Coupled 3D reconstruction of sparse facial hair and skin

  • Authors:
  • Thabo Beeler;Bernd Bickel;Gioacchino Noris;Paul Beardsley;Steve Marschner;Robert W. Sumner;Markus Gross

  • Affiliations:
  • Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich;Disney Research Zurich;Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich;Disney Research Zurich;Disney Research Zurich and Cornell University;Disney Research Zurich;Disney Research Zurich and ETH Zurich

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference Proceedings
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Although facial hair plays an important role in individual expression, facial-hair reconstruction is not addressed by current face-capture systems. Our research addresses this limitation with an algorithm that treats hair and skin surface capture together in a coupled fashion so that a high-quality representation of hair fibers as well as the underlying skin surface can be reconstructed. We propose a passive, camera-based system that is robust against arbitrary motion since all data is acquired within the time period of a single exposure. Our reconstruction algorithm detects and traces hairs in the captured images and reconstructs them in 3D using a multiview stereo approach. Our coupled skin-reconstruction algorithm uses information about the detected hairs to deliver a skin surface that lies underneath all hairs irrespective of occlusions. In dense regions like eyebrows, we employ a hair-synthesis method to create hair fibers that plausibly match the image data. We demonstrate our scanning system on a number of individuals and show that it can successfully reconstruct a variety of facial-hair styles together with the underlying skin surface.