Ying He

Jie-Wen Li, Zi-Han Ye, Qingyuan Zhou et al.

The kinematics analysis of foot-ankle complex during gait is essential for advancing biomechanical research and clinical assessment. Collecting accurate surface geometry data from the foot and ankle during dynamic gait conditions is inherently challenging due to swing foot occlusions and viewing limitations. Thus, this paper introduces FootGait3D, a novel multi-view dataset of high-resolution ankle-foot surface point clouds captured during natural gait. Different from existing gait datasets that typically target whole-body or lower-limb motion, FootGait3D focuses specifically on the detailed modeling of the ankle-foot region, offering a finer granularity of motion data. To address this, FootGait3D consists of 8,403 point cloud frames collected from 46 subjects using a custom five-camera depth sensing system. Each frame includes a complete 5-view reconstruction of the foot and ankle (serving as ground truth) along with partial point clouds obtained from only four, three, or two views. This structured variation enables rigorous evaluation of 3D point cloud completion methods under varying occlusion levels and viewpoints. Our dataset is designed for shape completion tasks, facilitating the benchmarking of state-of-the-art single-modal (e.g., PointTr, SnowflakeNet, Anchorformer) and multi-modal (e.g., SVDFormer, PointSea, CSDN) completion networks on the challenge of recovering the full foot geometry from occluded inputs. FootGait3D has significant potential to advance research in biomechanics and multi-segment foot modeling, offering a valuable testbed for clinical gait analysis, prosthetic design, and robotics applications requiring detailed 3D models of the foot during motion. The dataset is now available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/ljw285/FootGait3D.

Jiayi Kong, Xurui Song, Shuo Huai et al.

While 3D head reconstruction is widely used for modeling, existing neural reconstruction approaches rely on high-resolution multi-view images, posing notable privacy issues. Individuals are particularly sensitive to facial features, and facial image leakage can lead to many malicious activities, such as unauthorized tracking and deepfake. In contrast, geometric data is less susceptible to misuse due to its complex processing requirements, and absence of facial texture features. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage 3D facial reconstruction method aimed at avoiding exposure to sensitive facial information while preserving detailed geometric accuracy. Our approach first uses non-sensitive rear-head images for initial geometry and then refines this geometry using processed privacy-removed gradient images. Extensive experiments show that the resulting geometry is comparable to methods using full images, while the process is resistant to DeepFake applications and facial recognition (FR) systems, thereby proving its effectiveness in privacy protection.