Summary of 3d Face Tracking From 2d Video Through Iterative Dense Uv to Image Flow, by Felix Taubner et al.
3D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow
by Felix Taubner, Prashant Raina, Mathieu Tuli, Eu Wern Teh, Chul Lee, Jinmiao Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Apr 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 A novel face tracker, FlowFace, is proposed for accurate 3D facial performance capture, addressing limitations in existing methods’ network architecture, training, and evaluation processes. FlowFace introduces a 2D alignment network for dense per-vertex alignment, trained on high-quality 3D scan annotations rather than weak supervision or synthetic data. The tracker jointly fits a 3D face model from one or many observations, integrating neutral shape priors for identity and expression disentanglement and per-vertex deformations for facial feature reconstruction. A novel metric and benchmark are also proposed for assessing tracking accuracy. FlowFace exhibits superior performance on custom and publicly available benchmarks, enabling high-quality 3D data generation from 2D videos with performance gains on downstream tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary FlowFace is a new way to track faces in 3D using 2D videos. This helps create more realistic digital faces that look like real people. The old methods didn’t work well because they were limited by their design and training. FlowFace solves these problems by using better training data and a special alignment network. It can even make new 3D faces from 2D videos, which is useful for making digital characters or humans. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Synthetic data » Tracking
