Pattern Guided UV Recovery for Realistic Video Garment Texturing

TL;DR

This paper introduces a pattern-guided UV and shading recovery method from real videos, enabling automatic garment texture replacement for virtual fashion showcases, reducing manual effort and improving realism.

Contribution

A novel pattern-based UV and shading recovery approach using blended-weight MLPs and Jacobian loss for seamless, consistent, and realistic garment texturing from videos.

Findings

Robust to various clothing types and lighting conditions

Produces plausible texture replacements with preserved folds and overlaps

Outperforms baseline methods in qualitative and quantitative metrics

Abstract

The fast growth of E-Commerce creates a global market worth USD 821 billion for online fashion shopping. What unique about fashion presentation is that, the same design can usually be offered with different cloths textures. However, only real video capturing or manual per-frame editing can be used for virtual showcase on the same design with different textures, both of which are heavily labor intensive. In this paper, we present a pattern-based approach for UV and shading recovery from a captured real video so that the garment's texture can be replaced automatically. The core of our approach is a per-pixel UV regression module via blended-weight multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) driven by the detected discrete correspondences from the cloth pattern. We propose a novel loss on the Jacobian of the UV mapping to create pleasant seams around the folding areas and the boundary of occluded regions while avoiding UV distortion. We also adopts the temporal constraint to ensure consistency and accuracy in UV prediction across adjacent frames. We show that our approach is robust to a variety type of clothes, in the wild illuminations and with challenging motions. We show plausible texture replacement results in our experiment, in which the folding and overlapping of the garment can be greatly preserved. We also show clear qualitative and quantitative improvement compared to the baselines as well. With the one-click setup, we look forward to our approach contributing to the growth of fashion E-commerce.