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NRST: Non-rigid Surface Tracking from Monocular Video

German Conference on Pattern Recognition

M. Habermann 1 W. Xu 1 H. Rhodin 2 M. Zollhöfer 3 G. Pons-Moll 1 C. Theobalt 1
1 MPI Informatics 2 EPFL 3 Stanford University

Abstract:

We propose an efficient method for non-rigid surface tracking from monocular RGB videos. Given a video and a template mesh, our algorithm sequentially registers the template non-rigidly to each frame. We formulate the per-frame registration as an optimization problem that includes a novel texture term specifically tailored towards tracking objects with uniform texture but fine-scale structure, such as the regular micro-structural patterns of fabric. Our texture term exploits the orientation information in the micro-structures of the objects, e.g., the yarn patterns of fabrics. This enables us to accurately track uniformly colored materials that have these high frequency micro-structures, for which traditional photometric terms are usually less effective. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on both general textured non-rigid objects and monochromatic fabrics.

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