Face Anything: 4D Face Reconstruction from Any Image Sequence
About
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.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monocular Depth Estimation | NeRSemble Image | RMSE0.077 | 8 | |
| Monocular Depth Estimation | NeRSemble Video | RMSE0.075 | 8 | |
| Monocular Depth Estimation | Ava-256 Image | RMSE0.067 | 8 | |
| Monocular Depth Estimation | Ava-256 Video | RMSE0.065 | 8 | |
| 2D correspondence evaluation | NeRSemble Margin=2 (test) | EPE (px)1.719 | 4 | |
| 2D correspondence evaluation | NeRSemble Margin=8 (test) | EPE (2D)2.314 | 4 | |
| Dense 2D Correspondence Evaluation | VFHQ Margin = 5 | CCE Mean0.398 | 3 | |
| Dense 2D Correspondence Evaluation | VFHQ Margin = 20 | Mean CCE0.774 | 3 | |
| 3D correspondence | NeRSemble Margin 2 | P0 (t0)0.004 | 2 | |
| 3D correspondence | NeRSemble Margin 8 | P0 Correspondence Error (t0)0.004 | 2 |