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Deep Non-Rigid Structure from Motion (arxiv.org)
1 point by sel1 on Aug 4, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: From just 2D point tracks across many images, a layered network recovers camera poses and the moving 3D shape, learning shape building blocks at each layer. It handles far more images and wilder shape changes, cutting errors by an order of magnitude versus earlier methods.

Abstract

Current non-rigid structure from motion (NRSfM) algorithms are mainly limited with respect to: (i) the number of images, and (ii) the type of shape variability they can handle. This has hampered the practical utility of NRSfM for many applications within vision. In this paper we propose a novel deep neural network to recover camera poses and 3D points solely from an ensemble of 2D image coordinates. The proposed neural network is mathematically interpretable as a multi-layer block sparse dictionary learning problem, and can handle problems of unprecedented scale and shape complexity. Extensive experiments demonstrate the impressive performance of our approach where we exhibit superior precision and robustness against all available state-of-the-art works in the order of magnitude. We further propose a quality measure (based on the network weights) which circumvents the need for 3D ground-truth to ascertain the confidence we have in the reconstruction.

Chen Kong, Simon Lucey
arXiv:1908.00052 · cs.CV · submitted Jul 30, 2019 · updated Aug 11, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Oral Paper in ICCV 2019. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.10840, arXiv:1907.13123

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