Patent ID: 11967018
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method for generating an avatar, comprising:
receiving lighting latents for an environment in which an avatar of a subject is to be displayed, wherein the subject is in a separate environment having different lighting than the environment in which the avatar is to be displayed;
determining mesh latents for the subject;
applying the lighting latents and the mesh latents to an inferred shading network comprising a lighting encoder and a texture decoder,
wherein the lighting encoder generates a set of texture latents based on the lighting latents and mesh latents, and
wherein the texture decoder generates a texture map representing a texture of a face of the subject in the lighting of the environment based on the set of texture latents provided by the lighting encoder; and
rendering an avatar of the subject in a view of the environment based on the texture map and a geometric representation of the subject.