Facebook Research releases tech to create 3D models of people from photographs

shirappu writes: The technology, called PIFuHD, takes photographs of people and reconstructs them in 3D. The tech works on deep neural networks with multi-level architecture that allows for high resolution and accuracy in 3D models even at low levels of memory. More is available in the detail-heavy research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.004...

Applications for this kind of automated image digitization include medical imaging and virtual reality, and the researchers have released a version of the model for users to try out themselves on Google Colab (link: https://github.com/facebookres...)