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LiveCap: Real-time Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video
We present the first real-time human performance capture approach that
reconstructs dense, space-time coherent deforming geometry of entire humans in
general everyday clothing from just a single RGB video. We propose a novel
two-stage analysis-by-synthesis optimization whose formulation and
implementation are designed for high performance. In the first stage, a skinned
template model is jointly fitted to background subtracted input video, 2D and
3D skeleton joint positions found using a deep neural network, and a set of
sparse facial landmark detections. In the second stage, dense non-rigid 3D
deformations of skin and even loose apparel are captured based on a novel
real-time capable algorithm for non-rigid tracking using dense photometric and
silhouette constraints. Our novel energy formulation leverages automatically
identified material regions on the template to model the differing non-rigid
deformation behavior of skin and apparel. The two resulting non-linear
optimization problems per-frame are solved with specially-tailored
data-parallel Gauss-Newton solvers. In order to achieve real-time performance
of over 25Hz, we design a pipelined parallel architecture using the CPU and two
commodity GPUs. Our method is the first real-time monocular approach for
full-body performance capture. Our method yields comparable accuracy with
off-line performance capture techniques, while being orders of magnitude
faster
MonoPerfCap: Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video
We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D
performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our
approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale
non-rigid surface deformations in general scenes. Human performance capture is
a challenging problem due to the large range of articulation, potentially fast
motion, and considerable non-rigid deformations, even from multi-view data.
Reconstruction from monocular video alone is drastically more challenging,
since strong occlusions and the inherent depth ambiguity lead to a highly
ill-posed reconstruction problem. We tackle these challenges by a novel
approach that employs sparse 2D and 3D human pose detections from a
convolutional neural network using a batch-based pose estimation strategy.
Joint recovery of per-batch motion allows to resolve the ambiguities of the
monocular reconstruction problem based on a low dimensional trajectory
subspace. In addition, we propose refinement of the surface geometry based on
fully automatically extracted silhouettes to enable medium-scale non-rigid
alignment. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance capture results that
enable exciting applications such as video editing and free viewpoint video,
previously infeasible from monocular video. Our qualitative and quantitative
evaluation demonstrates that our approach significantly outperforms previous
monocular methods in terms of accuracy, robustness and scene complexity that
can be handled.Comment: Accepted to ACM TOG 2018, to be presented on SIGGRAPH 201
Learning to Reconstruct People in Clothing from a Single RGB Camera
We present a learning-based model to infer the personalized 3D shape of people from a few frames (1-8) of a monocular video in which the person is moving, in less than 10 seconds with a reconstruction accuracy of 5mm. Our model learns to predict the parameters of a statistical body model and instance displacements that add clothing and hair to the shape. The model achieves fast and accurate predictions based on two key design choices. First, by predicting shape in a canonical T-pose space, the network learns to encode the images of the person into pose-invariant latent codes, where the information is fused. Second, based on the observation that feed-forward predictions are fast but do not always align with the input images, we predict using both, bottom-up and top-down streams (one per view) allowing information to flow in both directions. Learning relies only on synthetic 3D data. Once learned, the model can take a variable number of frames as input, and is able to reconstruct shapes even from a single image with an accuracy of 6mm. Results on 3 different datasets demonstrate the efficacy and accuracy of our approach
Tex2Shape: Detailed Full Human Body Geometry From a Single Image
We present a simple yet effective method to infer detailed full human body shape from only a single photograph. Our model can infer full-body shape including face, hair, and clothing including wrinkles at interactive frame-rates. Results feature details even on parts that are occluded in the input image. Our main idea is to turn shape regression into an aligned image-to-image translation problem. The input to our method is a partial texture map of the visible region obtained from off-the-shelf methods. From a partial texture, we estimate detailed normal and vector displacement maps, which can be applied to a low-resolution smooth body model to add detail and clothing. Despite being trained purely with synthetic data, our model generalizes well to real-world photographs. Numerous results demonstrate the versatility and robustness of our method
Tex2Shape: Detailed Full Human Body Geometry From a Single Image
We present a simple yet effective method to infer detailed full human body
shape from only a single photograph. Our model can infer full-body shape
including face, hair, and clothing including wrinkles at interactive
frame-rates. Results feature details even on parts that are occluded in the
input image. Our main idea is to turn shape regression into an aligned
image-to-image translation problem. The input to our method is a partial
texture map of the visible region obtained from off-the-shelf methods. From a
partial texture, we estimate detailed normal and vector displacement maps,
which can be applied to a low-resolution smooth body model to add detail and
clothing. Despite being trained purely with synthetic data, our model
generalizes well to real-world photographs. Numerous results demonstrate the
versatility and robustness of our method
3D Scanning System for Automatic High-Resolution Plant Phenotyping
Thin leaves, fine stems, self-occlusion, non-rigid and slowly changing
structures make plants difficult for three-dimensional (3D) scanning and
reconstruction -- two critical steps in automated visual phenotyping. Many
current solutions such as laser scanning, structured light, and multiview
stereo can struggle to acquire usable 3D models because of limitations in
scanning resolution and calibration accuracy. In response, we have developed a
fast, low-cost, 3D scanning platform to image plants on a rotating stage with
two tilting DSLR cameras centred on the plant. This uses new methods of camera
calibration and background removal to achieve high-accuracy 3D reconstruction.
We assessed the system's accuracy using a 3D visual hull reconstruction
algorithm applied on 2 plastic models of dicotyledonous plants, 2 sorghum
plants and 2 wheat plants across different sets of tilt angles. Scan times
ranged from 3 minutes (to capture 72 images using 2 tilt angles), to 30 minutes
(to capture 360 images using 10 tilt angles). The leaf lengths, widths, areas
and perimeters of the plastic models were measured manually and compared to
measurements from the scanning system: results were within 3-4% of each other.
The 3D reconstructions obtained with the scanning system show excellent
geometric agreement with all six plant specimens, even plants with thin leaves
and fine stems.Comment: 8 papes, DICTA 201
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