3D Morphable Face Models -- Past, Present and Future
This is an incremental survey paper for researchers in computer vision and graphics, summarizing existing work without introducing novel methods.
The paper surveys the development, current state, and future directions of 3D Morphable Face Models over 20 years, reviewing challenges in capture, modeling, image formation, and analysis without presenting new experimental results.
In this paper, we provide a detailed survey of 3D Morphable Face Models over the 20 years since they were first proposed. The challenges in building and applying these models, namely capture, modeling, image formation, and image analysis, are still active research topics, and we review the state-of-the-art in each of these areas. We also look ahead, identifying unsolved challenges, proposing directions for future research and highlighting the broad range of current and future applications.