Dynamic Surface Function Networks for Clothed Human Bodies

2021

Conference Paper

ncs

We present a novel method for temporal coherent reconstruction and tracking of clothed humans. Given a monocular RGB-D sequence, we learn a person-specific body model which is based on a dynamic surface function network. To this end, we explicitly model the surface of the person using a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) which is embedded into the canonical space of the SMPL body model. With classical forward rendering, the represented surface can be rasterized using the topology of a template mesh. For each surface point of the template mesh, the MLP is evaluated to predict the actual surface location. To handle pose-dependent deformations, the MLP is conditioned on the SMPL pose parameters. We show that this surface representation as well as the pose parameters can be learned in a self-supervised fashion using the principle of analysis-by-synthesis and differentiable rasterization. As a result, we are able to reconstruct a temporally coherent mesh sequence from the input data. The underlying surface representation can be used to synthesize new animations of the reconstructed person including pose-dependent deformations.

@inproceedings{burov2021dsfn,
  title = {Dynamic Surface Function Networks for Clothed Human Bodies},
  author = {Burov, Andrei and Nie{\ss}ner, Matthias and Thies, Justus},
  booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  month = oct,
  year = {2021},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {10}
}