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InverseFaceNet:
Deep Monocular Inverse Face Rendering

Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018

H. Kim 1,2 M. Zollhöfer 1,2,3 A. Tewari 1,2 J. Thies 4 C. Richardt 5 C. Theobalt 1,2
1 MPI Informatics 2 Saarland Informatics Campus 3 Stanford University 4 University of Munich 5 University of Bath

Abstract:

We introduce InverseFaceNet, a deep convolutional inverse rendering framework for faces that jointly estimates facial pose, shape, expression, reflectance and illumination from a single input image. By estimating all parameters from just a single image, advanced editing possibilities on a single face image, such as appearance editing and relighting, become feasible in real time. Most previous learning-based face reconstruction approaches do not jointly recover all dimensions, or are severely limited in terms of visual quality. In contrast, we propose to recover high-quality facial pose, shape, expression, reflectance and illumination using a deep neural network that is trained using a large, synthetically created training corpus. Our approach builds on a novel loss function that measures model-space similarity directly in parameter space and significantly improves reconstruction accuracy. We further propose a self-supervised bootstrapping process in the network training loop, which iteratively updates the synthetic training corpus to better reflect the distribution of real-world imagery. We demonstrate that this strategy outperforms completely synthetically trained networks. Finally, we show high-quality reconstructions and compare our approach to several state-of-the-art approaches.

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