Photo-inspired model-driven 3D object modeling
ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers
Constructing 3D human model from front and side images
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Coregistration: simultaneous alignment and modeling of articulated 3d shape
ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part VI
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We present a data-driven approach to build a human body model from a single photograph by performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on a database of body segments. We segment a collection of human bodies to compile the required database prior to performing the analysis. Our approach then builds a single PCA for each body segment - head, left and right arms, torso and left and right legs - yielding six PCAs in total. This strategy improves on the flexibility of conventional data-driven approaches in 3D modeling and allows our approach to take variations in ethnicity, age and body posture into account. We demonstrate our approach in practice by constructing models of a Caucasian male, an Asian male and a toddler from corresponding photographs and a Caucasian adult oriented database. We also discuss rapid consistent parameterization based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) and non-optimization based learning systems to reduce execution time.