3D Reconstruction of Human Faces from Occluding Contours

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Michael Keller, Reinhard Knothe, Thomas Vetter

Published: 2007, Last Modified: 23 Feb 2026MIRAGE 2007EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: In this paper we take a fresh look at the problem of extracting shape from contours of human faces. We focus on two key questions: how can we robustly fit a 3D face model to a given input contour; and, how much information about shape does a single contour image convey.