We present a method for the fast 3D face reconstruction of people wearing glasses. Our method explicitly and robustly models the case in which a face to be reconstructed is partially occluded by glasses. We propose a simple and generic model for glasses that copes with a wide variety of different shapes, colors and styles, without the need for any database or learning. Our algorithm is simple, fast and requires only small amounts of both memory and runtime resources, allowing for a fast interactive 3D reconstruction on commodity mobile phones. The thorough evaluation of our approach on synthetic and real data demonstrates superior reconstruction results due to the explicit modeling of glasses.

Surface reconstruction from a point cloud is a standard subproblem in many algorithms for dense 3D reconstruction from RGB images or depth maps. Methods, performing only local operations in the vicinity of individual points, are very fast, but reconstructed models typically contain lots of holes. On the other hand, regularized volumetric approaches, formulated as a global optimization, are typically too slow for real-time interactive applications. We propose to use a regression forest based method, which predicts the projection of a grid point to the surface, depending on the spatial configuration of point density in the grid point neighborhood. We designed a suitable feature vector and efficient oct-tree based GPU evaluation, capable of predicting surface of high resolution 3D models in milliseconds. Our method learns and predicts surfaces from an observed point cloud sparser than the evaluation grid, and therefore effectively acts as a regularizer.

We present a system which is able to reconstruct human faces on mobile devices with only on-device processing using the sensors which are typically built into a current commodity smart phone. Such technology can for example be used for facial authentication purposes or as a fast preview for further post-processing. Our method uses recently proposed techniques which compute depth maps by passive multi-view stereo directly on the device. We propose an efficient method which recovers the geometry of the face from the typically noisy point cloud. First, we show that we can safely restrict the reconstruction to a 2.5D height map representation. Therefore we then propose a novel low dimensional height map shape model for faces which can be fitted to the input data efficiently even on a mobile phone. In order to be able to represent instance specific shape details, such as moles, we augment the reconstruction from the shape model with a distance map which can be regularized efficiently. We thoroughly evaluate our approach on synthetic and real data, thereby we use both high resolution depth data acquired using high quality multi-view stereo and depth data directly computed on mobile phones.