Title: Acquiring Computer Graphics Models of People

Abstract: Computer generated imagery and 3D models are a core component of modern scientific analysis, entertainment, and communication of ideas. Unfortunately, most methods for creating sufficiently complex models rely heavily on tedious manual specification and skilled artists. Acquiring models directly from the real world allows us to leverage and explore the phenomenal complexity of nature. this talk will present the results of several projects for recovering computer graphics models directly from the real world. Space-time stereo generalizes several recovery methods into a single framework. This has allowed the shape of deforming objects to be recovered at a higher quality than was previously possible. I'll also discuss constructing an animatable model of the space of all human shapes and poses. we scanned a bunch of people at high resolution, brought the models into correspondence, and thn built a model which predicts body surface shape as a function of identity and pose.

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