Disney patents method to keep faces consistent in AI-generated images
Disney has filed a patent for a technique that helps computer programs generate images where a specific person's face looks the same across different pictures. The system takes a photo of a face, turns it into a digital code, and uses that code to guide an image-creation tool so the new images keep the original facial features.
In the filing’s own words
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing identity-preserving image generation. The technique includes converting an identity image depicting a facial identity into an identity embedding. The technique further includes generating a combined embedding based on the identity embedding and a diffusion iteration identifier. The technique further includes converting, using a neural network and based on the combined embedding, a first input image that includes first noise into a first predicted image depicting one or more facial features that include one or more first facial identity features, wherein the one or more first facial identity features correspond to one or more respective second facial identity features of the identity image and are based at least on the identity embedding.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method for training a machine learning model, the computer-implemented method comprising: generating a combined embedding based on (i) a ground-truth identity vector associated with a facial identity depicted in a clean image and (ii) a diffusion iteration identifier; converting, using a neural network and based on the combined embedding, an input image that includes noise into a predicted clean image; generating a predicted identity vector from the predicted clean image; determining an identity loss based on a difference between the predicted identity vector and the ground-truth identity vector; and updating one or more parameters of the neural network based at least on the identity loss.
Facts
- Company
- Disney (DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.)
- Official title
- IDENTITY-PRESERVING IMAGE GENERATION USING DIFFUSION MODELS
- Publication number
- US20260330707A1
- Application number
- 19730578
- Filed
- Jul 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/00 Physics & computingG06T 5/70 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingG06V 40/171 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20081 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30201 Physics & computingMore from Disney in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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