US Patent Issued to Elektrobit Automotive, Nanyang Technological University on Oct. 7 for "Face anonymization using a generative adversarial network" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,849, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Elektrobit Automotive GmbH (Erlangen, Germany) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Face anonymization using a generative adversarial network" was invented by Yi Estelle Wang (Singapore), Liming Zhai (Singapore), Qing Guo (Singapore) and Jeremy Dahan (Fair Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generative adversarial network performs face anonymization. In a first step, an input image showing a face to be anonymized is received. Furthermore, an input vector with control data for face anonymization is received. The generative adversarial network then generates an output image ...