High-Res Facial Appearance Capture from Polarized Smartphone Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01160v1
• Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 13:34:56 GMT
• Title: High-Res Facial Appearance Capture from Polarized Smartphone Images
• Authors: Dejan Azinovi\'c, Olivier Maury, Christophe Hery, Mathias Nie{\ss}ner and Justus Thies
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel method for high-quality facial texture reconstruction from RGB images using a single smartphone. We record two short sequences in a dark environment under flash illumination with different light polarization using the modified smartphone. We then exploit the camera and light co-location within a differentiable structure to optimize the facial textures using an analysis-by-synthesis approach.
• Score: 11.885559856133339
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We propose a novel method for high-quality facial texture reconstruction from RGB images using a novel capturing routine based on a single smartphone which we equip with an inexpensive polarization foil. Specifically, we turn the flashlight into a polarized light source and add a polarization filter on top of the camera. Leveraging this setup, we capture the face of a subject with cross-polarized and parallel-polarized light. For each subject, we record two short sequences in a dark environment under flash illumination with different light polarization using the modified smartphone. Based on these observations, we reconstruct an explicit surface mesh of the face using structure from motion. We then exploit the camera and light co-location within a differentiable renderer to optimize the facial textures using an analysis-by-synthesis approach. Our method optimizes for high-resolution normal textures, diffuse albedo, and specular albedo using a coarse-to-fine optimization scheme. We show that the optimized textures can be used in a standard rendering pipeline to synthesize high-quality photo-realistic 3D digital humans in novel environments.

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