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Total Capture: A 3D Deformation Model for Tracking Faces, Hands, and Bodies

June 18, 2018

Abstract

We present a unified deformation model for the markerless capture of human movement at multiple scales, including facial expressions, body motion, and hand gestures. An initial model is generated by locally stitching together models of the individual parts of the human body, which we refer to as “Frank”. This model enables the full expression of part movements, including face and hands, by a single seamless model. We capture a dataset of people wearing everyday clothes and optimize the Frank model to create “Adam”: a calibrated model that shares the same skeleton hierarchy as the initial model with a simpler parameterization. Finally, we demonstrate the use of these models for total motion tracking in a multiview setup, simultaneously capturing the large-scale body movements and the subtle face and hand motion of a social group of people.

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