Generating novel views of a three-dimensional object based on a single two-dimensional image

A method for generating views of an object, comprising:

• determining a new region of a new view of an object that includes a new portion of the object, the new region based on a rotational transformation applied to two-dimensional (2D) data;
• predicting the new portion of the object by generating a prediction of values for masked pixels in an intermediate image of the object from the new view, the masked pixels corresponding to the new portion of the object occluded in an initial view of the object;
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• providing a target image that includes the new view of the object, wherein the new region of the new view includes the prediction of the new portion of the object.

A computing system for providing views of an object, comprising:

• means for generating an image completion model based on a 3D training dataset and a geometric flow model;
• means for generating a predicted image of a disoccluded portion of a 3D object depicted in a two-dimension (2D) image by hallucinating the disoccluded portion of the 3D object using generated values for masked pixels in an intermediate image of the 3D object from a second view different than an initial view, the masked pixels corresponding to the second portion of the object occluded in the initial view of the object, wherein the predicted image is generated using the image completion model and a generated intermediate view related to the intermediate image;
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• means for generating a target image that includes the second view of the 3D object, wherein the target image includes the predicted image.