We tackle the problem of highly-accurate, holistic performance capture for the face, body and hands simultaneously. Motion-capture technologies used in film and game production typically focus only on face, body or hand capture independently, involve complex and expensive hardware and a high degree of manual intervention from skilled operators. While machine-learning-based approaches exist to overcome these problems, they usually only support a single camera, often operate on a single part of the body, do not produce precise world-space results, and rarely generalize outside specific contexts. In this work, we introduce the first technique for marker-free, high-quality reconstruction of the complete human body, including eyes and tongue, without requiring any calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware. Our approach produces stable world-space results from arbitrary camera rigs as well as supporting varied capture environments and clothing. We achieve this through a hybrid approach that leverages machine learning models trained exclusively on synthetic data and powerful parametric models of human shape and motion. We evaluate our method on a number of body, face and hand reconstruction benchmarks and demonstrate state-of-the-art results that generalize on diverse datasets.
@article{arxiv.2410.11520,
title = {Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle},
author = {Charlie Hewitt and Fatemeh Saleh and Sadegh Aliakbarian and Lohit Petikam and Shideh Rezaeifar and Louis Florentin and Zafiirah Hosenie and Thomas J Cashman and Julien Valentin and Darren Cosker and Tadas Baltrusaitis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11520},
year = {2024}
}