Local Deformation Models for Monocular 3D Shape Recovery

Mathieu Salzmann	Raquel Urtasun	Pascal Fua
EPFL - CVLab	UC Berkeley - EECS & ICSI	EPFL - CVLab
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland	MIT - EECS & CSAIL	1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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In each video, we show, on the left, the recovered surface reprojected in red on the original images, and, on the right, the same mesh seen from a different viewpoint.

cardboard_uniform.avi: Shape recovery of a uniform sheet of cardboard. The recovered surface is only one of a whole family of equally likely shapes.
cardboard_square.avi: Adding very little texture is sufficient to disambiguate the reconstruction.
cardboard_texture.avi: More complex deformations of a more textured sheet of cardboard.
cardboard_circular.avi: Local deformation models can be combined to model different shapes, e.g. a circular one.
cardboard_occlusion.avi: Our local models are robust enough to reconstruct surfaces despite large occlusions.
napkin_1.avi: Another local model was learned and replicated to model a more flexible paper tissue napkin.
napkin_2.avi: Same napkin undergoing a different deformation.
napkin_hole.avi: Combining local models allows us to reconstruct surfaces of different topologies, e.g. a napkin with a hole.