3D Face Reconstruction

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

11 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

1 subtask in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 83 papers with code (211 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
  2 Dec 2016 110 repositories listed Syntology ran 89 of 164 samples · 75 unverified · 90 pointer-only (licence)
  Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure.
• Facial Key Points Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Network - NaimishNet
  3 Oct 2017 19 repositories listed
  It involves predicting the co-ordinates of the FKPs, e.
• RetinaFace: Single-Shot Multi-Level Face Localisation in the Wild
  1 Jun 2020 9 repositories listed
  Though tremendous strides have been made in uncontrolled face detection, accurate and efficient 2D face alignment and 3D face reconstruction in-the-wild remain an open challenge.
• Learning a model of facial shape and expression from 4D scans
  1 Nov 2017 9 repositories listed
  FLAME is low-dimensional but more expressive than the FaceWarehouse model and the Basel Face Model.
• YouTube-8M: A Large-Scale Video Classification Benchmark
  27 Sep 2016 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified
  Despite the size of the dataset, some of our models train to convergence in less than a day on a single machine using TensorFlow.
• Regressing Robust and Discriminative 3D Morphable Models with a very Deep Neural Network
  15 Dec 2016 5 repositories listed
  The 3D shapes of faces are well known to be discriminative.
• Perspective Reconstruction of Human Faces by Joint Mesh and Landmark Regression
  15 Aug 2022 4 repositories listed
  Even though 3D face reconstruction has achieved impressive progress, most orthogonal projection-based face reconstruction methods can not achieve accurate and consistent reconstruction results when the face is very…
• Synergy between 3DMM and 3D Landmarks for Accurate 3D Facial Geometry
  19 Oct 2021 4 repositories listed
  Our synergy process leverages a representation cycle for 3DMM parameters and 3D landmarks.
• Accurate 3D Face Reconstruction with Weakly-Supervised Learning: From Single Image to Image Set
  20 Mar 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 11 of 36 samples · 25 unverified
  Recently, deep learning based 3D face reconstruction methods have shown promising results in both quality and efficiency.
• Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with Position Map Regression Network
  21 Mar 2018 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 10 samples · 10 unverified
  We propose a straightforward method that simultaneously reconstructs the 3D facial structure and provides dense alignment.
• Towards Fast, Accurate and Stable 3D Dense Face Alignment
  21 Sep 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 10 samples · 4 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Firstly, on the basis of a lightweight backbone, we propose a meta-joint optimization strategy to dynamically regress a small set of 3DMM parameters, which greatly enhances speed and accuracy simultaneously.
• Towards High-Fidelity 3D Face Reconstruction from In-the-Wild Images Using Graph Convolutional Networks
  12 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 15 samples · 11 unverified
  In this paper, we introduce a method to reconstruct 3D facial shapes with high-fidelity textures from single-view images in-the-wild, without the need to capture a large-scale face texture database.
• 3D Face Reconstruction with the Geometric Guidance of Facial Part Segmentation
  1 Dec 2023 2 repositories listed
  In this paper, we fully utilize the facial part segmentation geometry by introducing Part Re-projection Distance Loss (PRDL).
• FaceDNeRF: Semantics-Driven Face Reconstruction, Prompt Editing and Relighting with Diffusion Models
  1 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  The ability to create high-quality 3D faces from a single image has become increasingly important with wide applications in video conferencing, AR/VR, and advanced video editing in movie industries.
• HairMapper: Removing Hair From Portraits Using GANs
  1 Jan 2022 2 repositories listed
  Removing hair from portrait images is challenging due to the complex occlusions between hair and face, as well as the lack of paired portrait data with/without hair.
• Pre-training strategies and datasets for facial representation learning
  30 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  Recent work on Deep Learning in the area of face analysis has focused on supervised learning for specific tasks of interest (e.
• Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images
  7 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed
  Some methods produce faces that cannot be realistically animated because they do not model how wrinkles vary with expression.
• Learning to Regress 3D Face Shape and Expression from an Image without 3D Supervision
  16 May 2019 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 6 samples · 6 unverified
  The estimation of 3D face shape from a single image must be robust to variations in lighting, head pose, expression, facial hair, makeup, and occlusions.
• 3D Face Reconstruction from A Single Image Assisted by 2D Face Images in the Wild
  22 Mar 2019 2 repositories listed
  3D face reconstruction from a single 2D image is a challenging problem with broad applications.
• Unsupervised Training for 3D Morphable Model Regression
  15 Jun 2018 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 13 samples · 13 unverified
  We train a regression network using these objectives, a set of unlabeled photographs, and the morphable model itself, and demonstrate state-of-the-art results.
• Unrestricted Facial Geometry Reconstruction Using Image-to-Image Translation
  29 Mar 2017 2 repositories listed
  It has been recently shown that neural networks can recover the geometric structure of a face from a single given image.
• 3D Face Reconstruction Error Decomposed: A Modular Benchmark for Fair and Fast Method Evaluation
  23 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Furthermore, we propose a new component, namely correction, and present a computationally efficient approach that penalizes for mesh topology inconsistency.
• Learning Person-Specific Animatable Face Models from In-the-Wild Images via a Shared Base Model
  1 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  These person-specific models excel at capturing individual facial shapes and detailed features while preserving the robustness and prior knowledge of detail variations from the base model.
• 3D-GANTex: 3D Face Reconstruction with StyleGAN3-based Multi-View Images and 3DDFA based Mesh Generation
  21 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  This paper tries to tackle this problem by introducing a novel method for texture estimation from a single image by first using StyleGAN and 3D Morphable Models.
• MPF-GAN: an enhanced architecture for 3D face reconstruction
  10 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  The results show that our multi-task learning approach significantly improves the loss function for delicate facial parts, thus enhancing the quality of reconstruction in these specific areas.
• 3D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesis
  5 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Instead, SMIRK replaces the differentiable rendering with a neural rendering module that, given the rendered predicted mesh geometry, and sparsely sampled pixels of the input image, generates a face image.
• 3D Face Reconstruction Using A Spectral-Based Graph Convolution Encoder
  8 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  To overcome this limitation and enhance the reconstruction of 3D structural features, we propose an innovative approach that integrates existing 2D features with 3D features to guide the model learning process.
• Eye Motion Matters for 3D Face Reconstruction
  18 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Recent advances in single-image 3D face reconstruction have shown remarkable progress in various applications.
• UV-IDM: Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Face UV-Texture Generation
  1 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  To solve these problems we introduce an Identity-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for face UV-texture generation (UV-IDM) to generate photo-realistic textures based on the Basel Face Model (BFM).
• Instant Multi-View Head Capture through Learnable Registration
  12 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  We use raw MVS scans as supervision during training, but, once trained, TEMPEH directly predicts 3D heads in dense correspondence without requiring scans.

Syntology lines on 9 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.