Snap Inc.

Yurii Volkov

Pavel Savchenkov

Jeremy Baker Voss

Aleksandr Mashrabov

Maxim Lukin

Nikolai Smirnov

Ivan Belonogov

Provided are systems and methods for realistic head turns and face animation synthesis. An example method may include receiving frames of a source video with the head and the face of a source actor. The method may then proceed with generating sets of source pose parameters that represent positions of the head and facial expressions of the source actor. The method may further include receiving at least one target image including the target head and the target face of a target person, determining target identity information associated with the target face, and generating an output video based on the target identity information and the sets of source pose parameters. Each frame of the output video can include an image of the target face modified to mimic at least one of the positions of the head of the source actor and at least one of facial expressions of the source actor.

Systems and methods for realistic head turns and face animation synthesis on mobile device

In some embodiments, users' experience of engaging with augmented reality technology is enhanced by providing a process, referred to as face animation synthesis, that replaces an actor's face in the frames of a video with a user's face from the user's portrait image. The resulting face in the frames of the video retains the facial expressions, as well as color and lighting, of the actor's face but, at the same time, has the likeness of the user's face. An example face animation synthesis experience can be made available to uses of a messaging system by providing a face animation synthesis augmented reality component.

Face animation synthesis

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Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Yurii Volkov