Thiemo Alldieck (Guest)

We present a simple yet effective method to infer detailed full human body
shape from only a single photograph. Our model can infer full-body shape
including face, hair, and clothing including wrinkles at interactive
frame-rates. Results feature details even on parts that are occluded in the
input image. Our main idea is to turn shape regression into an aligned
image-to-image translation problem. The input to our method is a partial
texture map of the visible region obtained from off-the-shelf methods. From a
partial texture, we estimate detailed normal and vector displacement maps,
which can be applied to a low-resolution smooth body model to add detail and
clothing. Despite being trained purely with synthetic data, our model
generalizes well to real-world photographs. Numerous results demonstrate the
versatility and robustness of our method.