"Temporal Upsampling of Performance Geometry using Photometric Alignment"
Cyrus A. Wilson, Abhijeet Ghosh, Pieter Peers, Jen-Yuan Chiang, Jay Busch, and Paul Debevec

ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 29, Issue 2, Article 17, April 2010
Abstract
We present a novel technique for acquiring detailed facial geometry of a dynamic performance using extended spherical gradient illumination. Key to our method is a new algorithm for jointly aligning two photographs - under a gradient illumination condition and its complement - to a full-on tracking frame, providing dense temporal correspondences under changing lighting conditions. We employ a two step algorithm to reconstruct detailed geometry for every captured frame. In the first step, we coalesce information from the gradient illumination frames to the full-on tracking frame, and form a temporally aligned photometric normal map, which is subsequently combined with dense stereo correspondences yielding a detailed geometry. In a second step, we propagate the detailed geometry back to every captured instance guided by the previously computed dense correspondences. We demonstrate reconstructed dynamic facial geometry, captured using moderate to video rates of acquisition, for every captured frame.


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@article{Wilson:2010:TUP,
author = {Wilson, Cyrus A. and Ghosh, Abhijeet and Peers, Pieter and Chiang, Jen-Yuan and Busch, Jay and Debevec, Paul},
title = {Temporal Upsampling of Performance Geometry using Photometric Alignment},
month = {April},
year = {2010},
articleno = {17},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
volume = {29},
number = {2},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1731047.1731055},
}