Generating 3D Faces using Multi-column Graph Convolutional Networks

dc.contributor.authorLi, Kunen_US
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jingyingen_US
dc.contributor.authorLai, Yu-Kunen_US
dc.contributor.authorYang, Jingyuen_US
dc.contributor.editorLee, Jehee and Theobalt, Christian and Wetzstein, Gordonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-14T05:06:59Z
dc.date.available2019-10-14T05:06:59Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn this work, we introduce multi-column graph convolutional networks (MGCNs), a deep generative model for 3D mesh surfaces that effectively learns a non-linear facial representation. We perform spectral decomposition of meshes and apply convolutions directly in the frequency domain. Our network architecture involves multiple columns of graph convolutional networks (GCNs), namely large GCN (L-GCN), medium GCN (M-GCN) and small GCN (S-GCN), with different filter sizes to extract features at different scales. L-GCN is more useful to extract large-scale features, whereas S-GCN is effective for extracting subtle and fine-grained features, and M-GCN captures information in between. Therefore, to obtain a high-quality representation, we propose a selective fusion method that adaptively integrates these three kinds of information. Spatially non-local relationships are also exploited through a self-attention mechanism to further improve the representation ability in the latent vector space. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the superiority of our end-to-end framework in improving the accuracy of 3D face reconstruction. Moreover, with the help of variational inference, our model has excellent generating ability.en_US
dc.description.number7
dc.description.sectionheadersAnimation
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume38
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13830
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages215-224
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13830
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13830
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectComputing methodologies
dc.subjectShape representations
dc.subjectMesh models
dc.titleGenerating 3D Faces using Multi-column Graph Convolutional Networksen_US
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