Patents by Inventor Leonard Markus HELMINGER

Leonard Markus HELMINGER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11568524
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for changing the identities of faces in images. In embodiments, a tunable model for changing facial identities in images includes an encoder, a decoder, and dense layers that generate either adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) coefficients that control the operation of convolution layers in the decoder or the values of weights within such convolution layers, allowing the model to change the identity of a face in an image based on a user selection. A separate set of dense layers may be trained to generate AdaIN coefficients for each of a number of facial identities, and the AdaIN coefficients output by different sets of dense layers can be combined to interpolate between facial identities. Alternatively, a single set of dense layers may be trained to take as input an identity vector and output AdaIN coefficients or values of weighs within convolution layers of the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZÜRICH, (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Leonard Markus Helminger, Jacek Krzysztof Naruniec, Romann Matthew Weber, Christopher Richard Schroers
  • Publication number: 20210327038
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for changing the identities of faces in images. In embodiments, a tunable model for changing facial identities in images includes an encoder, a decoder, and dense layers that generate either adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) coefficients that control the operation of convolution layers in the decoder or the values of weights within such convolution layers, allowing the model to change the identity of a face in an image based on a user selection. A separate set of dense layers may be trained to generate AdaIN coefficients for each of a number of facial identities, and the AdaIN coefficients output by different sets of dense layers can be combined to interpolate between facial identities. Alternatively, a single set of dense layers may be trained to take as input an identity vector and output AdaIN coefficients or values of weighs within convolution layers of the decoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Leonard Markus HELMINGER, Jacek Krzysztof NARUNIEC, Romann Matthew WEBER, Christopher Richard SCHROERS