US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Feb. 24 for "Topologically consistent multi-view face inference using volumetric sampling" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,908, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Topologically consistent multi-view face inference using volumetric sampling" was invented by Tianye Li (Los Angeles), Yajie Zhao (Los Angeles), Shichen Liu (Los Angeles), Jiayi Liu (Los Angeles), Hao Li (Los Angeles) and Timo Bolkart (Dietmannsried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating topologically consistent meshes across various subjects, objects, and/or various facial expressions using a volumetric representation. In one example, a progressive mesh generation network is configured to embed t...