Patent ID: 11967178
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A computing system, comprising:
a neural network implemented by hardware logic circuitry, the neural network having plural layers that perform plural respective instances of warping analysis at increasing respective resolutions, to generate a target image,
one of the plural instances, corresponding to a current instance of warping analysis, operating at a current-level resolution, and having a preceding instance of warping analysis that operates at a prior-level resolution that is less that the current-level resolution,
the current instance of warping analysis including operations of:
receiving geometric displacement field (GDF) information that describes differences between a source mesh generated based on a source image and a driving mesh generated based on driving information;
receiving current-level source feature information produced based on the source image, at the current-level resolution;
receiving prior-level realigned feature information that has been produced by the preceding instance of warping analysis, at the prior-level resolution; and
mapping the GDF information, current-level source feature information, and prior-level realigned feature information to current-level realigned feature information, at the current-level resolution,
the source image including data depicting at least a face of a source subject having a source identity, a source pose, and a source expression,
the driving information specifying one or more driving characteristics, and
the target image combining characteristics of the source image and the driving information.