3D Face Reconstruction with the Geometric Guidance of Facial Part Segmentation
Authors: Zidu Wang, Xiangyu Zhu, Tianshuo Zhang, Baiqin Wang, Zhen Lei

3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) provide promising 3D face reconstructions in various applications. However existing methods struggle to reconstruct faces with extreme expressions due to deficiencies in supervisory signals such as sparse or inaccurate landmarks. Segmentation information contains effective geometric contexts for face reconstruction. Certain attempts intuitively depend on differentiable renderers to compare the rendered silhouettes of reconstruction with segmentation which is prone to issues like local optima and gradient instability. In this paper we fully utilize the facial part segmentation geometry by introducing Part Re-projection Distance Loss (PRDL). Specifically PRDL transforms facial part segmentation into 2D points and re-projects the reconstruction onto the image plane. Subsequently by introducing grid anchors and computing different statistical distances from these anchors to the point sets PRDL establishes geometry descriptors to optimize the distribution of the point sets for face reconstruction. PRDL exhibits a clear gradient compared to the renderer-based methods and presents state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments. Our project is available at https://github.com/wang-zidu/3DDFA-V3.