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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2022
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for adaptive decoding of compressed video for video conferencing may be provided. The method may include receiving compressed video data comprising a plurality of video frames, and determining, a selection signal indicating whether at least one of a face restoration technique and a face reenactment technique is to be used. The method may include adaptively selecting and transmitting a single reference frame or a plurality of low resolution (LR) frames comprising essential facial features, generating, one or more recovered facial features and one or more respective decompressed low resolution (LR) extended face areas based on the selection signal and the compressed video data, and decoding a video frame from the plurality of video frames based on the one or more recovered facial features and the one or more respective decompressed low resolution (LR) extended face areas.