Morphable Face: Automatic 3D Reconstruction and Manipulation from Single Data-Set Reference Face

http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~blanz/html/data/morphmod2.pdf

The Morphable Face Model captures the variations of 3D shape and texture that occur among human faces. It represents each face by a set of model coefficients, and generates new, natural-looking faces from any novel set of coefficients, which is useful in a wide range of applications in computer vision and computer graphics.

The Morphable Face Model is derived from a data set of 3D face models by automatically establishing point-to-point correspondence between the examples, and transforming their shapes and textures into a vector space representation. New faces and expressions can be modeled by forming linear combinations of the prototypes.

In this framework, it is easy to control complex facial attributes, such as gender, attractiveness, body weight, or facial expressions. Attributes are automatically learned from a set of faces rated by the user, and can then be applied to classify and manipulate new faces.

Given a single photograph of a face, we can estimate its 3D shape, its orientation in space and the illumination conditions in the scene. Starting from a rough estimate of size, orientation and illumination, our algorithm optimizes these parameters along with the face's internal shape and surface colour to find the best match to the input image. The face model extracted from the image can be rotated and manipulated in 3D.

Matching a morphable model automatically to a single sample image of a face produces a 3D shape and a texture map estimate. The texture estimate can be improved by additional texture extraction. The 3D model is rendered back into the image after changing facial attributes, such as gaining and loosing weight, frowning , or being forced to smile.

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[FREEW0RLD2012]

And a bit disconcerting too when you think about it.....

[11September2009]

Very interesting. Great upload.

[97kevinhuanle]

some one should reconstruct Jesus' face if that works

[RedIsTheCat]

It's scaring to think about the possible applications for this

[OzzybanOswald]

@MrV6sport

You might want to go back again and check those conclusions which your research is indicating to you.

[MrEmreD]

Simply WOW

[hiyabuddy69]

"Simon Shack" is a high-level infiltrator shill.

???

[robertoshea1]

cooool



[beastshawnee]

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[DanFrederiksen]

very nice : )

wont be long before we old classic dead actors act again.

we can even make politicians tell the truth :)

[Eschatus2]

Will there be face theft in the future, like identity theft, today?