no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Neng Qian, Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
3D hand reconstruction from images is a widely-studied problem in computer vision and graphics, and has a particularly high relevance for virtual and augmented reality.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Vikramjit Sidhu, Edgar Tretschk, Vladislav Golyanik, Antonio Agudo, Christian Theobalt
We introduce the first dense neural non-rigid structure from motion (N-NRSfM) approach, which can be trained end-to-end in an unsupervised manner from 2D point tracks.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2023 • Jiahui Zhang, Fangneng Zhan, Christian Theobalt, Shijian Lu
The first is a prior distribution regularization which measures the discrepancy between a prior token distribution and the predicted token distribution to avoid codebook collapse and low codebook utilization.
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2023 • Jiatao Gu, Alex Trevithick, Kai-En Lin, Josh Susskind, Christian Theobalt, Lingjie Liu, Ravi Ramamoorthi
Novel view synthesis from a single image requires inferring occluded regions of objects and scenes whilst simultaneously maintaining semantic and physical consistency with the input.
1 code implementation • 12 Jan 2023 • Diogo Luvizon, Marc Habermann, Vladislav Golyanik, Adam Kortylewski, Christian Theobalt
In this work, we consider the problem of estimating the 3D position of multiple humans in a scene as well as their body shape and articulation from a single RGB video recorded with a static camera.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2022 • Balamurugan Thambiraja, Ikhsanul Habibie, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Darren Cosker, Christian Theobalt, Justus Thies
To address this, we present Imitator, a speech-driven facial expression synthesis method, which learns identity-specific details from a short input video and produces novel facial expressions matching the identity-specific speaking style and facial idiosyncrasies of the target actor.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2022 • Jian Wang, Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Diogo Luvizon, Christian Theobalt
To this end, we propose an egocentric depth estimation network to predict the scene depth map from a wide-view egocentric fisheye camera while mitigating the occlusion of the human body with a depth-inpainting network.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2022 • Anindita Ghosh, Rishabh Dabral, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Philipp Slusallek
Is it possible to synthesize such motion plausibly with a diverse set of objects and instructions?
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2022 • Yiming Wang, Qin Han, Marc Habermann, Kostas Daniilidis, Christian Theobalt, Lingjie Liu
To accelerate the training process, we integrate multi-resolution hash encodings into a neural surface representation and implement our whole algorithm in CUDA.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2022 • Rishabh Dabral, Muhammad Hamza Mughal, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Conventional methods for human motion synthesis are either deterministic or struggle with the trade-off between motion diversity and motion quality.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2022 • Moritz Kappel, Vladislav Golyanik, Susana Castillo, Christian Theobalt, Marcus Magnor
3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis of dynamic scenes from collections of single views recently gained increased attention.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2022 • Xiaoxiao Long, Cheng Lin, Lingjie Liu, YuAn Liu, Peng Wang, Christian Theobalt, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang
In this paper, we propose to represent surfaces as the Unsigned Distance Function (UDF) and develop a new volume rendering scheme to learn the neural UDF representation.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2022 • Chao Wang, Ana Serrano, Xingang Pan, Bin Chen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Karol Myszkowski, Thomas Leimkuehler
Most in-the-wild images are stored in Low Dynamic Range (LDR) form, serving as a partial observation of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) visual world.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2022 • Congyi Zhang, Mohamed Elgharib, Gereon Fox, Min Gu, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang
Current dental models use an explicit mesh scene representation and model only the teeth, ignoring the gum.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2022 • Jiepeng Wang, Congyi Zhang, Peng Wang, Xin Li, Peter J. Cobb, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang
Extensive validation in labs and testing in excavation sites demonstrated that our FIRES system provides the first fast, accurate, portal, and cost-effective solution for the task of imaging and 3D reconstruction of sherds in archaeological excavations.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2022 • Mallikarjun BR, Ayush Tewari, Xingang Pan, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We start with a global generative model (GAN) and learn to decompose it into different semantic parts using supervision from 2D segmentation masks.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2022 • Edith Tretschk, Navami Kairanda, Mallikarjun B R, Rishabh Dabral, Adam Kortylewski, Bernhard Egger, Marc Habermann, Pascal Fua, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
3D reconstruction of deformable (or non-rigid) scenes from a set of monocular 2D image observations is a long-standing and actively researched area of computer vision and graphics.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Marc Habermann, Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Gerard Pons-Moll, Michael Zollhoefer, Christian Theobalt
Photo-real digital human avatars are of enormous importance in graphics, as they enable immersive communication over the globe, improve gaming and entertainment experiences, and can be particularly beneficial for AR and VR settings.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2022 • Yue Jiang, Marc Habermann, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Furthermore, we show that HiFECap outperforms the state-of-the-art human performance capture approaches qualitatively and quantitatively while for the first time capturing all aspects of the human.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2022 • Jiayi Wang, Diogo Luvizon, Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Adam Kortylewski, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
Through this, we demonstrate the quality of our probabilistic reconstruction and show that explicit ambiguity modeling is better-suited for this challenging problem.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2022 • Tong Wu, Jiaqi Wang, Xingang Pan, Xudong Xu, Christian Theobalt, Ziwei Liu, Dahua Lin
Previous methods based on neural volume rendering mostly train a fully implicit model with MLPs, which typically require hours of training for a single scene.
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2022 • Yiming Wang, Qingzhe Gao, Libin Liu, Lingjie Liu, Christian Theobalt, Baoquan Chen
The learned representation can be used to synthesize novel view images of an arbitrary person from a sparse set of cameras, and further animate them with the user's pose control.
1 code implementation • 17 Aug 2022 • Zhi Li, Soshi Shimada, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
3D human motion capture from monocular RGB images respecting interactions of a subject with complex and possibly deformable environments is a very challenging, ill-posed and under-explored problem.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2022 • Hiroyasu Akada, Jian Wang, Soshi Shimada, Masaki Takahashi, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
We present UnrealEgo, i. e., a new large-scale naturalistic dataset for egocentric 3D human pose estimation.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2022 • Linjie Lyu, Ayush Tewari, Thomas Leimkuehler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
Given a set of images of a scene, the re-rendering of this scene from novel views and lighting conditions is an important and challenging problem in Computer Vision and Graphics.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2022 • Jiepeng Wang, Peng Wang, Xiaoxiao Long, Christian Theobalt, Taku Komura, Lingjie Liu, Wenping Wang
The key idea of NeuRIS is to integrate estimated normal of indoor scenes as a prior in a neural rendering framework for reconstructing large texture-less shapes and, importantly, to do this in an adaptive manner to also enable the reconstruction of irregular shapes with fine details.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2022 • Weilin Wan, Lei Yang, Lingjie Liu, Zhuoying Zhang, Ruixing Jia, Yi-King Choi, Jia Pan, Christian Theobalt, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang
We also observe that an object's intrinsic physical properties are useful for the object motion prediction, and thus design a set of object dynamic descriptors to encode such intrinsic properties.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2022 • Viktor Rudnev, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
At the core of our method is a neural radiance field trained entirely in a self-supervised manner from events while preserving the original resolution of the colour event channels.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2022 • Xingang Pan, Ayush Tewari, Lingjie Liu, Christian Theobalt
2D images are observations of the 3D physical world depicted with the geometry, material, and illumination components.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2022 • Erik C. M. Johnson, Marc Habermann, Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Capturing general deforming scenes from monocular RGB video is crucial for many computer graphics and vision applications.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2022 • Mengyu Chu, Lingjie Liu, Quan Zheng, Erik Franz, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, Rhaleb Zayer
With a hybrid architecture that separates static and dynamic contents, fluid interactions with static obstacles are reconstructed for the first time without additional geometry input or human labeling.
no code implementations • 11 May 2022 • Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Zhi Li, Patrick Pérez, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt
Marker-less monocular 3D human motion capture (MoCap) with scene interactions is a challenging research topic relevant for extended reality, robotics and virtual avatar generation.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Xianghui Xie, Ilya A. Petrov, Cristian Sminchisescu, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
We present BEHAVE dataset, the first full body human- object interaction dataset with multi-view RGBD frames and corresponding 3D SMPL and object fits along with the annotated contacts between them.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2022 • Liqian Ma, Lingjie Liu, Christian Theobalt, Luc van Gool
In addition, DDP is computationally more efficient than previous dense pose estimation methods, and it reduces jitters when applied to a video sequence, which is a problem plaguing the previous methods.
no code implementations • 30 Mar 2022 • Tarun Yenamandra, Ayush Tewari, Nan Yang, Florian Bernard, Christian Theobalt, Daniel Cremers
To this end, we learn a signed distance function (SDF) along with our DDF model to represent a class of shapes.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Ayush Tewari, Mallikarjun B R, Xingang Pan, Ohad Fried, Maneesh Agrawala, Christian Theobalt
Our model can disentangle the geometry and appearance variations in the scene, i. e., we can independently sample from the geometry and appearance spaces of the generative model.
no code implementations • 22 Mar 2022 • Navami Kairanda, Edith Tretschk, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
In contrast to previous works, this paper proposes a new SfT approach explaining 2D observations through physical simulations accounting for forces and material properties.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Willi Menapace, Stéphane Lathuilière, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Christian Theobalt, Sergey Tulyakov, Vladislav Golyanik, Elisa Ricci
We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Jian Wang, Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Diogo Luvizon, Christian Theobalt
Specifically, we first generate pseudo labels for the EgoPW dataset with a spatio-temporal optimization method by incorporating the external-view supervision.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Navami Kairanda, Edith Tretschk, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
In contrast to previous works, this paper proposes a new SfT approach explaining 2D observations through physical simulations accounting for forces and material properties.
1 code implementation • 27 Dec 2021 • Fangneng Zhan, Yingchen Yu, Rongliang Wu, Jiahui Zhang, Shijian Lu, Lingjie Liu, Adam Kortylewski, Christian Theobalt, Eric Xing
As information exists in various modalities in real world, effective interaction and fusion among multimodal information plays a key role for the creation and perception of multimodal data in computer vision and deep learning research.
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2021 • Yuanbo Xiangli, Linning Xu, Xingang Pan, Nanxuan Zhao, Anyi Rao, Christian Theobalt, Bo Dai, Dahua Lin
The wide span of viewing positions within these scenes yields multi-scale renderings with very different levels of detail, which poses great challenges to neural radiance field and biases it towards compromised results.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2021 • Viktor Rudnev, Mohamed Elgharib, William Smith, Lingjie Liu, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Photorealistic editing of outdoor scenes from photographs requires a profound understanding of the image formation process and an accurate estimation of the scene geometry, reflectance and illumination.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Tao Hu, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Lingjie Liu, Matthias Zwicker, Christian Theobalt
We next combine the target pose image and the textures into a combined feature image, which is transformed into the output color image using a neural image translation network.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2021 • Marc Habermann, Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhoefer, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Human performance capture is a highly important computer vision problem with many applications in movie production and virtual/augmented reality.
1 code implementation • 10 Nov 2021 • Ayush Tewari, Justus Thies, Ben Mildenhall, Pratul Srinivasan, Edgar Tretschk, Yifan Wang, Christoph Lassner, Vincent Sitzmann, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Stephen Lombardi, Tomas Simon, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Niessner, Jonathan T. Barron, Gordon Wetzstein, Michael Zollhoefer, Vladislav Golyanik
The reconstruction of such a scene representation from observations using differentiable rendering losses is known as inverse graphics or inverse rendering.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Xingang Pan, Xudong Xu, Chen Change Loy, Christian Theobalt, Bo Dai
Motivated by the observation that a 3D object should look realistic from multiple viewpoints, these methods introduce a multi-view constraint as regularization to learn valid 3D radiance fields from 2D images.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2022 • Jiatao Gu, Lingjie Liu, Peng Wang, Christian Theobalt
We perform volume rendering only to produce a low-resolution feature map and progressively apply upsampling in 2D to address the first issue.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Rishabh Dabral, Soshi Shimada, Arjun Jain, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
We evaluate GraviCap on a new dataset with ground-truth annotations for persons and different objects undergoing free flights.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • YuAn Liu, Sida Peng, Lingjie Liu, Qianqian Wang, Peng Wang, Christian Theobalt, Xiaowei Zhou, Wenping Wang
On such a 3D point, these generalization methods will include inconsistent image features from invisible views, which interfere with the radiance field construction.
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2021 • Gereon Fox, Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We demonstrate that it suffices to train our temporal architecture on only 10 minutes of footage of 1 subject for about 6 hours.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2021 • Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Michael Moeller
In this work, we address such problems with emerging quantum computing technology and propose several reformulations of QAPs as unconstrained problems suitable for efficient execution on quantum hardware.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2021 • Mohamed Elgharib, Mohit Mendiratta, Justus Thies, Matthias Nießner, Hans-Peter Seidel, Ayush Tewari, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Even holding a mobile phone camera in the front of the face while sitting for a long duration is not convenient.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Ye Yu, Abhimitra Meka, Mohamed Elgharib, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt, William A. P. Smith
Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2021 • Marc Habermann, Weipeng Xu, Helge Rhodin, Michael Zollhoefer, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Our texture term exploits the orientation information in the micro-structures of the objects, e. g., the yarn patterns of fabrics.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2021 • Jameel Malik, Soshi Shimada, Ahmed Elhayek, Sk Aziz Ali, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik, Didier Stricker
To address the limitations of the existing methods, we develop HandVoxNet++, i. e., a voxel-based deep network with 3D and graph convolutions trained in a fully supervised manner.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2021 • Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Suzanne Sorli, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Neng Qian, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
Moreover, we demonstrate that our approach offers previously unseen two-hand tracking performance from RGB, and quantitatively and qualitatively outperforms existing RGB-based methods that were not explicitly designed for two-hand interactions.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2021 • Vladislav Golyanik, Soshi Shimada, Christian Theobalt
The problem of simultaneous rigid alignment of multiple unordered point sets which is unbiased towards any of the inputs has recently attracted increasing interest, and several reliable methods have been newly proposed.
4 code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Peng Wang, Lingjie Liu, YuAn Liu, Christian Theobalt, Taku Komura, Wenping Wang
In NeuS, we propose to represent a surface as the zero-level set of a signed distance function (SDF) and develop a new volume rendering method to train a neural SDF representation.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2021 • Franziska Mueller, Micah Davis, Florian Bernard, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Mickeal Verschoor, Miguel A. Otaduy, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
We present a novel method for real-time pose and shape reconstruction of two strongly interacting hands.
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2021 • Lingjie Liu, Marc Habermann, Viktor Rudnev, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Jiatao Gu, Christian Theobalt
To address this problem, we utilize a coarse body model as the proxy to unwarp the surrounding 3D space into a canonical pose.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Zorah Lähner, Vladislav Golyanik, Christof Wunderlich, Christian Theobalt, Michael Moeller
Finding shape correspondences can be formulated as an NP-hard quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that becomes infeasible for shapes with high sampling density.
no code implementations • 4 May 2021 • Marc Habermann, Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhoefer, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
We propose a deep videorealistic 3D human character model displaying highly realistic shape, motion, and dynamic appearance learned in a new weakly supervised way from multi-view imagery.
no code implementations • 3 May 2021 • Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Weipeng Xu, Patrick Pérez, Christian Theobalt
We present a new trainable system for physically plausible markerless 3D human motion capture, which achieves state-of-the-art results in a broad range of challenging scenarios.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2021 • Jalees Nehvi, Vladislav Golyanik, Franziska Mueller, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
This paper introduces the first differentiable simulator of event streams, i. e., streams of asynchronous brightness change signals recorded by event cameras.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Jian Wang, Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Christian Theobalt
Furthermore, these methods suffer from limited accuracy and temporal instability due to ambiguities caused by the monocular setup and the severe occlusion in a strongly distorted egocentric perspective.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Linjie Lyu, Marc Habermann, Lingjie Liu, Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Christian Theobalt
Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Abdallah Dib, Cedric Thebault, Junghyun Ahn, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Christian Theobalt, Louis Chevallier
In this paper, we build our work on the aforementioned approaches and propose a new method that greatly improves reconstruction quality and robustness in general scenes.
Ranked #10 on
3D Face Reconstruction
on NoW Benchmark
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Xiaoxiao Long, Cheng Lin, Lingjie Liu, Wei Li, Christian Theobalt, Ruigang Yang, Wenping Wang
We present a novel method for single image depth estimation using surface normal constraints.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Anindita Ghosh, Noshaba Cheema, Cennet Oguz, Christian Theobalt, Philipp Slusallek
Our model can generate plausible pose sequences for short sentences describing single actions as well as long compositional sentences describing multiple sequential and superimposed actions.
1 code implementation • 13 Mar 2021 • Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Abdallah Dib, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Louis Chevallier, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We present an approach for high-quality intuitive editing of the camera viewpoint and scene illumination in a portrait image.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Kripasindhu Sarkar, Lingjie Liu, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
We address these limitations and present a generative model for images of dressed humans offering control over pose, local body part appearance and garment style.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2021 • Kripasindhu Sarkar, Vladislav Golyanik, Lingjie Liu, Christian Theobalt
Photo-realistic re-rendering of a human from a single image with explicit control over body pose, shape and appearance enables a wide range of applications, such as human appearance transfer, virtual try-on, motion imitation, and novel view synthesis.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2021 • Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Lingjie Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Gerard Pons-Moll, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We propose the first approach to automatically and jointly synthesize both the synchronous 3D conversational body and hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech input.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Tolga Birdal, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Leonidas Guibas
We present QuantumSync, the first quantum algorithm for solving a synchronization problem in the context of computer vision.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Kripasindhu Sarkar, Dushyant Mehta, Weipeng Xu, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Human re-rendering from a single image is a starkly under-constrained problem, and state-of-the-art algorithms often exhibit undesired artefacts, such as over-smoothing, unrealistic distortions of the body parts and garments, or implausible changes of the texture.
2 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Edgar Tretschk, Ayush Tewari, Vladislav Golyanik, Michael Zollhöfer, Christoph Lassner, Christian Theobalt
We show that a single handheld consumer-grade camera is sufficient to synthesize sophisticated renderings of a dynamic scene from novel virtual camera views, e. g. a `bullet-time' video effect.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Moritz Kappel, Vladislav Golyanik, Mohamed Elgharib, Jann-Ole Henningson, Hans-Peter Seidel, Susana Castillo, Christian Theobalt, Marcus Magnor
We address these limitations for the first time in the literature and present a new framework which performs high-fidelity and temporally-consistent human motion transfer with natural pose-dependent non-rigid deformations, for several types of loose garments.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Yuxiao Zhou, Marc Habermann, Ikhsanul Habibie, Ayush Tewari, Christian Theobalt, Feng Xu
We present the first method for real-time full body capture that estimates shape and motion of body and hands together with a dynamic 3D face model from a single color image.
Ranked #11 on
3D Hand Pose Estimation
on FreiHAND
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Viktor Rudnev, Vladislav Golyanik, Jiayi Wang, Hans-Peter Seidel, Franziska Mueller, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
Due to the different data modality of event cameras compared to classical cameras, existing methods cannot be directly applied to and re-trained for event streams.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Jae Shin Yoon, Lingjie Liu, Vladislav Golyanik, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Hyun Soo Park, Christian Theobalt
We present a new pose transfer method for synthesizing a human animation from a single image of a person controlled by a sequence of body poses.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Tarun Yenamandra, Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Daniel Cremers, Christian Theobalt
Our approach has the following favorable properties: (i) It is the first full head morphable model that includes hair.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Xiaoxiao Long, Lingjie Liu, Wei Li, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang
We present a novel method for multi-view depth estimation from a single video, which is a critical task in various applications, such as perception, reconstruction and robot navigation.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2020 • Yue Li, Marc Habermann, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Thabo Beeler, Christian Theobalt
Recent monocular human performance capture approaches have shown compelling dense tracking results of the full body from a single RGB camera.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Cristian Sminchisescu, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
Formulating this closed loop is not straightforward because it is not trivial to force the output of the NN to be on the surface of the human model - outside this surface the human model is not even defined.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
Our network design and loss functions ensure a disentangled parameterization of not only identity and albedo, but also, for the first time, an expression basis.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2020 • Sk Aziz Ali, Kerem Kahraman, Christian Theobalt, Didier Stricker, Vladislav Golyanik
This article introduces a new physics-based method for rigid point set alignment called Fast Gravitational Approach (FGA).
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2020 • Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Mallikarjun B R., Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
We present the first approach for embedding real portrait images in the latent space of StyleGAN, which allows for intuitive editing of the head pose, facial expression, and scene illumination in the image.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Mallikarjun B R., Ayush Tewari, Tae-Hyun Oh, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
The reflectance field of a face describes the reflectance properties responsible for complex lighting effects including diffuse, specular, inter-reflection and self shadowing.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2020 • Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt
We, therefore, present PhysCap, the first algorithm for physically plausible, real-time and marker-less human 3D motion capture with a single colour camera at 25 fps.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Edgar Tretschk, Ayush Tewari, Vladislav Golyanik, Michael Zollhöfer, Carsten Stoll, Christian Theobalt
At the level of patches, objects across different categories share similarities, which leads to more generalizable models.
no code implementations • CVPR 2016 • Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Marc Stamminger, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Nießner
Our goal is to animate the facial expressions of the target video by a source actor and re-render the manipulated output video in a photo-realistic fashion.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Lingjie Liu, Jiatao Gu, Kyaw Zaw Lin, Tat-Seng Chua, Christian Theobalt
We also demonstrate several challenging tasks, including multi-scene learning, free-viewpoint rendering of a moving human, and large-scale scene rendering.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Cristian Sminchisescu, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
In this work, we present methodology that combines detail-rich implicit functions and parametric representations in order to reconstruct 3D models of people that remain controllable and accurate even in the presence of clothing.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2020 • Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Christian Theobalt
We propose to use a model-based generative loss for training hand pose estimators on depth images based on a volumetric hand model.
no code implementations • 20 May 2020 • Gereon Fox, Wentao Liu, Hyeongwoo Kim, Hans-Peter Seidel, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt
We introduce a new benchmark dataset for face video forgery detection, of unprecedented quality.
no code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Peng Wang, Lingjie Liu, Nenglun Chen, Hung-Kuo Chu, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang
We propose the first approach that simultaneously estimates camera motion and reconstructs the geometry of complex 3D thin structures in high quality from a color video captured by a handheld camera.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2020 • Ayush Tewari, Ohad Fried, Justus Thies, Vincent Sitzmann, Stephen Lombardi, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Matthias Nießner, Rohit Pandey, Sean Fanello, Gordon Wetzstein, Jun-Yan Zhu, Christian Theobalt, Maneesh Agrawala, Eli Shechtman, Dan B. Goldman, Michael Zollhöfer
Neural rendering is a new and rapidly emerging field that combines generative machine learning techniques with physical knowledge from computer graphics, e. g., by the integration of differentiable rendering into network training.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Jameel Malik, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Ahmed Elhayek, Soshi Shimada, Sk Aziz Ali, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Didier Stricker
The input to our method is a 3D voxelized depth map, and we rely on two hand shape representations.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Xiaoxiao Long, Lingjie Liu, Christian Theobalt, Wenping Wang
We present a new learning-based method for multi-frame depth estimation from a color video, which is a fundamental problem in scene understanding, robot navigation or handheld 3D reconstruction.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Ayush Tewari, Mohamed Elgharib, Gaurav Bharaj, Florian Bernard, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
StyleGAN generates photorealistic portrait images of faces with eyes, teeth, hair and context (neck, shoulders, background), but lacks a rig-like control over semantic face parameters that are interpretable in 3D, such as face pose, expressions, and scene illumination.
2 code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Yuxiao Zhou, Marc Habermann, Weipeng Xu, Ikhsanul Habibie, Christian Theobalt, Feng Xu
We present a novel method for monocular hand shape and pose estimation at unprecedented runtime performance of 100fps and at state-of-the-art accuracy.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Marc Habermann, Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhoefer, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Human performance capture is a highly important computer vision problem with many applications in movie production and virtual/augmented reality.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Florian Bernard, Zeeshan Khan Suri, Christian Theobalt
We present a convex mixed-integer programming formulation for non-rigid shape matching.
no code implementations • 14 Jan 2020 • Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Marc Habermann, Michael Zollhoefer, Florian Bernard, Hyeongwoo Kim, Wenping Wang, Christian Theobalt
In this paper, we propose a novel human video synthesis method that approaches these limiting factors by explicitly disentangling the learning of time-coherent fine-scale details from the embedding of the human in 2D screen space.
no code implementations • ICLR 2020 • Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt, Marc Stamminger, Matthias Nießner
Based on this 3D proxy, the appearance of a captured view can be warped into a new target view as in classical image-based rendering.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Modern adiabatic quantum computers (AQC) are already used to solve difficult combinatorial optimisation problems in various domains of science.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Justus Thies, Mohamed Elgharib, Ayush Tewari, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Nießner
Neural Voice Puppetry has a variety of use-cases, including audio-driven video avatars, video dubbing, and text-driven video synthesis of a talking head.
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2019 • Aljaž Božič, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Nießner
Applying data-driven approaches to non-rigid 3D reconstruction has been difficult, which we believe can be attributed to the lack of a large-scale training corpus.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2019 • Tarun Yenamandra, Florian Bernard, Jiayi Wang, Franziska Mueller, Christian Theobalt
We consider the problem of inverse kinematics (IK), where one wants to find the parameters of a given kinematic skeleton that best explain a set of observed 3D joint locations.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2019 • Hyeongwoo Kim, Mohamed Elgharib, Michael Zollhöfer, Hans-Peter Seidel, Thabo Beeler, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
We present a style-preserving visual dubbing approach from single video inputs, which maintains the signature style of target actors when modifying facial expressions, including mouth motions, to match foreign languages.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2019 • Vladislav Golyanik, André Jonas, Didier Stricker, Christian Theobalt
The reasons for the slow dissemination are the severe ill-posedness, high sensitivity to motion and deformation cues and the difficulty to obtain reliable point tracks in the vast majority of practical scenarios.
1 code implementation • 3 Sep 2019 • Bernhard Egger, William A. P. Smith, Ayush Tewari, Stefanie Wuhrer, Michael Zollhoefer, Thabo Beeler, Florian Bernard, Timo Bolkart, Adam Kortylewski, Sami Romdhani, Christian Theobalt, Volker Blanz, Thomas Vetter
In this paper, we provide a detailed survey of 3D Morphable Face Models over the 20 years since they were first proposed.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Lan Xu, Weipeng Xu, Vladislav Golyanik, Marc Habermann, Lu Fang, Christian Theobalt
The high frame rate is a critical requirement for capturing fast human motions.
6 code implementations • ICCV 2019 • Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Garvita Tiwari, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
We present Multi-Garment Network (MGN), a method to predict body shape and clothing, layered on top of the SMPL model from a few frames (1-8) of a video.
3D Human Pose Estimation
3D Shape Reconstruction From A Single 2D Image
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2019 • Abhimitra Meka, Mohammad Shafiei, Michael Zollhoefer, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
We propose the first approach for the decomposition of a monocular color video into direct and indirect illumination components in real time.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2019 • Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Edgar Tretschk, Didier Stricker, Christian Theobalt
We introduce a supervised-learning framework for non-rigid point set alignment of a new kind - Displacements on Voxels Networks (DispVoxNets) - which abstracts away from the point set representation and regresses 3D displacement fields on regularly sampled proxy 3D voxel grids.
4 code implementations • 1 Jul 2019 • Dushyant Mehta, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Franziska Mueller, Weipeng Xu, Mohamed Elgharib, Pascal Fua, Hans-Peter Seidel, Helge Rhodin, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
The first stage is a convolutional neural network (CNN) that estimates 2D and 3D pose features along with identity assignments for all visible joints of all individuals. We contribute a new architecture for this CNN, called SelecSLS Net, that uses novel selective long and short range skip connections to improve the information flow allowing for a drastically faster network without compromising accuracy.
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1 code implementation • 4 Jun 2019 • Ohad Fried, Ayush Tewari, Michael Zollhöfer, Adam Finkelstein, Eli Shechtman, Dan B. Goldman, Kyle Genova, Zeyu Jin, Christian Theobalt, Maneesh Agrawala
To edit a video, the user has to only edit the transcript, and an optimization strategy then chooses segments of the input corpus as base material.
no code implementations • 26 May 2019 • Mohamed Elgharib, Mallikarjun BR, Ayush Tewari, Hyeongwoo Kim, Wentao Liu, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Our lightweight setup allows operations in uncontrolled environments, and lends itself to telepresence applications such as video-conferencing from dynamic environments.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Edgar Tretschk, Ayush Tewari, Michael Zollhöfer, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt
Mesh autoencoders are commonly used for dimensionality reduction, sampling and mesh modeling.
no code implementations • ICML Workshop Deep_Phenomen 2019 • Dushyant Mehta, Kwang In Kim, Christian Theobalt
We show implicit filter level sparsity manifests in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained using adaptive gradient descent techniques with L2 regularization or weight decay.
no code implementations • 13 May 2019 • Dushyant Mehta, Kwang In Kim, Christian Theobalt
We show implicit filter level sparsity manifests in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained with adaptive gradient descent techniques and L2 regularization or weight decay.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2019 • Soshi Shimada, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt, Didier Stricker
The majority of the existing methods for non-rigid 3D surface regression from monocular 2D images require an object template or point tracks over multiple frames as an input, and are still far from real-time processing rates.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2019 • Thiemo Alldieck, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt, Marcus Magnor
From a partial texture, we estimate detailed normal and vector displacement maps, which can be applied to a low-resolution smooth body model to add detail and clothing.
no code implementations • CVPR 2019 • Ikhsanul Habibie, Weipeng Xu, Dushyant Mehta, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Convolutional Neural Network based approaches for monocular 3D human pose estimation usually require a large amount of training images with 3D pose annotations.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2019 • Thiemo Alldieck, Marcus Magnor, Bharat Lal Bhatnagar, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
We present a learning-based model to infer the personalized 3D shape of people from a few frames (1-8) of a monocular video in which the person is moving, in less than 10 seconds with a reconstruction accuracy of 5mm.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2018 • Kyaw Zaw Lin, Weipeng Xu, Qianru Sun, Christian Theobalt, Tat-Seng Chua
We propose a novel approach to jointly perform 3D shape retrieval and pose estimation from monocular images. In order to make the method robust to real-world image variations, e. g. complex textures and backgrounds, we learn an embedding space from 3D data that only includes the relevant information, namely the shape and pose.
no code implementations • CVPR 2019 • Ayush Tewari, Florian Bernard, Pablo Garrido, Gaurav Bharaj, Mohamed Elgharib, Hans-Peter Seidel, Patrick Pérez, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
In contrast, we propose multi-frame video-based self-supervised training of a deep network that (i) learns a face identity model both in shape and appearance while (ii) jointly learning to reconstruct 3D faces.
no code implementations • CVPR 2019 • Dushyant Mehta, Kwang In Kim, Christian Theobalt
We investigate filter level sparsity that emerges in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained with adaptive gradient descent techniques and L2 regularization or weight decay.
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2018 • Florian Bernard, Johan Thunberg, Paul Swoboda, Christian Theobalt
The matching of multiple objects (e. g. shapes or images) is a fundamental problem in vision and graphics.
no code implementations • 26 Nov 2018 • Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt, Marc Stamminger, Matthias Nießner
Based on this 3D proxy, the appearance of a captured view can be warped into a new target view as in classical image-based rendering.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2018 • Marc Habermann, Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhoefer, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Our method is the first real-time monocular approach for full-body performance capture.
no code implementations • 11 Sep 2018 • Lingjie Liu, Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhoefer, Hyeongwoo Kim, Florian Bernard, Marc Habermann, Wenping Wang, Christian Theobalt
In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of the human, but instead rely on a video sequence in conjunction with a (medium-quality) controllable 3D template model of the person.
1 code implementation • 3 Aug 2018 • Thiemo Alldieck, Marcus Magnor, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video.
no code implementations • 29 May 2018 • Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt, Marc Stamminger, Matthias Nießner
We propose HeadOn, the first real-time source-to-target reenactment approach for complete human portrait videos that enables transfer of torso and head motion, face expression, and eye gaze.
no code implementations • 29 May 2018 • Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Ayush Tewari, Weipeng Xu, Justus Thies, Matthias Nießner, Patrick Pérez, Christian Richardt, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Theobalt
In order to enable source-to-target video re-animation, we render a synthetic target video with the reconstructed head animation parameters from a source video, and feed it into the trained network -- thus taking full control of the target.
no code implementations • ECCV 2018 • Qianru Sun, Ayush Tewari, Weipeng Xu, Mario Fritz, Christian Theobalt, Bernt Schiele
As more and more personal photos are shared and tagged in social media, avoiding privacy risks such as unintended recognition becomes increasingly challenging.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2018 • Florian Bernard, Johan Thunberg, Jorge Goncalves, Christian Theobalt
In order to deal with the inherent non-convexity of the permutation synchronisation problem, we use an initialisation procedure based on a novel rotation scheme applied to the solution of the spectral relaxation.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2018 • Weipeng Xu, Avishek Chatterjee, Michael Zollhoefer, Helge Rhodin, Pascal Fua, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
We tackle these challenges based on a novel lightweight setup that converts a standard baseball cap to a device for high-quality pose estimation based on a single cap-mounted fisheye camera.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2018 • Thiemo Alldieck, Marcus Magnor, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt, Gerard Pons-Moll
This paper describes how to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving.
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Abhimitra Meka, Maxim Maximov, Michael Zollhoefer, Avishek Chatterjee, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
We present the first end to end approach for real time material estimation for general object shapes with uniform material that only requires a single color image as input.
6 code implementations • 9 Dec 2017 • Dushyant Mehta, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Franziska Mueller, Weipeng Xu, Srinath Sridhar, Gerard Pons-Moll, Christian Theobalt
Our approach uses novel occlusion-robust pose-maps (ORPM) which enable full body pose inference even under strong partial occlusions by other people and objects in the scene.
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no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Ayush Tewari, Michael Zollhöfer, Pablo Garrido, Florian Bernard, Hyeongwoo Kim, Patrick Pérez, Christian Theobalt
To alleviate this problem, we present the first approach that jointly learns 1) a regressor for face shape, expression, reflectance and illumination on the basis of 2) a concurrently learned parametric face model.
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Franziska Mueller, Florian Bernard, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
We address the highly challenging problem of real-time 3D hand tracking based on a monocular RGB-only sequence.
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Florian Bernard, Christian Theobalt, Michael Moeller
In this work we study convex relaxations of quadratic optimisation problems over permutation matrices.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2017 • Abhishake Kumar Bojja, Franziska Mueller, Sri Raghu Malireddi, Markus Oberweger, Vincent Lepetit, Christian Theobalt, Kwang Moo Yi, Andrea Tagliasacchi
We propose an automatic method for generating high-quality annotations for depth-based hand segmentation, and introduce a large-scale hand segmentation dataset.
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2017 • Weipeng Xu, Avishek Chatterjee, Michael Zollhöfer, Helge Rhodin, Dushyant Mehta, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Reconstruction from monocular video alone is drastically more challenging, since strong occlusions and the inherent depth ambiguity lead to a highly ill-posed reconstruction problem.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2017 • James Tompkin, Kwang In Kim, Hanspeter Pfister, Christian Theobalt
Large databases are often organized by hand-labeled metadata, or criteria, which are expensive to collect.
1 code implementation • 3 May 2017 • Dushyant Mehta, Srinath Sridhar, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Helge Rhodin, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Weipeng Xu, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
A real-time kinematic skeleton fitting method uses the CNN output to yield temporally stable 3D global pose reconstructions on the basis of a coherent kinematic skeleton.
Ranked #16 on
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on Leeds Sports Poses
no code implementations • ICCV 2017 • Franziska Mueller, Dushyant Mehta, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Srinath Sridhar, Dan Casas, Christian Theobalt
We present an approach for real-time, robust and accurate hand pose estimation from moving egocentric RGB-D cameras in cluttered real environments.
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Hyeongwoo Kim, Michael Zollhöfer, Ayush Tewari, Justus Thies, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
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.
no code implementations • ICCV 2017 • Ayush Tewari, Michael Zollhöfer, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Florian Bernard, Patrick Pérez, Christian Theobalt
In this work we propose a novel model-based deep convolutional autoencoder that addresses the highly challenging problem of reconstructing a 3D human face from a single in-the-wild color image.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt
Marker-based and marker-less optical skeletal motion-capture methods use an outside-in arrangement of cameras placed around a scene, with viewpoints converging on the center.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2016 • Dushyant Mehta, Helge Rhodin, Dan Casas, Pascal Fua, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt
We propose a CNN-based approach for 3D human body pose estimation from single RGB images that addresses the issue of limited generalizability of models trained solely on the starkly limited publicly available 3D pose data.
Ranked #17 on
Pose Estimation
on Leeds Sports Poses
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2016 • Lucas Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt, Günther Greiner
Our extensive experiments and evaluations show that our approach produces high-quality dense reconstructions of 3D geometry and scene flow at real-time frame rates, and compares favorably to the state of the art.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2016 • Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
We propose a new model-based method to accurately reconstruct human performances captured outdoors in a multi-camera setup.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2016 • Srinath Sridhar, Franziska Mueller, Michael Zollhöfer, Dan Casas, Antti Oulasvirta, Christian Theobalt
However, due to difficult occlusions, fast motions, and uniform hand appearance, jointly tracking hand and object pose is more challenging than tracking either of the two separately.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2016 • Hyeongwoo Kim, Christian Richardt, Christian Theobalt
Many compelling video post-processing effects, in particular aesthetic focus editing and refocusing effects, are feasible if per-frame depth information is available.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2016 • Justus Thies, Michael Zollhöfer, Marc Stamminger, Christian Theobalt, Matthias Nießner
Based on reenactment of a prerecorded stereo video of the person without the HMD, FaceVR incorporates photo-realistic re-rendering in real time, thus allowing artificial modifications of face and eye appearances.
no code implementations • 23 Sep 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Christian Richardt, Dan Casas, Eldar Insafutdinov, Mohammad Shafiei, Hans-Peter Seidel, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt
We therefore propose a new method for real-time, marker-less and egocentric motion capture which estimates the full-body skeleton pose from a lightweight stereo pair of fisheye cameras that are attached to a helmet or virtual reality headset.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2016 • Christian Richardt, Hyeongwoo Kim, Levi Valgaerts, Christian Theobalt
We finally refine the computed correspondence fields in a variational scene flow formulation.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2016 • Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Dan Casas, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Our method uses a new image formation model with analytic visibility and analytically differentiable alignment energy.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2016 • Zachary DeVito, Michael Mara, Michael Zollhöfer, Gilbert Bernstein, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Christian Theobalt, Pat Hanrahan, Matthew Fisher, Matthias Nießner
Many graphics and vision problems can be expressed as non-linear least squares optimizations of objective functions over visual data, such as images and meshes.
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2016 • Angela Dai, Matthias Nießner, Michael Zollhöfer, Shahram Izadi, Christian Theobalt
Our approach estimates globally optimized (i. e., bundle adjusted) poses in real-time, supports robust tracking with recovery from gross tracking failures (i. e., relocalization), and re-estimates the 3D model in real-time to ensure global consistency; all within a single framework.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2016 • Matthias Innmann, Michael Zollhöfer, Matthias Nießner, Christian Theobalt, Marc Stamminger
We cast finding the optimal deformation of space as a non-linear regularized variational optimization problem by enforcing local smoothness and proximity to the input constraints.
no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Kwang In Kim, James Tompkin, Hanspeter Pfister, Christian Theobalt
Existing approaches for diffusion on graphs, e. g., for label propagation, are mainly focused on isotropic diffusion, which is induced by the commonly-used graph Laplacian regularizer.
no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Srinath Sridhar, Franziska Mueller, Antti Oulasvirta, Christian Theobalt
In the optimization step, a novel objective function combines the detected part labels and a Gaussian mixture representation of the depth to estimate a pose that best fits the depth.
no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Kwang In Kim, James Tompkin, Hanspeter Pfister, Christian Theobalt
The iterated graph Laplacian enables high-order regularization, but it has a high computational complexity and so cannot be applied to large problems.
no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Helge Rhodin, Nadia Robertini, Christian Richardt, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
Generative reconstruction methods compute the 3D configuration (such as pose and/or geometry) of a shape by optimizing the overlap of the projected 3D shape model with images.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2016 • Srinath Sridhar, Helge Rhodin, Hans-Peter Seidel, Antti Oulasvirta, Christian Theobalt
In this paper, we propose a new approach that tracks the full skeleton motion of the hand from multiple RGB cameras in real-time.
no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Kwang In Kim, James Tompkin, Hanspeter Pfister, Christian Theobalt
In many learning tasks, the structure of the target space of a function holds rich information about the relationships between evaluations of functions on different data points.
no code implementations • CVPR 2014 • Pablo Garrido, Levi Valgaerts, Ole Rehmsen, Thorsten Thormaehlen, Patrick Perez, Christian Theobalt
We propose an image-based, facial reenactment system that replaces the face of an actor in an existing target video with the face of a user from a source video, while preserving the original target performance.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2016 • Nadia Robertini, Edilson de Aguiar, Thomas Helten, Christian Theobalt
We present a new effective way for performance capture of deforming meshes with fine-scale time-varying surface detail from multi-view video.
no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Ahmed Elhayek, Edilson de Aguiar, Arjun Jain, Jonathan Tompson, Leonid Pishchulin, Micha Andriluka, Chris Bregler, Bernt Schiele, Christian Theobalt
Our approach unites a discriminative image-based joint detection method with a model-based generative motion tracking algorithm through a combined pose optimization energy.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2015 • Leonid Pishchulin, Stefanie Wuhrer, Thomas Helten, Christian Theobalt, Bernt Schiele
Statistical models of 3D human shape and pose learned from scan databases have developed into valuable tools to solve a variety of vision and graphics problems.