OpenDR: An approximate differentiable renderer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8695 LNCS, Issue PART 7, 2014, Pages 154-169

  Loper, Matthew M ^a   Black, Michael J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic Differentiation; Inverse graphics; Optimization; Programming; Rendering; Software

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATIONS; HUMAN BODIES; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; INVERSE GRAPHICS; LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING; RENDERING;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84906345204     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10584-0_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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