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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Schedule
Thursday, March 17, 2022
6:00 PM Europe/Berlin
Domain
PsychologyHost
AFC Lab & CARLA Talk Series
Duration
70 minutes
3D Morphable Models are my favorite class of generative models and are commonly used to model faces. They are typically applied to ill-posed problems such as 3D reconstruction from 2D data. I'll start my presentation with an introduction into 3D Morphable Models and show what they are capable of doing. I'll then focus on our recent finding, the Identity-Expression Ambiguity: We demonstrate that non-orthogonality of the variation in identity and expression can cause identity-expression ambiguity in 3D Morphable Models, and that in practice expression and identity are far from orthogonal and can explain each other surprisingly well. Whilst previously reported ambiguities only arise in an inverse rendering setting, identity-expression ambiguity emerges in the 3D shape generation process itself. The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate the ambiguity and discuss its potential consequences in a computer vision setting as well as for understanding face perception mechanisms in the human brain.
Bernhard Egger
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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