Real-Time 3D Face Reconstruction From Single Image Using End-To-End Cnn Regression

This paper presents a learning-based method for detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single unconstrained image. The core of our method is an end-to-end multi-task network architecture. The purpose of the proposed network is to predict a geometric representation of 3D face from a given facial image. Unlike most existing reconstruction methods using low-dimension morphable models, we propose a pixel-based multi-scale representation of a detailed 3D face to ensure that our reconstruction results are not limited by the expressiveness of linear models. We break the task of high-fidelity face reconstruction into three subtasks, which are face region segmentation, coarse-scale reconstruction and detail recovery. So the end-to-end network is constructed as a multi-task mode, which contains three subtask networks to deal with different subtasks respectively. A backbone network with feature pyramid structure is proposed as well to provide different levels of feature maps required by the three subtask networks. We train our end-to-end network in the spirit of the recent photo-realistic data generation approach. The experimental results demonstrate that our method can work with totally unconstrained images and produce high-quality reconstruction but with less runtime compared to the state-of-the-art.