feature maps generated using (3) normal mapping to appear more like polarization raw frames) or by causing the synthesized input images to appear more artificial, such as by applying an unrealistic painterly style to the input images (e.g., causing images generated using (1) domain randomization, (2) renderings using texture mapping, and feature maps generated using (3) normal mapping to appear like a painting made with a paintbrush on canvas).
In some embodiments, a neural style transfer network is trained and used to perform the style transfer in operation 1122 on the images selected for the training data set, such as SytleGAN (see, e.g., Karras, Tero, et al. “Analyzing and improving the image quality of stylegan.” Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2020.) for complex global style transfers; patched based networks (see, e.g., Chen, Tian Qi, and Mark Schmidt. “Fast patch-based style transfer of arbitrary style.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.04337 (2016).) for local style transfers; and networks using domain adaptation (see, e.g., Dundar, Aysegul, et al. “Domain stylization: A strong, simple baseline for synthetic to real image domain adaptation.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09384 (2018).). As a result, all of the images in the training data set may have a similar style or appearance regardless of the method by which the images were obtained (e.g., whether through (1) domain randomization, (2) texture mapping, (3) normal mapping, or other sources such as real images of objects as captured using an imaging system implementing the modality of interest, such as polarization imaging or thermal imaging), as transformed by a style transfer operation.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the images for the training data set are sampled from the synthesized data sets (1), (2), and (3) based on hard example mining (see, e.g., Smirnov, Evgeny, et al. “Hard example mining with auxiliary embeddings.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 2018.) Using hard example mining to sample the synthesized data sets can improve the efficiency of the training process by reducing the size of the training set to remove substantially redundant images that would not have much impact on the training process while keeping the “hard examples” that have more of an impact on the resulting trained model.
As briefly mentioned above, when generating training data for supervised learning, the synthetic data generator 40 also automatically generates labels (e.g., desired outputs) for the synthesized images. For example, when generating training data for training a machine learning model to perform an image classification task, the generated label for a given image may include the classes of the objects depicted in the image. These classification label may be generated by identifying each unique type of object that is visible in the virtual scene. As another example, when generating training data for training a machine learning model to perform an instance segmentation task, the generated label may include a segmentation map where each instance of each object is uniquely identified (e.g., with a different instance identifier) along with its class (e.g., where objects of the same type have the same class identifier). For example, a segmentation map may be generated by tracing rays from the camera into the virtual scene, where each ray may intersect with some first surface of the virtual scene. Each pixel of the segmentation map is labeled accordingly based on the instance identifier and class identifier of the object containing the surface that was struck by the ray emitted from the camera through the pixel.
As discussed above, and referring to
Accordingly, the training data 5 including the synthesized data 42 is used to train or retrain a machine learning model 30 to perform a computer vision task based on a particular imaging modality. For example, synthetic data in accordance with a polarization imaging modality may be used to retrain a convolutional neural network that may have been pre-trained to perform instance segmentation based on standard color images to perform instance segmentation based on polarization input features.
In deployment, a trained model 32 trained based on training data generated in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure is then configured to take input similar to the training data such as polarization raw frames and/or tensors in polarization representation spaces (where these input images are further modified by the same style transfer, if any, that was applied when generating the training data) to generate predicted outputs such as segmentation maps.
While some embodiments of the present disclosure are described herein with respect to a polarization imaging modality, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto and include with multimodal imaging modalities and/or plenoptic imaging modalities such as thermal imaging, thermal imaging with polarization (e.g., with a polarizing filter), and ultraviolet imaging. In these embodiments using different modalities, real-world image samples captured from real-world materials using imaging systems implementing those modalities are used to generate models of materials as they would appear under those imaging modalities, and the surface light field functions of the materials with respect to those modalities are modeled as described above (e.g., using a deep neural network, a generative network, linear interpolation, explicit mathematical model, or the like) and used to render images in accordance with those modalities using a 3-D rendering engine. The rendered images in the modality may then be used to train or retrain one or more machine learning models, such as convolutional neural networks, to perform computer vision tasks based on input images captured using those modalities.
As such, aspects of embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for generating simulated or synthetic data representative of image data captured by imaging systems using a variety of different imaging modalities such as polarization, thermal, ultraviolet, and combinations thereof. The simulated or synthetic data can be used to as a training data set and/or to augment a training data set for training a machine learning model to perform tasks, such as computer vision tasks, on data captured using an imaging modality corresponding to the imaging modality of the simulated or synthetic data.
While the present invention has been described in connection with certain exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims, and equivalents thereof.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the order in which operations are performed may differ from those as depicted in the figures and as described herein. For example, For example, while
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, some operations may be omitted or not performed, and in some embodiments, additional operations not described herein may be performed before, after, or between various operations described herein.
This application is a U.S. National Phase Patent Application of International Application Number PCT/US2021/012073 filed on Jan. 4, 2021, which claims priority to and the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 62/968,038, filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Jan. 30, 2020, the entire disclosure of each of which is incorporated by reference herein.
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