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AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMinje Park, Tae-Hoon Kim, Myung-Ho Ju, Jihyeon Yi, Xiaolu Shen, Lidan Zhang, Qiang Li
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Avatar animation systems disclosed herein provide high quality, real-time avatar animation that is based on the varying countenance of a human face. In some example embodiments, the real-time provision of high quality avatar animation is enabled at least in part, by a multi-frame regressor that is configured to map information descriptive of facial expressions depicted in two or more images to information descriptive of a single avatar blend shape. The two or more images may be temporally sequential images. This multi-frame regressor implements a machine learning component that generates the high quality avatar animation from information descriptive of a subject's face and/or information descriptive of avatar animation frames previously generated by the multi-frame regressor. The machine learning component may be trained using a set of training images that depict human facial expressions and avatar animation authored by professional animators to reflect facial expressions depicted in the set of training images.
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An avatar animation system comprising:
A method of generating real-time avatar animation using a smart phone, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer program product encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a real-time process of animating avatars to be carried out, the process comprising:
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