3D Reconstruction of Human Heads and Faces from Images Captured in Uncontrolled Environments
Fabio Maninchedda · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2017
It's been a ride, that's for sure but I'm grateful that I pulled through.After working a few years on video compression, who would have thought that I would have ended up doing 3D face reconstruction instead.I'm grateful to many people who have worked with me during this journey.First, I would like to thank my thesis advisor Marc Pollefeys for his guidance and for giving me the opportunity to explore various topics freely.I'm also very thankful to Alain Fogel and Edouard Lamboray for the great collaboration in the early days of my doctorate when I was still working on stereoscopic video compression.Christian Häne has been a great collaborator and friend, from which I have profited vastly while working on 3D head and face reconstruction.It has also been a pleasure to work with Martin Oswald, which has always been very helpful with great suggestions to improve various parts of the work that has led to this thesis.I would also like to thank Amaël Delaunoy and Bastien Jacquet for their helpful collaboration and Petri Tanskanen for making the 3D face scanning on a mobile device possible.A big thank you also goes to Christophe Remillet and Clemens Blumer with whom I've collaborated under the Grant 16703.1 PFES-ES of CTI Switzerland which partially funded my doctorate.At this point I would like to thank Markus Gross and Thomas Vetter for being my co-examiners.To my longstanding officemate Andrea Cohen, all my CVG labmates (too many to name but you know who you are) and CVG staff (Susanne Keller, Danielle