MovieReshape: tracking and reshaping of humans in videos

We present a system for quick and easy manipulation of the body shape and proportions of a human actor in arbitrary video footage. The approach is based on a morphable model of 3D human shape and pose that was learned from laser scans of real people. The algorithm commences by spatio-temporally fitting the pose and shape of this model to the actor in either single-view or multi-view video footage. Once the model has been fitted, semantically meaningful attributes of body shape, such as height, weight or waist girth, can be interactively modified by the user. The changed proportions of the virtual human model are then applied to the actor in all video frames by performing an image-based warping. By this means, we can now conveniently perform spatio-temporal reshaping of human actors in video footage which we show on a variety of video sequences.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TOG
• Authors: Arjun Jain, Thorsten Thormählen, Hans-Peter Seidel, Christian Theobalt
• Keywords: Body Shape, Human Actors, TOG 2010, Video Footage