Hyeongwoo Kim1,2    Michael Zollhöfer1,2,3    Ayush Tewari1,2    Justus Thies4    Christian Richardt5    Christian Theobalt1,2

1 MPI Informatik       2 Saarland Informatics Campus       3 Stanford University       4 TU Munich       5 University of Bath

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018


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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Bibtex

@inproceedings{InverseFaceNet,
  author    = {Hyeongwoo Kim and Michael Zollh{\"o}fer and Ayush Tewari and Justus Thies and Christian Richardt and Christian Theobalt},
  title     = {{InverseFaceNet}: Deep Monocular Inverse Face Rendering},
  booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year      = {2018},
  month     = jun,
  pages     = {4625--4634},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2018.00486},
  url       = {http://richardt.name/publications/inversefacenet/},
}