render the SCALE output

[omarmohamed101]

Hi,
i have a sequence of .ply files of dense point sets (output of the SCALE paper) how can i render them with smplpix to come up with real images ?
they mentioned in the paper that this is possible so any help?

[omarmohamed101]

i mean the output of this work https://github.com/qianlim/SCALE

[qianlim]

Hi, in SCALE what we did is we render the image pairs of the training and test set of SCALE respectively.
Each image pair consists of
(1) projected SCALE point cloud and depth image (as it's just a projection of the points, the projected image have gaps between the points)
(2) a rendering of the ground truth GT mesh (a realistic image without gaps)
see Fig. S3 of the SCALE SupMat for an illustration and section S1.6 there for details.
Then we train SMPLpix with this training set of paired images, and use the trained model to generate images for the test set examples (i.e. what you see in the SCALE paper).
Hope that is helpful for your data preparation.

[sergeyprokudin]

closing, for now. Feel free to re-open if the issue is not fully addressed by Qianli's comment.

~Sergey