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Photometric Mesh Optimization for Video-Aligned 3D Object Reconstruction

20 Mar 2019CVPR 2019 6arXiv:1903.08642archive 2025-07-28

Chen-Hsuan Lin, Oliver Wang, Bryan C. Russell, Eli Shechtman, Vladimir G. Kim, Matthew Fisher, Simon Lucey

In this paper, we address the problem of 3D object mesh reconstruction from RGB videos. Our approach combines the best of multi-view geometric and data-driven methods for 3D reconstruction by optimizing object meshes for multi-view photometric consistency while constraining mesh deformations with a shape prior. We pose this as a piecewise image alignment problem for each mesh face projection. Our approach allows us to update shape parameters from the photometric error without any depth or mask information. Moreover, we show how to avoid a degeneracy of zero photometric gradients via rasterizing from a virtual viewpoint. We demonstrate 3D object mesh reconstruction results from both synthetic and real-world videos with our photometric mesh optimization, which is unachievable with either na\"ive mesh generation networks or traditional pipelines of surface reconstruction without heavy manual post-processing.

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