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  -