Instant Volumetric Head Avatars

We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic neural radiance field based on neural graphics primitives embedded around a parametric face model. Our pipeline is trained on a single monoc...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Proceedings (IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Online) pp. 4574 - 4584
Main Authors: Zielonka, Wojciech, Bolkart, Timo, Thies, Justus
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.06.2023
Subjects:
3D from multi-view and sensors
Avatars
Face recognition
Geometry
Pipelines
Telepresence
Three-dimensional displays
Training
ISSN:1063-6919
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic neural radiance field based on neural graphics primitives embedded around a parametric face model. Our pipeline is trained on a single monocular RGB portrait video that observes the subject under different expressions and views. While state-of-the-art methods take up to several days to train an avatar, our method can reconstruct a digital avatar in less than 10 minutes on modern GPU hardware, which is orders of magnitude faster than previous solutions. In addition, it allows for the interactive rendering of novel poses and expressions. By leveraging the geometry prior of the underlying parametric face model, we demonstrate that INSTA extrapolates to unseen poses. In quantitative and qualitative studies on various subjects, INSTA outperforms state-of-the-art methods regarding rendering quality and training time. Project website: https://zielon.github.io/insta/
ISSN:1063-6919
DOI:10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00444