Spacetime Face Data & Tools

Data

face205_ply.zip(212M)
A sequence of 384 face meshes, each with about 23K vertices. The mesh is indexed from 306 to 1455, and the index increases by 3. The meshes are in ply format. Software and code for reading ply files can be found on the page for the Stanford scanning repository.

Tools

The ply files can be viewed using scanalyze. However, to visualize a sequence of ply files sharing the same triangulation more efficiently, we built our own program, see3D(binary built for Windows XP). Click here for a brief documentation.

Some colleagues who have no experiece with ply files had some difficulties reading/writing the files. Here is the ply IO code I used. It was cropped from my research code and not compilable by itself, but I hope it would be helpful.

Notes

These meshes are generated using the method described in the paper: "Spacetime Faces: High-resolution capture for modeling and animation" by Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, and Steve Seitz, presented in ACM SIGGRAPH 2004. We will try to keep updating this website and provide more and better data, as our research progresses.

Please be sure to acknowledge the University of Washington Graphics and Imaging Laboratory when using this data. You are welcome to use the data for research purposes. It is not to be used for commercial purposes, nor should it appear in a product for sale without our permission.

Comments to lizhang [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu.