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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Weta Digital Limited, Wllington, NZ;
Tobias B. Schmidt, Wellington, NZ;
Erik B. Edlund, Wellington, NZ;
Dejan Momcilovic, Wellington, NZ;
Josh Hardgrave, Wellington, NZ;
WETA DIGITAL LIMITED, Wellington, NZ;
Abstract
Embodiments allow live action images from an image capture device to be composited with computer generated images in real-time or near real-time. The two types of images (live action and computer generated) are composited accurately by using a depth map. In an embodiment, the depth map includes a 'depth value' for each pixel in the live action image. In an embodiment, steps of one or more of feature extraction, matching, filtering or refinement can be implemented, at least in part, with an artificial intelligence (AI) computing approach using a deep neural network with training. A combination of computer-generated ('synthetic') and live-action (“recorded”) training data is created and used to train the network so that it can improve the accuracy or usefulness of a depth map so that compositing can be improved.