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FFHQ-UV: Normalized Facial UV-Texture Dataset for 3D Face Reconstruction

arXiv 2211.13874 ↗First posted 25 Nov 2022cs.CVcited by 39

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present a large-scale facial UV-texture dataset that contains over 50,000 high-quality texture UV-maps with even illuminations, neutral expressions, and cleaned facial regions, which are desired characteristics for rendering realistic 3D face models under different lighting conditions. The dataset is derived from a large-scale face image dataset namely FFHQ, with the help of our fully automatic and robust UV-texture production pipeline. Our pipeline utilizes the recent advances in StyleGAN-based facial image editing approaches to generate multi-view normalized face images from single-image inputs. An elaborated UV-texture extraction, correction, and completion procedure is then applied to produce high-quality UV-maps from the normalized face images. Compared with existing UV-texture datasets, our dataset has more diverse and higher-quality texture maps. We further train a GAN-based texture decoder as the nonlinear texture basis for parametric fitting based 3D face reconstruction. Experiments show that our method improves the reconstruction accuracy over state-of-the-art approaches, and more importantly, produces high-quality texture maps that are ready for realistic renderings. The dataset, code, and pre-trained texture decoder are publicly available at https://github.com/csbhr/FFHQ-UV.

Key facts. Cited by 39 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 32 of its 49 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Nov 2022.

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  5. 2023MoSAR: Monocular Semi-Supervised Model for Avatar Reconstruction using Differentiable Shadingcited by 18
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  5. 2024NOVA-3D: Non-overlapped Views for 3D Anime Character Reconstructioncited by 2
  6. 2024OrientDream: Streamlining Text-to-3D Generation with Explicit Orientation Controlcited by 2
  7. 2024High-Fidelity Facial Albedo Estimation via Texture Quantizationcited by 2
  8. 2025High-Quality Facial Albedo Generation for 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image using a Coarse-to-Fine Approachcited by 2
  9. 2024Make VLM Recognize Visual Hallucination on Cartoon Character Image with Pose Informationcited by 1
  10. 2024SemUV: Deep Learning based semantic manipulation over UV texture map of virtual human headscited by 1
  11. 2024Learning to Decouple the Lights for 3D Face Texture Modelingcited by 1
  12. 2025VisionTrap: Unanswerable Questions On Visual Datacited by 1
  13. 2025StyleMM: Stylized 3D Morphable Face Model via Text-Driven Aligned Image Translationcited by 1
  14. 2025AvatarTex: High-Fidelity Facial Texture Reconstruction from Single-Image Stylized Avatarscited by 1
  15. 2026GramSR: Visual Feature Conditioning for Diffusion-Based Super-Resolutioncited by 1
  16. 2026FiCA: Feed-forward instant Gaussian Codec Avatars from a Single Portrait Imagecited by 1
  17. 2026Monocular Avatar Reconstruction via Cascaded Diffusion Priors and UV-Space Differentiable Shadingcited by 1
  18. 2024Text-Driven Diverse Facial Texture Generation via Progressive Latent-Space Refinementcited by 0
  19. 2025High-Fidelity Human Avatars from Laptop Webcams using Edge Computecited by 0
  20. 2025MegaSR: Mining Customized Semantics and Expressive Guidance for Real-World Image Super-Resolutioncited by 0
  21. 2025Geometry-Aware Video Inpainting for Joint Headset Occlusion Removal and Face Reconstruction in Social XRcited by 0
  22. 2025Using Gaussian Splats to Create High-Fidelity Facial Geometry and Texturecited by 0
  23. 2025Multi-scale Attention-Guided Intrinsic Decomposition and Rendering Pass Prediction for Facial Imagescited by 0
  24. 2026Dual Diffusion Models for Multi-modal Guided 3D Avatar Generationcited by 0
  25. 2026Generative Texture Diversification of 3D Pedestrians for Robust Autonomous Driving Perceptioncited by 0
  26. 2026OMGTex: One-stage Multi-style Facial Texture Reconstruction without Geometry Guidancecited by 0
  27. 2026Enhancing Facial Expression Recognition in Head-Mounted Displays with Synthetic Datacited by 0