PKU-DyMVHumans: A Multi-View Video Benchmark for High-Fidelity Dynamic Human Modeling

Xiaoyun Zheng, Liwei Liao, Xufeng Li, Jianbo Jiao, Rongjie Wang, Feng Gao, Shiqi Wang, Ronggang Wang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 22530-22540

High-quality human reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering of a dynamic scene is a long-standing problem in computer vision and graphics. Despite considerable efforts invested in developing various capture systems and reconstruction algorithms recent advancements still struggle with loose or oversized clothing and overly complex poses. In part this is due to the challenges of acquiring high-quality human datasets. To facilitate the development of these fields in this paper we present PKU-DyMVHumans a versatile human-centric dataset for high-fidelity reconstruction and rendering of dynamic human scenarios from dense multi-view videos. It comprises 8.2 million frames captured by more than 56 synchronized cameras across diverse scenarios. These sequences comprise 32 human subjects across 45 different scenarios each with a high-detailed appearance and realistic human motion. Inspired by recent advancements in neural radiance field (NeRF)-based scene representations we carefully set up an off-the-shelf framework that is easy to provide those state-of-the-art NeRF-based implementations and benchmark on PKU-DyMVHumans dataset. It is paving the way for various applications like fine-grained foreground/background decomposition high-quality human reconstruction and photo-realistic novel view synthesis of a dynamic scene. Extensive studies are performed on the benchmark demonstrating new observations and challenges that emerge from using such high-fidelity dynamic data. The project page and data is available at: https://pku-dymvhumans.github.io.