Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-held Video Input (SIGGRAPH 2015)

SIGGRAPH 2015 Technical Paper by Alexandru E. Ichim, Sofien Bouaziz, and Mark Pauly webpage: We present a complete pipeline for creating fully rigged, personalized 3D facial avatars from hand-held video. Our system faithfully recovers facial expression dynamics of the user by adapting a blendshape template to an image sequence of recorded expressions using an optimization that integrates feature tracking, optical flow, and shape from shading. Fine-