Nvidia Lifelike Human Face Rendering Tech Demo Download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/11/2013 02:30 PM [ 32 comment(s) ]

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Download Nvidia Lifelike Human Face Rendering Tech Demo.Meet "Digital Ira". Ira represents a big leap forward in capturing and rendering human facial expression in real time, and gives us a glimpse of the realism we can look forward to in our favorite game characters.

This demonstration highlights the state of the art in performance capture. All Ira''s motions were acted out in a "light stage" at the Institute for Creative Technology at USC. The team there headed by Dr. Paul Debevec is able to photographically capture facial geometry, surface detail, and lighting information of an actor without any of the traditional tricks of face markers or special makeup.

This light stage data is pulled into NVIDIA''s demo engine, and using FaceWorks rendering technology we witness a realism of human facial rendering never before seen in real time. FaceWorks shading gives Ira lifelike skin, eyes, lips and teeth. Adaptive tessellation keeps the curves of his face perfectly smooth.

Play with this interactive demo to see Ira immersed in three different lighting environments. Adjust his skin rendering to see the effect of sub surface light transmission through his skin. And, see the realism of his facial motion as he stares you down with a myriad of lifelike expresssions.

Launched with GeForce GTX 670 and above
Released: 10 May 2013
Features: CUDA DirectX 11
Supported Platform(s) (OS): Windows 7

Face Works uses a face and motion capture technology developed at the University of Southern California’s Institute of Creative Technology (ICT). The Light Stage technology is able to capture data to within a tenth of a millimetre using photographic techniques that capture the geometry of an actor’s face as well as the light transmission through human skin and the reflections that come from the oils too. As well as the still images the Light Stage then uses video capturing to grab around thirty different facial expressions from the actor involved. Once all that information is captured it’s then compressed down to a set of meshes that can be used to recreate and animate a digitised version of that face.

Nvidia have worked with the ICT and managed to get this compressed data down from the 32GB it is in its raw form to around 400MB. At that size it is now possible to do the animation in real time and that is exactly what Jen-Hsun Huang has going on behind him on stage in the video below.

The download is 308 MB in size.

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cowie
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#4594278 Posted on: 05/11/2013 02:34 PM

They made it too creepy.... like the little girl in the ring creepy.

Big boobed elf's are not creepy

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#4594283 Posted on: 05/11/2013 02:46 PM

I am just getting a download button in firefox and ie that I cannot click on on both mirrors
same galaxy note 2

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#4594285 Posted on: 05/11/2013 02:51 PM

I am just getting a download button in firefox and ie that I cannot click on on both mirrors
same galaxy note 2

Whoops! try again, it should work fine now.

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#4594286 Posted on: 05/11/2013 02:52 PM

yep worked, the first time I saw a png pic of a download button

panogr
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#4594287 Posted on: 05/11/2013 02:54 PM

They made it too creepy.... like the little girl in the ring creepy.

Big boobed elf's are not creepy

i couldn't say it better

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#4594292 Posted on: 05/11/2013 03:07 PM

50fps 680 sli

Nuwidol
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#4594332 Posted on: 05/11/2013 04:46 PM

On the 314.22 drivers I'm not getting SLI by default. One Titan is giving me 39fps@1080p or 28fps@1600p

If the 320.00 drivers weren't so buggy I'd try those to see what I'd get with them.

Edit: Forcing AFR2 in control panel gives perfect SLI scaling

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#4594334 Posted on: 05/11/2013 04:50 PM

50fps 680 sli

At 1920x1080?

I got at default (camera and head settings) running GTX 480@stock-reference (314.22WHQL-HQ):
1024x768 - 19-20 fps
1920x1080 - 13-14 fps

NOTE: I ignored what's my CPU because my GTX 480 got always 99% GPU usage.

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#4594346 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:15 PM

i dont think i even wana try that on my card, but then we wont see such things in games for good while

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#4594350 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:22 PM

Downloading now...

Burn my little gtx 460, burn baby burn......haha.
Lets see if this is even running here.

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#4594351 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:23 PM

That skin shader makes a big difference, when you lower quality of it to "0", that face will no longer look life like.

Performance at 1920x1200 on single 680GTX OC:
32 fps with paused facial expressions
23-25 fps with facial expressions

1280x720p:
53-56 with paused facial expressions
38-42 with facial expressions

10 years from now, and we will see faces like that in games

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#4594353 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:26 PM

Any hacks to get this running on AMD ? I remember the Pixie demo had an AMD workaround

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#4594355 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:26 PM

I love GPU tech demos. They're so much fun to play around with.

And it's cool to see how it works with the different underlays/overlays.

Can't wait until we see this tech in games.

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#4594359 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:32 PM

I tried it any way

1080p Vysnc

12-14fps 89-99% gpu load
Uses singe core on a cpu which was pegged @ around 90% every other core was less then 3%

Pretty realisticly no card is powerfull enough to do this or will before for few years

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#4594362 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:49 PM

50fps 680 sli

On the 314.22 drivers I'm not getting SLI by default. One Titan is giving me 39fps@1080p or 28fps@1600p

If the 320.00 drivers weren't so buggy I'd try those to see what I'd get with them.

Edit: Forcing AFR2 in control panel gives perfect SLI scaling

How did you know that SLI was working? I can't get Afterburner to work with this so I have no clue of frame rate and if SLI is working/maxing out cards.

I ticked the option in the Nvidia drivers to show SLI indicator but again saw nothing.

EDIT: Just realised their are 2 .exe's. DOHH. Thats why Afterburner is not working.

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#4594365 Posted on: 05/11/2013 05:57 PM

How are u guys checking frame rate?? mine is running silky smooth and im getting screen tearing with v-sync off on a 60hz monitor

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#4594368 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:01 PM

See above. Use 32bit .exe and Afterburner software.

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#4594369 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:01 PM

How are u guys checking frame rate?? mine is running silky smooth and im getting screen tearing with v-sync off on a 60hz monitor

MSI Afterburner or FRAPS I'd imagine, unless the demo has its own OSD

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#4594372 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:02 PM

How did you know that SLI was working? I can't get Afterburner to work with this so I have no clue of frame rate and if SLI is working/maxing out cards.

I ticked the option in the Nvidia drivers to show SLI indicator but again saw nothing.

EDIT: Just realised their are 2 .exe's. DOHH. Thats why Afterburner is not working.
32bit binary will allow OSD, afr2 works fine

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#4594377 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:05 PM

I still think that for games the level of realism is not important. The more realism the less imagination, imo.
For education, for training, for video-conferencing, for movie industry - yes, can be important.

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#4594381 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:12 PM

Off topic I know but... I was just wondering why Afterburner can't currently do the OSD with 64bit software? Surely that's the first thing you would start working on? Just curious...

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#4594383 Posted on: 05/11/2013 06:14 PM

God thx

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#4594440 Posted on: 05/11/2013 07:28 PM

boogy boogy

Runs my bf3 clocks np
But from 1150 to 1230 only 3-4 fps increase.

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#4594499 Posted on: 05/11/2013 10:09 PM

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#4594511 Posted on: 05/11/2013 11:17 PM

le mungaloid face, he did this expression after i pressed F12 print screen with fraps xD

Gpu OC in spec.

~18-20FPS @ 1080P
~25-28FPS @ 720P

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