Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

3D Menagerie: Modeling the 3D Shape and Pose of Animals

2017

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There has been significant work on learning realistic, articulated, 3D models of the human body. In contrast, there are few such models of animals, despite many applications. The main challenge is that animals are much less cooperative than humans. The best human body models are learned from thousands of 3D scans of people in specific poses, which is infeasible with live animals. Consequently, we learn our model from a small set of 3D scans of toy figurines in arbitrary poses. We employ a novel part-based shape model to compute an initial registration to the scans. We then normalize their pose, learn a statistical shape model, and refine the registrations and the model together. In this way, we accurately align animal scans from different quadruped families with very different shapes and poses. With the registration to a common template we learn a shape space representing animals including lions, cats, dogs, horses, cows and hippos. Animal shapes can be sampled from the model, posed, animated, and fit to data. We demonstrate generalization by fitting it to images of real animals including species not seen in training.

Author(s): Silvia Zuffi and Angjoo Kanazawa and David Jacobs and Michael J. Black
Book Title: Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017
Pages: 5524--5532
Year: 2017
Month: July
Day: 21-26
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Research Project(s): Animal Shape and Pose
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Event Name: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Event Place: Honolulu, HI, USA

ISBN: 978-1-5386-0457-1
ISSN: 1063-6919

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@inproceedings{Zuffi:CVPR:2017,
  title = {{3D} Menagerie: Modeling the {3D} Shape and Pose of Animals},
  author = {Zuffi, Silvia and Kanazawa, Angjoo and Jacobs, David and Black, Michael J.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2017},
  pages = {5524--5532},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  month = jul,
  year = {2017},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {7}
}