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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2022
Menglei Chai, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hsin-ying Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Chieh Lin, Merced, CA (US);
Willi Menapace, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Aliaksandr Siarohin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sergey Tulyakov, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Menglei Chai, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hsin-Ying Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Chieh Lin, Merced, CA (US);
Willi Menapace, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Aliaksandr Siarohin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sergey Tulyakov, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
An environment synthesis framework generates virtual environments from a synthesized two-dimensional (2D) satellite map of a geographic area, a three-dimensional (3D) voxel environment, and a voxel-based neural rendering framework. In an example implementation, the synthesized 2D satellite map is generated by a map synthesis generative adversarial network (GAN) which is trained using sample city datasets. The multi-stage framework lifts the 2D map into a set of 3D octrees, generates an octree-based 3D voxel environment, and then converts it into a texturized 3D virtual environment using a neural rendering GAN and a set of pseudo ground truth images. The resulting 3D virtual environment is texturized, lifelike, editable, traversable in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences, and very large in scale.