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Face Anything: 4D Face Reconstruction from Any Image Sequence

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Accurate reconstruction and tracking of dynamic human faces from image sequences is challenging because non-rigid deformations, expression changes, and viewpoint variations occur simultaneously, creating significant ambiguity in geometry and correspondence estimation. We present a unified method for high-fidelity 4D facial reconstruction based on canonical facial point prediction, a representation that assigns each pixel a normalized facial coordinate in a shared canonical space. This formulation transforms dense tracking and dynamic reconstruction into a canonical reconstruction problem, enabling temporally consistent geometry and reliable correspondences within a single feed-forward model. By jointly predicting depth and canonical coordinates, our method enables accurate depth estimation, temporally stable reconstruction, dense 3D geometry, and robust facial point tracking within a single architecture. We implement this formulation using a transformer-based model that jointly predicts depth and canonical facial coordinates, trained using multi-view geometry data that non-rigidly warps into the canonical space. Extensive experiments on image and video benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across reconstruction and tracking tasks, achieving approximately 3$\times$ lower correspondence error and faster inference than prior dynamic reconstruction methods, while improving depth accuracy by 16%. These results highlight canonical facial point prediction as an effective foundation for unified feed-forward 4D facial reconstruction.

Umut Kocasari, Simon Giebenhain, Richard Shaw, Matthias Nie{\ss}ner• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Monocular Depth EstimationNeRSemble Image
RMSE0.077
8
Monocular Depth EstimationNeRSemble Video
RMSE0.075
8
Monocular Depth EstimationAva-256 Image
RMSE0.067
8
Monocular Depth EstimationAva-256 Video
RMSE0.065
8
2D correspondence evaluationNeRSemble Margin=2 (test)
EPE (px)1.719
4
2D correspondence evaluationNeRSemble Margin=8 (test)
EPE (2D)2.314
4
Dense 2D Correspondence EvaluationVFHQ Margin = 5
CCE Mean0.398
3
Dense 2D Correspondence EvaluationVFHQ Margin = 20
Mean CCE0.774
3
3D correspondenceNeRSemble Margin 2
P0 (t0)0.004
2
3D correspondenceNeRSemble Margin 8
P0 Correspondence Error (t0)0.004
2
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