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Textureshop: Scratching a new surface in photo editing Textureshop has created a new photo editing tool that combines existing techniques for shape-from-shading and texture synthesis to enable a user to texture objects... Read More Textureshop has created a new photo editing tool that combines existing techniques for shape-from-shading and texture synthesis to enable a user to texture objects in a photograph. The Textureshop tool allows user to give an object in a photo the appearance of a different texture. Textureshop added more patch deformations than previous models. Instead of selecting patch-like areas directly from source texture, this program distorts the texture coordinate of each of the pixels in the patch with surface normal, and then samples it from texture, so that the texture fits on the underlying surface. Benefits Easier to use - Existing professional photography editing programs require a long time commitment and appreciable skill to edit a feature of a photo while keeping it on the surface of an object in a scene. Operates on a single image - Methods previously employed to texture synthesis have used a series of images from different viewpoints. This application avoids the need for reconstructing global 3-D mesh, and synthesizes the texture instead on a network of individually parameterized surface patches, designed to operate on a single image.
Active Interactive Genetic Algorithms for Reducing User Fatigue and Boosting Evaluation Consistency in Search-Based Domain Interactive genetic algorithms (iGAs) depend on the evaluations or decisions provided by a user. The reliability of those evaluations is key for the successful... Read More Interactive genetic algorithms (iGAs) depend on the evaluations or decisions provided by a user. The reliability of those evaluations is key for the successful application of iGAs. However, even moderately-sized problems my require thousands of evaluations that are sometimes between rather similar solutions which can lead to frustration and inconsistent evaluations. This invention provides a scheme for actively combating user fatigue and inconsistency in iGAs. The efficiency gained from using an interactive procedure by requiring fewer evaluations is lost if the user is unable to provide consistent evaluations. This invention leads to the creation of active iGAs (aiGAs) which include steps of learning from human-computer interaction that actively guide the search-based interaction process. The innovation includes an evaluation-relaxation scheme that actively combats user fatigue and inconsistency by addressing two important issues: Lack of computable fitness Lack of a systematic method for modeling user-decision process Active iGAs optimize a synthetic fitness to obtain educated guesses of the user preferences and thereby reduce the number of user evaluations required. Three important components enable this invention to combat user fatigue and inconsistency. Partial Ordering: Qualitative decisions made by the user about relative solution quality are used to generate partial ordering of solutions Induced Complete Order: Concepts of non-domination and domination count from multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to induce a complete order of the solutions in the population based on their partial ordering Surrogate Function: Induced order is used to assign ranks to the solutions and use them Applications This technology provides the ability to solve difficult problems such as data management, engineering design and optimization, and time and resource allocation in large-scale businesses and organizations, more quickly, reliably, and accurately.
Assertion Generation Suite GoldMine software technology is an automated assertion generation tools to aid with the hardware design verification process. It uses data mining and static... Read More GoldMine software technology is an automated assertion generation tools to aid with the hardware design verification process. It uses data mining and static analysis to generate propositional and temporal assertions in Verilog RTL. The suite also includes: A Figure of Merit Evaluation feature - for evaluating and ranking assertions. Code Coverage Evaluations - for estimating the code covered by an assertion. Word Level Assertion Generation tool to make assertions more usable than those generated at bit level. For more information, visit the goldmine website: http://goldmine.csl.illinois.edu/
Patci Dr. Vetle Torvik fhas developed a new software tool for identifying scientific articles cited by patents. Using advanced probabilistic models and machine learning... Read More Dr. Vetle Torvik fhas developed a new software tool for identifying scientific articles cited by patents. Using advanced probabilistic models and machine learning, the software tracks down the links to databases containing a particular citation. It can determine the names of articles and the authors cited by the examiner even if the citation does not adhere to any standard format with improved accuracy over existing methods. For more information please see the poster here for details: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/54885
Visualizations and Animations from the NCSA A number of scientific animations have been developed by the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Advanced Visualization... Read More A number of scientific animations have been developed by the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) under the direction of Professor Kalina Borkiewicz. Examples of available animations include the Milky Way, black holes, tornado super-twisters, solar super-storms, and many more. AVL's animations are cinematic virtual tours through astrophysics, earth sciences, engineering, and other data domains. Their work has been shared through venues such as international digital-dome museum shows, high-definition documentary television programs, and IMAX movies. Their work has also been featured in productions such as The Science of Interstellar documentary, The Tree of Life and Europa Report, and the Dynamic Earth IMAX show. For more information, please visit the AVL website. Available Licenses NCSA AVL animations are available non-exclusively for commercial use under the two license agreements provided in the sidebar. Note that the financial terms, statement of attribution, and copyright notice need to be determined and finalized before the license is ready for execution. Please contact OTM at otm@illinois.edu or Professor Kalina Borkiewicz at kalina@illinois.edu. Commercial Use License Producer: a three-party license that is intended for use when an organization engages a separate producer or distributor. Commercial Use License: a two party license that is between the University and an organization
NAMD: Scalable Molecular Dynamics Software NAMD is parallel molecular dynamics software designed to provide high-performance simulations of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the ... Read More NAMD is parallel molecular dynamics software designed to provide high-performance simulations of large biomolecular systems. NAMD was developed by the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group under the direction of Professor Klaus Schulten in collaboration with other faculty and laboratories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To learn more about NAMD, please visit this website. Available Licenses The latest version of NAMD software is available free of charge for use by individuals, companies and academic institutions for non-commercial and internal business use only. The software is available under a ready-to-sign click-through agreement on the NAMD website. From this site, select the “Download NAMD” link and then the appropriate version of the software. You will be prompted to register (or login with your credentials), in order to review and accept the license, and to then receive access to software.
A New Human Face Detection Algorithm and System Thomas Huang has been recognized worldwide as a pioneer in research involving topics such as computer vision and signal processing, winning numerous honors and awards for... Read More Thomas Huang has been recognized worldwide as a pioneer in research involving topics such as computer vision and signal processing, winning numerous honors and awards for his seminal contributions to these fields. One noteable invention is Huang's facial recognition software. Consisting of three modules - face detection, discriminative manifold learning, and multiple linear regression - the age-estimation software was trained on a database containing photos of 1,600 faces. The software can estimate ages from 1 year to 93 years. The software’s accuracy ranges from about 50 percent when estimating ages to within 5 years, to more than 80 percent when estimating ages to within 10 years. The accuracy has the potential to be improved through additional training on larger databases of faces. In addition to performing tasks such as security control and surveillance monitoring, age-estimation software also could be used for electronic customer relationship management. Through facial and emotion recognition algorithms, Huang and his team have also been able to reconstruct a 3D face according to the input image and then personalize the 3D face model. This allows for the possibility of having synthetic talking faces deliver messages, instead of text. A method for detecting an object in an image includes calculating a log L likelihood of pairs of pixels at select positions in the image that are derived from training images. The calculated log L likelihood of the pairs of pixels is compared with a threshold value. The object is detected when the calculated log L likelihood is greater than the threshold value.
Blind Recovery of a Speech Source in Real-World Noise This technology is a robust speech recovery algorithm that rejects noises and enhances speech in a real-world noisy environment. The invention works with any type... Read More This technology is a robust speech recovery algorithm that rejects noises and enhances speech in a real-world noisy environment. The invention works with any type, number, or location of microphones and background noise sources. Speech is separated from background noise blindly. No information required beforehand about the speech, background noise, or environment The only preliminary assumption is that speech is high-kurtosis and most background noises are low-kurtosis
Multi-View Wide-Baseline Stereo System In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to... Read More In accordance with one or more aspects of a match, expand, and filter technique for multi-view stereopsis, features across multiple images of an object are matched to obtain a sparse set of patches for the object. The sparse set of patches is expanded to obtain a dense set of patches for the object, and the dense set of patches is filtered to remove erroneous patches. Optionally, reconstructed patches can be converted into 3D mesh models. From the project's website: Patch-Based Multi-view Stereo Software (PMVS) is a multi-view stereo software that takes a set of images and camera parameters, then reconstructs 3D structure of an object or a scene visible in the images. Only rigid structure is reconstructed, in other words, the software automatically ignores non-rigid objects such as pedestrians in front of a building. The software outputs a set of oriented points instead of a polygonal (or a mesh) model, where both the 3D coordinate and the surface normal are estimated at each oriented point.
A Trio of Innovative Imaging Technologies 3-D Insertion into Photographs (TF11149) Professor David Forsyth and his team have developed a program that renders... Read More 3-D Insertion into Photographs (TF11149) Professor David Forsyth and his team have developed a program that renders synthetic objects into legacy photographs. This allows for the insertion of 3-D objects or animations into photos with highly realistic results. Existing methods require measurements of the room or additional photos while this new program does not The film, advertising, and video game industries all use object insertion techniques Current working prototype that functions as an add-in to existing software This technology could also be seamlessly integrated into 3-D rendering platforms A web-based prototype is being developed to enable public testing Relighting Photo Fragments (TF12015) The second program that the University is offering is for relighting image fragments. This software was also developed by Professor David Forsyth and and his team. It extracts fragments of photos and inserts them into other photos with realistic lighting. Estimates 3-D geometry and surface properties of a fragment This program could easily be added to a plug-in for 3-D modeling software Works as a valuable complement to the previously mentioned technology Fully functional prototype has been developed Textureshop (TF04006) The University is also offering Textureshop, a program that allows texture synthesis in photographic editing. This software was developed by Professor John Hart and his team. This program does not require the use of a 3-D mesh to map texture onto a surface in an image Significantly reduces time and effort to map a texture onto 3-D surface Relies on a 2-D imaging technique called graphcut

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