US 12,094,026 B2
Apparatus and method for enhancing graphics rendering photorealism
Stephan Richter, Neubiberg (DE); Vladlen Koltun, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Hassan Abu Alhaija, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/939,490.
Prior Publication US 2022/0028026 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 1/20 (2013.01) [G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A graphics processor comprising:
a graphics processing pipeline comprising a plurality of graphics processing stages to render graphics images;
a local storage to store intermediate rendering data for a graphics image of the graphics images, wherein the intermediate rendering data comprises attributes that are extracted in evaluating visible and opaque geometry of the graphics image during a first pass of multiple passes to render the graphics image and that are for lighting or shading computations; and
machine learning hardware logic to perform a refinement operation on the graphics image in a second pass of the multiple passes using at least a portion of the intermediate rendering data to generate a translated image as a photorealistic image of the graphic image rendered through the multiple passes, wherein the refinement to generate the translated image is based on real world video footage presented to the machine learning hardware logic.