Silhouette-Based 3D Face Shape Recovery
| Citation: |
Lee, J.; Moghaddam, B.; Pfister, H.; Machiraju, R., "Silhouette-Based 3D Face Shape Recovery", Graphics Interface, June 2003 (Graphics Interface) |
| MERL Report: | TR2003-81 |
The creation of realistic 3D face models is still a fundamental problem in computer graphics. In this paper we present a novel method to obtain the 3D shape of an arbitrary human face using a sequence of silhouette images as input. Our face model is a linear combination of eigenheads, which are obtained by a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of laser-scanned 3D human faces. The coefficients of this linear decomposition are used as our model parameters. We introduce a near-automatic method for reconstructing a 3D face model whose silhouette images match closest to the set of input silhouettes.
