{"id":14689,"date":"2021-04-30T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2021-04-30T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:45:03","slug":"vid2actor-turning-video-of-humans-into-posable-3d-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/vid2actor-turning-video-of-humans-into-posable-3d-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Vid2Actor: Turning video of humans into posable 3D models"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;m on a kick sharing recent work from Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman &amp; team, <a href=\"https:\/\/grail.cs.washington.edu\/projects\/vid2actor\/\">here&#8217;s another banger<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Given an \u201cin-the-wild\u201d video, we train a deep network with the video frames to produce an animatable human representation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vid2Actor: Free-viewpoint Animatable Person Synthesis from Video in the Wild\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zec8Us0v23o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>This can be rendered from any camera view in any body pose, enabling applications such as motion re-targeting and bullet-time rendering without the need for rigged 3D meshes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward (?) to the not-so-distant day when a 3D-extracted Trevor Lawrence hucks a touchdown to Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot. <em>Grand slam!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m on a kick sharing recent work from Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman &amp; team, here&#8217;s another banger: Given an \u201cin-the-wild\u201d video, we train a deep network with the video frames to produce an animatable human representation. This can be rendered from any camera view in any body pose, enabling applications such as motion re-targeting and bullet-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14696,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions\/14696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}