Applied monocular reconstruction of parametric faces with domain engineering

Understand

Many modern online 3D applications and videogames rely on parametric models of human faces for creating believable avatars.

• However, manual reproduction of someone's facial likeness with a parametric model is difficult and time-consuming.
• Machine Learning solution for that task is highly desirable but is also challenging.
• The paper proposes a novel approach to the so-called Face-to-Parameters problem (F2P for short), aiming to reconstruct a parametric face from a single image.