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[PhotoApp: Photorealistic Appearance Editing of Head Portraits]

PhotoApp: Photorealistic Appearance Editing of Head Portraits

Mallikarjun B R1,  Ayush Tewari1,  Abdallah Dib2,  Tim Weyrich3,  Bernd Bickel4,  Hans-Peter Seidel1,  Hanspeter Pfister5,  Wojciech Matusik6,  Louis Chevallier2,  Mohamed Elgharib1,  Christian Theobalt1

1 Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
2 InterDigital R&I, France
3 University College London
4 Institute for Science and Technology Austria
5 Harvard University
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

Photorealistic editing of portraits is a challenging task as humans are very sensitive to inconsistencies in faces. We present an approach for high-quality intuitive editing of the camera viewpoint and scene illumination in a portrait image. This requires our method to capture and control the full reflectance field of the person in the image. Most editing approaches rely on supervised learning using training data captured with setups such as light and camera stages. Such datasets are expensive to acquire, not readily available and do not capture all the rich variations of in-the-wild portrait images. In addition, most supervised approaches only focus on relighting, and do not allow camera viewpoint editing. Thus, they only capture and control a subset of the reflectance field. Recently, portrait editing has been demonstrated by operating in the generative model space of StyleGAN. While such approaches do not require direct supervision, there is a significant loss of quality when compared to the supervised approaches. In this paper, we present a method which learns from limited supervised training data. The training images only include people in a fixed neutral expression with eyes closed, without much hair or background variations. Each person is captured under 150 one-light-at-a-time conditions and under 8 camera poses. Instead of training directly in the image space, we design a supervised problem which learns transformations in the latent space of StyleGAN. This combines the best of supervised learning and generative adversarial modeling. We show that the StyleGAN prior allows for generalisation to different expressions, hairstyles and backgrounds. This produces high-quality photorealistic results for in-the-wild images and significantly outperforms existing methods. Our approach can edit the illumination and pose simultaneously, and runs at interactive rates.

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PhotoApp: Photorealistic Appearance Editing of Head Portraits.
Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Abdallah Dib, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Louis Chevallier, Mohamed Elgharib, Christian Theobalt.
Transactions on Computer Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 40(4), 44:1–44:16, July 2021.Mallikarjun B R, Ayush Tewari, Abdallah Dib, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hans-Peter Seidel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Louis Chevallier, Mohamed Elgharib, and Christian Theobalt. PhotoApp: Photorealistic appearance editing of head portraits. In Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), volume 40, pages 44:1–44:16, July 2021.B R, M., Tewari, A., Dib, A., Weyrich, T., Bickel, B., Seidel, H.-P., Pfister, H., Matusik, W., Chevallier, L., Elgharib, M., and Theobalt, C. 2021. PhotoApp: Photorealistic appearance editing of head portraits. In Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol. 40, 44:1–44:16.M. B R, A. Tewari, A. Dib, T. Weyrich, B. Bickel, H.-P. Seidel, H. Pfister, W. Matusik, L. Chevallier, M. Elgharib, and C. Theobalt, “PhotoApp: Photorealistic appearance editing of head portraits,” in Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), vol. 40, no. 4, Jul. 2021, pp. 44:1–44:16. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3450626.3459765
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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant 4DReply (770784).


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