Internet Based Morphable Model

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013, pp. 3256-3263

In this paper we present a new concept of building a morphable model directly from photos on the Internet. Morphable models have shown very impressive results more than a decade ago, and could potentially have a huge impact on all aspects of face modeling and recognition. One of the challenges, however, is to capture and register 3D laser scans of large number of people and facial expressions. Nowadays, there are enormous amounts of face photos on the Internet, large portion of which has semantic labels. We propose a framework to build a morphable model directly from photos, the framework includes dense registration of Internet photos, as well as, new single view shape reconstruction and modification algorithms.