Summary of Universal Facial Encoding Of Codec Avatars From Vr Headsets, by Shaojie Bai et al.
Universal Facial Encoding of Codec Avatars from VR Headsets
by Shaojie Bai, Te-Li Wang, Chenghui Li, Akshay Venkatesh, Tomas Simon, Chen Cao, Gabriel Schwartz, Ryan Wrench, Jason Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Shih-En Wei
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new method for real-time facial animation is presented, which can animate a photorealistic avatar from head-mounted cameras (HMCs) on a consumer Virtual Reality (VR) headset. The approach uses self-supervised learning to enable generalization to unseen users, and includes a lightweight expression calibration mechanism that increases accuracy with minimal additional cost to runtime efficiency. The method also features an improved parameterization for precise ground-truth generation that provides robustness to environmental variation. Compared to prior face-encoding methods, this approach demonstrates significant improvements in both quantitative metrics and qualitative results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making virtual reality avatars look like real people. It’s important because it can help make conversations feel more natural when we’re using VR headsets. The problem is that the cameras on our heads don’t always get a good view of our faces, and things like lighting and angle can affect how we look. To solve this, the authors developed a way to animate avatars in real-time from these cameras. They used special learning techniques and calibration methods to make sure it works for different people. This is important because it could help make VR more realistic and fun. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Self supervised
