Summary of Synergistic Global-space Camera and Human Reconstruction From Videos, by Yizhou Zhao et al.
Synergistic Global-space Camera and Human Reconstruction from Videos
by Yizhou Zhao, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Bhiksha Raj, Min Xu, Jimei Yang, Chun-Hao Paul Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces Synergistic Camera and Human Reconstruction (SynCHMR), a novel approach that combines the best of both worlds in reconstructing static scenes or human bodies from monocular videos. Most existing visual SLAM methods can only reconstruct camera trajectories and scene structures up to scale, while most HMR methods reconstruct human meshes in metric scale but lack synergy with cameras and scenes. SynCHMR addresses this gap by designing Human-aware Metric SLAM to reconstruct metric-scale camera poses and scene point clouds using camera-frame HMR as a strong prior, addressing depth, scale, and dynamic ambiguities. Conditioning on the dense scene recovered, the paper further learns a Scene-aware SMPL Denoiser to enhance world-frame HMR by incorporating spatio-temporal coherency and dynamic scene constraints. The result is consistent reconstructions of camera trajectories, human meshes, and dense scene point clouds in a common world frame. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper finds a way to combine two important tasks: reconstructing scenes from videos and reconstructing human bodies. Currently, these tasks are done separately, but the new method brings them together. The approach uses a strong prior based on camera-frame human body reconstruction to improve scene reconstruction. Then, it uses the reconstructed scene information to enhance world-frame human body reconstruction. This leads to more accurate and consistent results. |
