Novel-View Synthesis of Human Tourist Photos

Jonathan Freer, Kwang Moo Yi, Wei Jiang, Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang

Abstract: We present a novel framework for performing novel-view synthesis on human tourist photos. Given a tourist photo from a known scene, we reconstruct the photo in 3D space through modeling the human and the background independently. We generate a deep buffer from a novel viewpoint of the reconstruction and utilize a deep network to translate the buffer into a photo-realistic rendering of the novel view. We additionally present a method to relight the renderings, allowing for relighting of both human and background to match either the provided input image or any other. The key contributions of our paper are: 1) a framework for performing novel view synthesis on human tourist photos, 2) an appearance transfer method for relighting of humans to match synthesized backgrounds, and 3) a method for estimating lighting properties from a single human photo. We demonstrate the proposed framework on photos from two different scenes of various tourists.