Super-resolution 3D Human Shape from a Single Low-Resolution Image



256x256 input

SuRS front reconstruction

SuRS back reconstruction
Abstract

We propose a novel framework to reconstruct super-resolution human shape from a single low-resolution input image. The approach overcomes limitations of existing approaches that reconstruct 3D human shape from a single image, which require high-resolution images together with auxiliary data such as surface normal or a parametric model to reconstruct high-detail shape. The proposed framework represents the reconstructed shape with a high-detail implicit function. Analogous to the objective of 2D image super-resolution, the approach learns the mapping from a low-resolution shape to its high-resolution counterpart and it is applied to reconstruct 3D shape detail from low-resolution images. The approach is trained end-to-end employing a novel loss function which estimates the information lost between a low and high-resolution representation of the same 3D surface shape. Evaluation for single image reconstruction of clothed people demonstrates that our method achieves high-detail surface reconstruction from low-resolution (256x256) images without auxiliary data. Extensive experiments show that the proposed approach can estimate super-resolution human geometries with a significantly higher level of detail than that obtained with previous approaches when applied to low-resolution images.
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Citation

Marco Pesavento, Marco Volino, and Adrian Hilton, "Super-resolution 3D Human Shape from a Single Low-Resolution Image", IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

Bibtex
@inproceedings{pesavento2022super,
  title={Super-Resolution 3D Human Shape from a Single Low-Resolution Image},
  author={Pesavento, Marco and Volino, Marco and Hilton, Adrian},
  booktitle={Computer Vision--ECCV 2022: 17th European Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23--27, 2022, Proceedings, Part II},
  pages={447--464},
  year={2022},
  organization={Springer}
}