US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 3 for "Synthetic generation of face videos with plethysmograph physiology" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,047, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Synthetic generation of face videos with plethysmograph physiology" was invented by Achuta Kadambi (Los Angeles), Laleh Jalilian (Santa Monica, Calif.), Zhen Wang (Los Angeles), Yunhao Ba (Los Angeles), Pradyumna Chari (Los Angeles), Oyku Deniz Bozkurt (Los Angeles) and Maxime Cannesson (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synthetic generation of face videos are described. An embodiment includes receiving an input image; encoding the input image into a UV albedo map, a 3D mesh, an illumination model LSH...