Patent attributes
A control circuit access a source image that includes a source face and an image to be modified that includes a face to be modified. The control circuit then employs a trained identity encoder to transform at least a part of the source image into a corresponding identity vector and then also employs an attribute encoder to form an attribute feature vector that represents characterizing information for a plurality of features of the image to be modified. The control circuit then employs an image generator to decode the attribute feature vector to obtain the characterizing information for the plurality of features of the image to be modified and to then modify the identity vector as a function of the characterizing information for the plurality of features of the image to be modified to provide a resultant image that includes a resultant face that is essentially the face of the image to be modified but with facial features that emulate corresponding facial features of the source face.