Rotationally-Consistent Novel View Synthesis for Humans

Human novel view synthesis aims to synthesize target views of a human subject given input images taken from one or more reference viewpoints. Despite significant advances in model-free novel view synthesis, existing methods present two major limitations when applied to complex shapes like humans. First, these methods mainly focus on simple and symmetric objects, e.g., cars and chairs, limiting their performances to fine-grained and asymmetric shapes. Second, existing methods cannot guarantee visual consistency across different adjacent views of the same object. To solve these problems, we present in this paper a learning framework for the novel view synthesis of human subjects, which explicitly enforces consistency across different generated views of the subject. Specifically, we introduce a novel multi-view supervision and an explicit rotational loss during the learning process, enabling the model to preserve detailed body parts and to achieve consistency between adjacent synthesized views. To show the superior performance of our approach, we present qualitative and quantitative results on the Multi-View Human Action (MVHA) dataset we collected (consisting of 3D human models animated with different Mocap sequences and captured from 54 different viewpoints), the Pose-Varying Human Model (PVHM) dataset, and ShapeNet. The qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines in both per-view synthesis quality, and in preserving rotational consistency and complex shapes (e.g. fine-grained details, challenging poses) across multiple adjacent views in a variety of scenarios, for both humans and rigid objects.