: Given a single photo as input (far left), we create a 3D animatable version of the subject, which can now walk towards the viewer (middle). The 3D result can be experienced in augmented reality (right); in the result above the user has virtually hung the artwork with a HoloLens headset and can watch the character run out of the painting from different views. Please see all results in the supplementary video: https://youtu.be/G63goXc5MyU. Photo credit: wikiart.org. We present a method and application for animating a human subject from a single photo. E.g., the character can walk out, run, sit, or jump in 3D. The key contributions of this paper are: 1) an application of viewing and animating humans in single photos in 3D, 2) a novel 2D warping method to deform a posable template body model to fit the person's complex silhouette to create an animatable mesh, and 3) a method for handling partial self occlusions. We compare to state-of-the-art related methods and evaluate results with human studies. Further, we present an interactive interface that allows re-posing the person in 3D, and an augmented reality setup where the animated 3D person can emerge from the photo into the real world. We demonstrate the method on photos, posters, and art. The project page is at https
Concurrent to our work, Weng et al. REF present a method to animate a person in 3D from a single image based on the SMPL model and 2D warping.
Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation From a Single Photo
2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Computer Science