Fake It Till You Make It: Microsoft synthetic face images dataset

9 October 2021

Fake It Till You Make It: Microsoft synthetic face images dataset

Microsoft has introduced a dataset of synthetic facial images Fake It Till You Make It. The dataset is aimed at pre-training facial recognition algorithms before being used in real-world scenarios.…

China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

25 February 2019
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China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

Few months after China presented the world’s first AI news anchor, official state-run press agency Xinhua announced the first female AI news anchor. The news anchor bot, named Xin Xiaomeng…

3D Hair Reconstruction Out of In-the-Wild Videos

22 October 2018
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3D Hair Reconstruction Out of In-the-Wild Videos

3D hair reconstruction is a problem with numerous applications in different areas such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, video games, medical software, etc. As a non-trivial problem, researchers have proposed…

Head Reconstruction from Internet Photos

15 October 2018
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Head Reconstruction from Internet Photos

Methods that reconstruct 3D models of people’s heads from images need to account for varying 3D pose, lighting, non-rigid changes due to expressions, relatively smooth surfaces of faces, ears, and…

Learning 3D Face Morphable Model Out of 2D Images

5 September 2018
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Learning 3D Face Morphable Model Out of 2D Images

The 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) is a statistical model of 3D facial shape and texture. 3D Morphable Models have various applications in many fields including computer vision, computer graphics, human…

Facial Surface and Texture Synthesis via GAN

3 September 2018
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Facial Surface and Texture Synthesis via GAN

Deep networks can be extremely powerful and effective in answering complex questions. But it is also well-known that in order to train a really complex model, you’ll need lots and…

DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling

28 August 2018

DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling

Realistic garment reconstruction is notoriously a complex problem and its importance is undeniable in many research work and applications, such as accurate body shape and pose estimation in the wild…

New Approach to Recovering 3D Shape Structure from a Single 2D Image

27 July 2018
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New Approach to Recovering 3D Shape Structure from a Single 2D Image

Single-view image-based 3D modeling is a topic of particular interest the last few years. That’s likely due to the tremendous success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on image-based learning…

Realistic 3D Avatars from a Single Image

27 July 2018
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Realistic 3D Avatars from a Single Image

Digital media needs realistic 3D avatars with faces. The recent surge in augmented and virtual reality platforms has created an even stronger demand for high-quality content, and rendering realistic faces…

3D Hair Reconstruction Out of a Single Image

10 July 2018
3D Hair Reconstruction Out of a Single Image

3D Hair Reconstruction Out of a Single Image

Generating a realistic 3D model of an object out from 2D data represents a challenging task and this problem has been explored by many researchers in the past. The creation…

Spherical CNN Kernels for 3D Point Clouds

30 May 2018
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Spherical CNN Kernels for 3D Point Clouds

From a data structure point of view, point clouds are unordered sets of vectors. They are specific and differ very much from other data types such as images and videos.…