SphereHead: Stable 3D Full-head Synthesis with Spherical Tri-plane Representation

While recent advances in 3D-aware Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have aided the development of near-frontal view human face synthesis, the challenge of comprehensively synthesizing a full 3D head viewable from all angles still persists. Although PanoHead proves the possibilities of using a large-scale dataset with images of both frontal and back views for full-head synthesis, it often causes artifacts for back views. Based on our in-depth analysis, we found the reasons are mainly twofold. First, from network architecture perspective, we found each plane in the utilized tri-plane/tri-grid representation space tends to confuse the features from both sides, causing "mirroring" artifacts (e.g., the glasses appear in the back). Second, from data supervision aspect, we found that existing discriminator training in 3D GANs mainly focuses on the quality of the rendered image itself, and does not care much about its plausibility with the perspective from which it was rendered. This makes it possible to generate "face" in non-frontal views, due to its easiness to fool the discriminator. In response, we propose SphereHead, a novel tri-plane representation in the spherical coordinate system that fits the human head's geometric characteristics and efficiently mitigates many of the generated artifacts. We further introduce a view-image consistency loss for the discriminator to emphasize the correspondence of the camera parameters and the images. The combination of these efforts results in visually superior outcomes with significantly fewer artifacts. Our code and dataset are publicly available at https://lhyfst.github.io/spherehead.

FashionTex: Controllable Virtual Try-on with Text and Texture

Virtual try-on attracts increasing research attention as a promising way for enhancing the user experience for online cloth shopping. Though existing methods can generate impressive results, users need to provide a well-designed reference image containing the target fashion clothes that often do not exist. To support user-friendly fashion customization in full-body portraits, we propose a multi-modal interactive setting by combining the advantages of both text and texture for multi-level fashion manipulation. With the carefully designed fashion editing module and loss functions, FashionTex framework can semantically control cloth types and local texture patterns without annotated pairwise training data. We further introduce an ID recovery module to maintain the identity of input portrait. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of our proposed pipeline.

Registering Explicit to Implicit: Towards High-Fidelity Garment mesh Reconstruction from Single Images

Fueled by the power of deep learning techniques and implicit shape learning, recent advances in single-image human digitalization have reached unprecedented accuracy and could recover fine-grained surface details such as garment wrinkles. However, a common problem for the implicit-based methods is that they cannot produce separated and topology-consistent mesh for each garment piece, which is crucial for the current 3D content creation pipeline. To address this issue, we proposed a novel geometry inference framework ReEF that reconstructs topology-consistent layered garment mesh by registering the explicit garment template to the whole-body implicit fields predicted from single images. Experiments demonstrate that our method notably outperforms its counterparts on single-image layered garment reconstruction and could bring high-quality digital assets for further content creation.

3DCaricShop: A Dataset and A Baseline Method for Single-view 3D Caricature Face Reconstruction

Caricature is an artistic representation that deliberately exaggerates the distinctive features of a human face to convey humor or sarcasm. However, reconstructing a 3D caricature from a 2D caricature image remains a challenging task, mostly due to the lack of data. We propose to fill this gap by introducing 3DCaricShop, the first large-scale 3D caricature dataset that contains 2000 high-quality diversified 3D caricatures manually crafted by professional artists. 3DCaricShop also provides rich annotations including a paired 2D caricature image, camera parameters and 3D facial landmarks. To demonstrate the advantage of 3DCaricShop, we present a novel baseline approach for single-view 3D caricature reconstruction. To ensure a faithful reconstruction with plausible face deformations, we propose to connect the good ends of the detailrich implicit functions and the parametric mesh representations. In particular, we first register a template mesh to the output of the implicit generator and iteratively project the registration result onto a pre-trained PCA space to resolve artifacts and self-intersections. To deal with the large deformation during non-rigid registration, we propose a novel view-collaborative graph convolution network (VCGCN) to extract key points from the implicit mesh for accurate alignment. Our method is able to generate highfidelity 3D caricature in a pre-defined mesh topology that is animation-ready. Extensive experiments have been conducted on 3DCaricShop to verify the significance of the database and the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Learning Inverse Rendering of Faces from Real-world Videos

In this paper we examine the problem of inverse rendering of real face images. Existing methods decompose a face image into three components (albedo, normal, and illumination) by supervised training on synthetic face data. However, due to the domain gap between real and synthetic face images, a model trained on synthetic data often does not generalize well to real data. Meanwhile, since no ground truth for any component is available for real images, it is not feasible to conduct supervised learning on real face images. To alleviate this problem, we propose a weakly supervised training approach to train our model on real face videos, based on the assumption of consistency of albedo and normal across different frames, thus bridging the gap between real and synthetic face images. In addition, we introduce a learning framework, called IlluRes-SfSNet, to further extract the residual map to capture the global illumination effects that give the fine details that are largely ignored in existing methods. Our network is trained on both real and synthetic data, benefiting from both. We comprehensively evaluate our methods on various benchmarks, obtaining better inverse rendering results than the state-of-the-art.

Learning Mutually Local-global U-nets For High-resolution Retinal Lesion Segmentation in Fundus Images

Diabetic retinopathy is the most important complication of diabetes. Early diagnosis of retinal lesions helps to avoid visual loss or blindness. Due to high-resolution and small-size lesion regions, applying existing methods, such as U-Nets, to perform segmentation on fundus photography is very challenging. Although downsampling the input images could simplify the problem, it loses detailed information. Conducting patch-level analysis helps reaching fine-scale segmentation yet usually leads to misunderstanding as the lack of context information. In this paper, we propose an efficient network that combines them together, not only being aware of local details but also taking fully use of the context perceptions. This is implemented by integrating the decoder parts of a global-level U-net and a patch-level one. The two streams are jointly optimized, ensuring that they are enhanced mutually. Experimental results demonstrate our new framework significantly outperforms existing patch-based and global-based methods, especially when the lesion regions are scattered and small-scaled.

CaricatureShop: Personalized and Photorealistic Caricature Sketching

In this paper, we propose the first sketching system for interactively personalized and photorealistic face caricaturing. Input an image of a human face, the users can create caricature photos by manipulating its facial feature curves. Our system firstly performs exaggeration on the recovered 3D face model according to the edited sketches, which is conducted by assigning the laplacian of each vertex a scaling factor. To construct the mapping between 2D sketches and a vertex-wise scaling field, a novel deep learning architecture is developed. With the obtained 3D caricature model, two images are generated, one obtained by applying 2D warping guided by the underlying 3D mesh deformation and the other obtained by re-rendering the deformed 3D textured model. These two images are then seamlessly integrated to produce our final output. Due to the severely stretching of meshes, the rendered texture is of blurry appearances. A deep learning approach is exploited to infer the missing details for enhancing these blurry regions. Moreover, a relighting operation is invented to further improve the photorealism of the result. Both quantitative and qualitative experiment results validated the efficiency of our sketching system and the superiority of our proposed techniques against existing methods.