Strike a Pose: Image-based Pose Synthesis

Abstract

In this paper, our objective is to facilitate the creation of novel human poses by synthesizing images. Existing approaches commonly deform one single image, which often results in a distorted image due to texture and illumination artefacts. We present a novel image-based pose synthesis technique that accurately reconstructs texture details by combining information from multiple photographs. Given a user-specified 2D target pose, our solution merges different parts of the input photographs in order to conform to the desired pose, solely using 2D operations. We illustrate how novel poses can be generated from only a few example images, requiring little user intervention.