Patent ID: 11900518
Assignee: VIRTTARI LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A method of producing an avatar video, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a reference image of a person's face;
providing a plurality of characteristic features representative of a facial model X0 of the person's face, the plurality of characteristic features defining a facial pose dependent on a person speaking;
providing a target phrase to be rendered over a predetermined time period during the avatar video and providing a plurality of time intervals t within the predetermined time period;
generating, for each of said plurality of time intervals t, speech features from the target phrase, to provide a sequence of speech features; and
generating, using the plurality of characteristic features and sequence of speech features, a sequence of facial models Xt for each of said plurality of time intervals t, wherein the sequence of facial models Xt is generated using a recursive model.