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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2020
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sergey Bashkirov, Salida, CA (US);
Michael Taylor, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Computer animation involving pose disambiguation is disclosed. Two or more source segmentation masks are generated from corresponding contemporaneous video images of a character from different points of view. A three-dimensional model of an animation character corresponding to the character in the two or more contemporaneous video images is generated. Two or more different target segmentation masks corresponding to different views of the animation character corresponding to the character in the two or more video images. Each target segmentation mask is compared to a corresponding source segmentation mask from the comparison it is determined whether a pose of the three-dimensional model corresponds to a pose of the character in the video images. The model is used to generate a frame of animation of the animated character when the pose of model corresponds to the pose of the character in the video images.