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

Claim 18:
19. A computer-readable storage medium for storing computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable storage medium excluding propagated signals in transit, one or more hardware processors executing the computer-readable instructions to perform a method that comprises:
receiving a source image that includes data depicting at least a face of a source subject having a source identity, a source pose, and a source expression;
receiving driving information that specifies one or more driving characteristics;
receiving geometric displacement field (GDF) information that describes differences between a source mesh generated based on the source image and a driving mesh generated based on the driving information;
producing a target image that combines characteristics of the source image and the driving information,
the target image being produced by performing plural instances of warping analysis at plural respective levels, the plural instances of warping analysis operating at increasing respective resolutions,
each particular instance of warping analysis having a preceding instance of warping analysis using the GDF information to modulate feature information produced by a preceding instance of warping analysis, to produce full displacement field information, and using the full displacement field information to generate realigned feature information for the particular instance of warping analysis.