PIFu: Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution Clothed Human Digitization

Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Ryota Natsume, Shigeo Morishima, Angjoo Kanazawa, Hao Li; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 2304-2314

Abstract


We introduce Pixel-aligned Implicit Function (PIFu), an implicit representation that locally aligns pixels of 2D images with the global context of their corresponding 3D object. Using PIFu, we propose an end-to-end deep learning method for digitizing highly detailed clothed humans that can infer both 3D surface and texture from a single image, and optionally, multiple input images. Highly intricate shapes, such as hairstyles, clothing, as well as their variations and deformations can be digitized in a unified way. Compared to existing representations used for 3D deep learning, PIFu produces high-resolution surfaces including largely unseen regions such as the back of a person. In particular, it is memory efficient unlike the voxel representation, can handle arbitrary topology, and the resulting surface is spatially aligned with the input image. Furthermore, while previous techniques are designed to process either a single image or multiple views, PIFu extends naturally to arbitrary number of views. We demonstrate high-resolution and robust reconstructions on real world images from the DeepFashion dataset, which contains a variety of challenging clothing types. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on a public benchmark and outperforms the prior work for clothed human digitization from a single image.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Saito_2019_ICCV,
author = {Saito, Shunsuke and Huang, Zeng and Natsume, Ryota and Morishima, Shigeo and Kanazawa, Angjoo and Li, Hao},
title = {PIFu: Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution Clothed Human Digitization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}