Towards A 3D Virtual Studio for Human Appearance Capture

Starck, J.; Hilton, A.

Towards A 3D Virtual Studio for Human Appearance Capture

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Date

2003

Authors

Starck, J.
Hilton, A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of a ''3D Virtual Studio'' for human appearance capture, akin to the motion capture studio for human motion tracking. Ultimately the 3D Virtual Studio should enable video-realistic reconstruction of a moving person from any viewpoint. A mesh-based stereo technique is presented to reconstruct a moving person from multiple camera views. This technique optimises a surface mesh to match stereo and silhouette data in a constrained coarse-to-fine framework, recovering sub-pixel image correspondence in the presence of inexact camera calibration. We compare this approach for scene reconstruction to conventional shape from silhouette and multiple view stereo. We then demonstrate view-dependent rendering and show improved resolution with the recovered image correspondence. We then demonstrate how this approach can be used to capture the dynamic shape and appearance of a computer graphics model of a person.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:vvg.20031003
,
booktitle = {Vision, Video, and Graphics (VVG) 2003
},
editor = {Peter Hall and Philip Willis
},
title = {{Towards A 3D Virtual Studio for Human Appearance Capture
}},
author = {Starck, J. and 
Hilton, A.
},
year = {2003
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {3-905673-54-1
},
DOI = {10.2312/vvg.20031003
}
}