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Video: Disney's 3-D Facial Scruff Technology Reconstructs Beards Down to the Individual Hair
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowFacial hair “plays an important role in individual expression,” Disney researchers write in the abstract for its paper titled Coupled 3D Reconstruction of Sparse Facial Hair and Skin (the full paper in PDF is here). In it, they describe an approach to facial reconstruction that captures facial hair and facial skin together, in a coupled fashion that recognizes individual hairs on the face and digitally traces them as such (this doesn’t strictly apply to men’s beards and mustaches, but also to eyebrows, sideburns, etc.). From that data, the algorithms can also determine where the hair is obscuring facial skin in the imagery so underlying skin surface can be reconstructed accurately.