TIFu: Tri-directional Implicit Function for High-Fidelity 3D Character Reconstruction

Byoungsung Lim; Seong-Whan Lee

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TIFu: Tri-directional Implicit Function for High-Fidelity 3D Character Reconstruction

Byoungsung Lim·Seong-Whan Lee

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Abstract

Recent advances in implicit function-based approaches have shown promising results in 3D human reconstruction from a single RGB image. However, these methods are not sufficient to extend to more general cases, often generating dragged or disconnected body parts, particularly for animated characters. We argue that these limitations stem from the use of the existing point-level 3D shape representation, which lacks holistic 3D context understanding. Voxel-based reconstruction methods are more suitable for capturing the entire 3D space at once, however, these methods are not practical for high-resolution reconstructions due to their excessive memory usage. To address these challenges, we introduce Tri-directional Implicit Function (TIFu), which is a vector-level representation that increases global 3D consistencies while significantly reducing memory usage compared to voxel representations. We also introduce a new algorithm in 3D reconstruction at an arbitrary resolution by aggregating vectors along three orthogonal axes, resolving inherent problems with regressing fixed dimension of vectors. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performances in both our self-curated character dataset and the benchmark 3D human dataset. We provide both quantitative and qualitative analyses to support our findings.

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Byoungsung Lim, Seong-Whan Lee. 2024-01-25. TIFu: Tri-directional Implicit Function for High-Fidelity 3D Character Reconstruction. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14565

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