Single View 3D Face Reconstruction

3D face reconstruction from a single 2D image is a fundamental computer vision problem of extraordinary difficulty that dates back to the 1980s. Briefly, it is the task of recovering the three-dimensional geometry of a human face from a single RGB image. While the problem of automatically estimating the 3D structure of a generic scene from RGB images can be regarded as a general task, the particular morphology and non-rigid nature of human faces make it a challenging problem for which dedicated approaches are still currently studied. This chapter aims at providing an overview of the problem, its evolutions, the current state of the art, and future trends.