NSF: Neural Surface Fields for Human Modeling from Monocular Depth

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14847v4
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:30:35 GMT
• Title: NSF: Neural Surface Fields for Human Modeling from Monocular Depth
• Authors: Yuxuan Xue, Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Riccardo Marin, Nikolaos Sarafianos, Yuanlu Xu, Gerard Pons-Moll, Tony Tung
• Abstract summary: It is challenging to model dynamic and fine-grained clothing deformations from sparse data. Existing methods for modeling 3D humans from depth data have limitations in terms of computational efficiency, mesh coherency, and flexibility in resolution and topology. We propose a novel method Neural Surface Fields for modeling 3D clothed humans from monocular depth.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Obtaining personalized 3D animatable avatars from a monocular camera has several real world applications in gaming, virtual try-on, animation, and VR/XR, etc. However, it is very challenging to model dynamic and fine-grained clothing deformations from such sparse data. Existing methods for modeling 3D humans from depth data have limitations in terms of computational efficiency, mesh coherency, and flexibility in resolution and topology. For instance, reconstructing shapes using implicit functions and extracting explicit meshes per frame is computationally expensive and cannot ensure coherent meshes across frames. Moreover, predicting per-vertex deformations on a pre-designed human template with a discrete surface lacks flexibility in resolution and topology. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel method Neural Surface Fields for modeling 3D clothed humans from monocular depth. NSF defines a neural field solely on the base surface which models a continuous and flexible displacement field. NSF can be adapted to the base surface with different resolution and topology without retraining at inference time. Compared to existing approaches, our method eliminates the expensive per-frame surface extraction while maintaining mesh coherency, and is capable of reconstructing meshes with arbitrary resolution without retraining. To foster research in this direction, we release our code in project page at: https://yuxuan-xue.com/nsf.

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