We propose a method for predicting the 3D shape of a deformable surface from
a single view. By contrast with previous approaches, we do not need a
pre-registered template of the surface, and our method is robust to the lack of
texture and partial occlusions. At the core of our approach is a {\it
geometry-aware} deep architecture that tackles the problem as usually done in
analytic solutions: first perform 2D detection of the mesh and then estimate a
3D shape that is geometrically consistent with the image. We train this
architecture in an end-to-end manner using a large dataset of synthetic
renderings of shapes under different levels of deformation, material
properties, textures and lighting conditions. We evaluate our approach on a
test split of this dataset and available real benchmarks, consistently
improving state-of-the-art solutions with a significantly lower computational
time.

提出了一种基于几何感知的深度学习方法，能够在没有预先注册表面模板的情况下，通过单一视角的输入图像，精确预测可变形表面的 3D 形状， 并采用合成数据集和真实基准数据集的实验证明其在 3D 形状预测上超越同类算法，且计算时间明显减少。