Neural Puppet: Generative Layered Cartoon Characters Vladimir Kim Omid Poursaeed Eli Shechtman Serge Belongie Jun Saito
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Neural Puppet: Generative Layered Cartoon Characters
Vladimir KimOmid Poursaeed Eli Shechtman Serge BelongieJun Saito
MotivationGenerating motion in image / video is difficult
Controllable Video Generation, Hao et al., CVPR 2018MoCoGAN, Tulyakov et al., CVPR 2018
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Main IdeaUsing an underlying mesh representation for deformation / interpolation
Image
Mesh
DeformationDifferentiable
Rendering
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Main IdeaAdvantages:
● Well-defined regularization energies on meshes
● Working in the lower dimensional space of vertex positions
● Alleviating blurry outputs
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Template Mesh
Architecture
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Architecture
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Results
Rendered (Ours)
Generated (Ours)
Input
PWC-Net (Baseline)
DAE (Baseline)
Train Test Train Test
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Results
Rendered (Ours)
Generated (Ours)
Input
PWC-Net (Baseline)
DAE (Baseline)
Train Test Train Test
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Results
Average L2 distance to ground truth
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Interpolation between posesLinearly interpolating between encoded latent vectors
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User-constrained DeformationThe user specifies a desired location for a point on the character
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Applications: Face manipulation
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