Digital Humans
The research on digital humans focuses on novel approaches to
acquire and represent human faces, and develop algorithms that
enable stunning visual effects and even medical applications.
Prof. Gross and his team design multiview face capture systems
and develop algorithms that are able to recover the geometry and
appearance of human faces with incredible accuracy and realism.
The research has resulted in the development of
Medusa capture system
that has been used in over 30 Hollywood movies so far and
led to Gross and his collaborators receiving Gross's second
Academy Sci-Tech Oscar award.
Further research is done on performance capture and facial
animation, neural rendering, deep face models, and generative
facial appearance modeling. Finally, the research leverages the
work on human faces and digital humans for various medical
applications to improve people's lives, for example, dental
treatment simulation and outcome visualization, as well as
digital modelling and treatment planning for craniofacial
malformations, such as cleft lip and palate.
More information is availabe in
cgl.ethz.ch/research/digital_humans.