We present Implicit Two Hands (Im2Hands), the first neural implicit representation of two interacting hands. Unlike existing methods on two-hand reconstruction that rely on a parametric hand model and/or low-resolution meshes, Im2Hands can produce fine-grained geometry of two hands with high hand-to-hand and hand-to-image coherency. To handle the shape complexity and interaction context between two hands, Im2Hands models the occupancy volume of two hands - conditioned on an RGB image and coarse 3D keypoints - by two novel attention-based modules responsible for initial occupancy estimation and context-aware occupancy refinement, respectively. Im2Hands first learns per-hand neural articulated occupancy in the canonical space designed for each hand using query-image attention. It then refines the initial two-hand occupancy in the posed space to enhance the coherency between the two hand shapes using query-anchor attention. In addition, we introduce an optional keypoint refinement module to enable robust two-hand shape estimation from predicted hand keypoints in a single-image reconstruction scenario. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of Im2Hands on two-hand reconstruction in comparison to related methods, where ours achieves state-of-the-art results.
Green boxes show penetrations, brown boxes show non-smooth shapes, and purple boxes show shapes with bad image alignment. Our method produces two-hand shapes with better hand-to-image and hand-to-hand coherency, less penetrations, and a higher resolution.
@inproceedings{lee2023im2hands, title={Im2Hands: Learning Attentive Implicit Representation of Interacting Two-Hand Shapes}, author={Lee, Jihyun and Sung, Minhyuk and Choi, Honggyu and Kim, Tae-Kyun}, booktitle={CVPR}, year={2023} }
This work is in part sponsored by NST grant (CRC 21011, MSIT) and KOCCA grant (R2022020028, MCST). Minhyuk Sung acknowledges the support of the NRF grant (RS-2023-00209723) and IITP grant (2022-0-00594) funded by the Korean government (MSIT), and grants from Adobe, ETRI, KT, and Samsung Electronics.