TY - CONF TI - 3D facial merging for virtual human reconstruction ID - upm30500 T2 - 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON) SP - 1 AV - public UR - https://oa.upm.es/30500/ PB - IEEE Y1 - 2012/// M2 - Zurich, Switzerland KW - 3D reconstruction KW - human 3D models KW - visual hull KW - structured light KW - 3D mesh merging EP - 4 N2 - There is an increasing need of easy and affordable technologies to automatically generate virtual 3D models from their real counterparts. In particular, 3D human reconstruction has driven the creation of many clever techniques, most of them based on the visual hull (VH) concept. Such techniques do not require expensive hardware; however, they tend to yield 3D humanoids with realistic bodies but mediocre faces, since VH cannot handle concavities. On the other hand, structured light projectors allow to capture very accurate depth data, and thus to reconstruct realistic faces, but they are too expensive to use several of them. We have developed a technique to merge a VH-based 3D mesh of a reconstructed humanoid and the depth data of its face, captured by a single structured light projector. By combining the advantages of both systems in a simple setting, we are able to reconstruct realistic 3D human models with believable faces. A1 - Pages Scasso, Rafael A1 - Morán Burgos, Francisco ER -