Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

Smartphone users will be able to generate a three-dimensional duplicate of themselves by using a new process developed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Alexandru Ichim from EPFL's Computer Graphics and Geometry Laboratory and colleagues say they have condensed an expensive and complex Hollywood studio process into an application for use on smartphone cameras. "We wanted the process to be fast and easy: all you have to do is take a video of yourself and then snap a few more shots to get facial expressions, and our algorithm does the rest," Ichim says. He notes users will be able to display their digital double on a screen and animate it in real time with a video camera that follows their movements. To read further, please visit http://actu.epfl.ch/news/creating-an-avatar-from-a-3d-selfie/.