Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction

Abstract The aim is to reconstruct a complete and detailed clothed human from a single‐view input. Implicit function is suitable for this task because it represents fine shape details and varied topology. Current methods, however, often suffer from artefacts such as broken or disembodied body parts,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pengpeng Liu, Guixuan Zhang, Shuwu Zhang, Yuanhao Li, Zhi Zeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-06-01
Series:CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12193
_version_ 1827126638473641984
author Pengpeng Liu
Guixuan Zhang
Shuwu Zhang
Yuanhao Li
Zhi Zeng
author_facet Pengpeng Liu
Guixuan Zhang
Shuwu Zhang
Yuanhao Li
Zhi Zeng
author_sort Pengpeng Liu
collection DOAJ
description Abstract The aim is to reconstruct a complete and detailed clothed human from a single‐view input. Implicit function is suitable for this task because it represents fine shape details and varied topology. Current methods, however, often suffer from artefacts such as broken or disembodied body parts, missing details, or depth ambiguity due to the ambiguity and complexity of human articulation. The main issue observed by the authors is structure‐agnostic. To address these problems, the authors fully utilise the skinned multi‐person linear (SMPL) model and propose a method using the Skeleton‐aware Implicit Function (SIF). To alleviate the broken or disembodied body parts, the proposed skeleton‐aware structure prior makes the skeleton awareness into an implicit function, which consists of a bone‐guided sampling strategy and a skeleton‐relative encoding strategy. To deal with the missing details and depth ambiguity problems, the authors’ body‐guided pixel‐aligned feature exploits the SMPL to enhance 2D normal and depth semantic features, and the proposed feature aggregation uses the extra geometry‐aware prior to enabling a more plausible merging with less noisy geometry. Additionally, SIF is also adapted to the RGB‐D input, and experimental results show that SIF outperforms the state‐of‐the‐arts methods on challenging datasets from Twindom and Thuman3.0.
first_indexed 2024-03-11T13:45:53Z
format Article
id doaj.art-0d857e8b1d2e441eaea9a7400c7dfcc2
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2468-2322
language English
last_indexed 2025-03-20T15:15:47Z
publishDate 2023-06-01
publisher Wiley
record_format Article
series CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
spelling doaj.art-0d857e8b1d2e441eaea9a7400c7dfcc22024-09-05T08:45:44ZengWileyCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology2468-23222023-06-018237938910.1049/cit2.12193Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstructionPengpeng Liu0Guixuan Zhang1Shuwu Zhang2Yuanhao Li3Zhi Zeng4Key Laboratory of Digital Rights Services Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaKey Laboratory of Digital Rights Services Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaKey Laboratory of Digital Rights Services Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaInstitute of Innovative Research Tokyo Institute of Technology Yokohama JapanKey Laboratory of Digital Rights Services Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaAbstract The aim is to reconstruct a complete and detailed clothed human from a single‐view input. Implicit function is suitable for this task because it represents fine shape details and varied topology. Current methods, however, often suffer from artefacts such as broken or disembodied body parts, missing details, or depth ambiguity due to the ambiguity and complexity of human articulation. The main issue observed by the authors is structure‐agnostic. To address these problems, the authors fully utilise the skinned multi‐person linear (SMPL) model and propose a method using the Skeleton‐aware Implicit Function (SIF). To alleviate the broken or disembodied body parts, the proposed skeleton‐aware structure prior makes the skeleton awareness into an implicit function, which consists of a bone‐guided sampling strategy and a skeleton‐relative encoding strategy. To deal with the missing details and depth ambiguity problems, the authors’ body‐guided pixel‐aligned feature exploits the SMPL to enhance 2D normal and depth semantic features, and the proposed feature aggregation uses the extra geometry‐aware prior to enabling a more plausible merging with less noisy geometry. Additionally, SIF is also adapted to the RGB‐D input, and experimental results show that SIF outperforms the state‐of‐the‐arts methods on challenging datasets from Twindom and Thuman3.0.https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.121933D human reconstructiondeep learningneural network
spellingShingle Pengpeng Liu
Guixuan Zhang
Shuwu Zhang
Yuanhao Li
Zhi Zeng
Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
3D human reconstruction
deep learning
neural network
title Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
title_full Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
title_fullStr Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
title_full_unstemmed Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
title_short Skeleton‐aware implicit function for single‐view human reconstruction
title_sort skeleton aware implicit function for single view human reconstruction
topic 3D human reconstruction
deep learning
neural network
url https://doi.org/10.1049/cit2.12193
work_keys_str_mv AT pengpengliu skeletonawareimplicitfunctionforsingleviewhumanreconstruction
AT guixuanzhang skeletonawareimplicitfunctionforsingleviewhumanreconstruction
AT shuwuzhang skeletonawareimplicitfunctionforsingleviewhumanreconstruction
AT yuanhaoli skeletonawareimplicitfunctionforsingleviewhumanreconstruction
AT zhizeng skeletonawareimplicitfunctionforsingleviewhumanreconstruction