Ricerc@Sapienza

In digital world reconstruction, 2-dimensional surface of real objects are often obtained as polygonal meshes after an acquisition procedure using 3D sensors. However, such representation requires several manual efforts from highly experts to correct the irregularity of tessellation and make it suitable for professional applications, such as those in the gaming or movie industry. Moreover, for modelling and animation purposes it is often required that the same connectivity is shared among two or more different shapes.

In the last decades, we have witnessed advances in both hardware and associated algorithms resulting in unprecedented access to volumes of 2D and, more recently, 3D data capturing human movement. We are no longer satisfied with recovering human pose as an image-space 2D skeleton, but seek to obtain a full 3D human body representation. The main challenges in acquiring 3D human shape from such raw measurements are identifying which parts of the data relate to body measurements and recovering from partial observations, often arising out of severe occlusion.

3D acquisition pipeline delivers 3D digital models accurately representing real-world objects, improving the geometric accuracy and realism of virtual reconstructions. However, even after intensive clean-up, the captured models fall short of many of the requirements imposed by the downstream application, such as video-games, virtual reality, digital movies, etc.