Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07538v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:59:21 GMT
• Title: Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models
• Authors: Prashanth Chandran and Gaspard Zoss
• Abstract summary: We present a novel use case for such implicit representations in the context of learning anatomically constrained face models. We propose the anatomical implicit face model; an ensemble of networks that jointly learn to model the facial anatomy and the skin surface with high-fidelity. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach in several tasks ranging from shape fitting, shape editing, and performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Coordinate based implicit neural representations have gained rapid popularity in recent years as they have been successfully used in image, geometry and scene modeling tasks. In this work, we present a novel use case for such implicit representations in the context of learning anatomically constrained face models. Actor specific anatomically constrained face models are the state of the art in both facial performance capture and performance retargeting. Despite their practical success, these anatomical models are slow to evaluate and often require extensive data capture to be built. We propose the anatomical implicit face model; an ensemble of implicit neural networks that jointly learn to model the facial anatomy and the skin surface with high-fidelity, and can readily be used as a drop in replacement to conventional blendshape models. Given an arbitrary set of skin surface meshes of an actor and only a neutral shape with estimated skull and jaw bones, our method can recover a dense anatomical substructure which constrains every point on the facial surface. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach in several tasks ranging from shape fitting, shape editing, and performance retargeting.

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