3DPortraitGAN: Learning One-Quarter Headshot 3D GANs from a Single-View Portrait Dataset with Diverse Body Poses

TL;DR

This paper introduces 3DPortraitGAN, a novel 3D-aware generator trained on a new dataset, capable of producing consistent one-quarter headshot 3D portraits from single-view images across diverse poses and angles.

Contribution

The paper presents the first 3D-aware one-quarter headshot portrait generator trained on a new dataset with body pose self-learning, enabling view-consistent 3D portraits from single-view data.

Findings

Accurately predicts portrait body poses.

Generates view-consistent, realistic 3D portraits.

Learns a canonical 3D avatar distribution from single-view data.

Abstract

3D-aware face generators are typically trained on 2D real-life face image datasets that primarily consist of near-frontal face data, and as such, they are unable to construct one-quarter headshot 3D portraits with complete head, neck, and shoulder geometry. Two reasons account for this issue: First, existing facial recognition methods struggle with extracting facial data captured from large camera angles or back views. Second, it is challenging to learn a distribution of 3D portraits covering the one-quarter headshot region from single-view data due to significant geometric deformation caused by diverse body poses. To this end, we first create the dataset 360{\deg}-Portrait-HQ (360{\deg}PHQ for short) which consists of high-quality single-view real portraits annotated with a variety of camera parameters (the yaw angles span the entire 360{\deg} range) and body poses. We then propose 3DPortraitGAN, the first 3D-aware one-quarter headshot portrait generator that learns a canonical 3D avatar distribution from the 360{\deg}PHQ dataset with body pose self-learning. Our model can generate view-consistent portrait images from all camera angles with a canonical one-quarter headshot 3D representation. Our experiments show that the proposed framework can accurately predict portrait body poses and generate view-consistent, realistic portrait images with complete geometry from all camera angles.