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Software recreates a 3D model of your face from a smartphone video

By Donna Lu

8 April 2020

3D face

It is easy to make a 3D face with a smartphone

Simon Lucey/Carnegie Mellon University

Three-dimensional recreations of people鈥檚 faces used to require expensive, dedicated scanners, but now you can do it with a smartphone.

Simon Lucey and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania have developed a program that generates an accurate 3D model of a person鈥檚 face and neck.

All the software requires is a 15 to 20-second video clip of a person鈥檚 face taken from various angles using a smartphone on a 鈥渟low motion鈥 setting, which captures footage at a rate of 120 frames…

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