Patent ID: 11915513
Assignee: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method of generating a character face image, the method comprising:
receiving an original person image from a user terminal;
selecting an arbitrary latent vector in a latent space;
generating a virtual person image based on the latent vector;
activating an original person region and deactivating an original background region from among the original person region and the original background region included in the original person image;
activating a virtual person region and deactivating a virtual background region from among the virtual person region and the virtual background region included in the virtual person image;
optimizing the latent vector such that identity similarity between an image of the original person region and an image of the virtual person region increases;
manipulating the optimized latent vector;
converting the original person image into a levelled person image, in which a person stares forward and shows a neutral emotion, and in which an illumination is illuminating a front of the person's face, by using the manipulated latent vector; and
generating the character face image to correspond to the levelled person image.