🧩 3D Human Face Reconstruction

A Laplacian approach for surface reconstruction from sparse point clouds

📅 Research Period: Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
🌐 GitHub: 3D Mesh Reconstruction

This research was supported by a FAPESP undergraduate research fellowship (grant link).

About the Project

The reconstruction of meshes from a reduced set of points constitutes the core of this research.
The objective is to reconstruct a human face from simplified curves, also known as robust features.

This approach applies the Laplace operator to extract and preserve local details while reconstructing the global facial structure.
It enables realistic 3D modeling with low computational cost, opening possibilities for:

  • Image compression
  • Facial recognition systems
  • Virtual avatar generation

Authors

João Pedro Viguini T. T. Correa – Undergraduate Research Fellow (FAPESP), University of São Paulo (USP)

João do Espírito Santo Batista Neto – Assistant Professor, University of São Paulo (USP)