Photo-realistic 360 Head Avatars in the Wild

Understand

Delivering immersive, 3D experiences for human communication requires a method to obtain 360 degree photo-realistic avatars of humans.

• To make these experiences accessible to all, only commodity hardware, like mobile phone cameras, should be necessary to capture the data needed for avatar creation.
• For avatars to be rendered realistically from any viewpoint, we require training images and camera poses from all angles.
• However, we cannot rely on there being trackable features in the foreground or background of all images for use in estimating poses, especially from the side or back of the head.