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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
May. 02, 2024
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xueting Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shalini De Mello, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sifei Liu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Koki Nagano, Playa Vista, CA (US);
Umar Iqbal, San Jose, CA (US);
Jan Kautz, Lexington, MA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed that animate a source portrait image with motion (i.e., pose and expression) from a target image. In contrast to conventional systems, given an unseen single-view portrait image, an implicit three-dimensional (3D) head avatar is constructed that not only captures photo-realistic details within and beyond the face region, but also is readily available for animation without requiring further optimization during inference. In an embodiment, three processing branches of a system produce three tri-planes representing coarse 3D geometry for the head avatar, detailed appearance of a source image, as well as the expression of a target image. By applying volumetric rendering to a combination of the three tri-planes, an image of the desired identity, expression and pose is generated.