Abstract: The present specification describes systems and methodsfor automatically generating personalized blendshapes from actor performance measurements, while preserving the semantics of a template facial animation rig. The disclosed inventions facilitate the creation of an ensemble of realistic digital double face rigs for each individual with consistent behaviour across the set with sophisticated iterative optimization techniques.

Abstract: Output textures may be generated by synthesizing an input texture comprising discrete elements with a set of boundary conditions. Elements of the input texture are copied from the input texture to an output texture that is defined by a set of boundary conditions and are then refined. The elements of the output texture are refined by assigning domain and/or attribute information to the elements of the output texture element by minimizing an energy function measuring a similarity between output neighborhoods of the output texture and a corresponding best matching input neighborhood of the input texture.

Abstract: Output textures may be generated by synthesizing an input texture comprising discrete elements with a set of boundary conditions. Elements of the input texture are copied from the input texture to an output texture that is defined by a set of boundary conditions and are then refined. The elements of the output texture are refined by assigning domain and/or attribute information to the elements of the output texture element by minimizing an energy function measuring a similarity between output neighborhoods of the output texture and a corresponding best matching input neighborhood of the input texture.

Abstract: A system is described for using a texture synthesis approach to produce digital images that simulate motion. The system operates by receiving a large-scale motion image that describes large-scale motion, as well as one or more exemplar images that describes small-scale motion. The system then applies a texture synthesis approach to duplicate the small-scale motion described in the exemplar image(s), as guided by the large-scale motion described in the large-scale motion image. This operation produces a synthesized motion image. The system then combines the synthesized motion image with the large-scale motion image to produce a combined motion image. The combined motion image presents the large-scale motion as modulated by the small-scale motion. The system can also take account for one or more application-specific constraints, such as incompressibility and boundary conditions.