3D face reconstruction is a fundamental Computer Vision
problem of extraordinary difficulty. Current systems often
assume the availability of multiple facial images (sometimes
from the same subject) as input, and must address a number of
methodological challenges such as establishing dense
correspondences across large facial poses, expressions, and
non-uniform illumination. In general these methods require
complex and inefficient pipelines for model building and
fitting. In this work, we propose to address many of these
limitations by training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
on an appropriate dataset consisting of 2D images and 3D
facial models or scans. Our CNN works with just a single 2D
facial image, does not require accurate alignment nor
establishes dense correspondence between images, works for
arbitrary facial poses and expressions, and can be used to
reconstruct the whole 3D facial geometry (including the
non-visible parts of the face) bypassing the construction
(during training) and fitting (during testing) of a 3D
Morphable Model. We achieve this via a simple CNN architecture
that performs direct regression of a volumetric representation
of the 3D facial geometry from a single 2D image. We also
demonstrate how the related task of facial landmark
localization can be incorporated into the proposed framework
and help improve reconstruction quality, especially for the
cases of large poses and facial expressions.
There is an online demo which will let you upload an image to convert and even save as a 3D model here
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