3D Face-Aware Electronics with Low-Resolution Imaging

Abstract

What if your electronics with cheap cameras can reveal 3D faces of captured people? In daily life, we use a lot of consumer electronics employing cameras such as a mobile phone, a tablet PC, a CCTV, a car black box, and so on. If such devices provide 3D facial shapes of 2-dimensionally framed people, it would benefit new applications and services in higher dimensional imaging, security, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), AR (Augmented Reality), and mobile applications like phone games. This paper introduces a novel method to realize the functionality in computational electronics with low-resolution imaging.