Surprised this is getting any notice at all. I work at a facial recognition firm pioneering this technique 20 years ago. (www.CyberExtruder.com) The TLDR descri

Surprised this is getting any notice at all. I work at a facial recognition firm pioneering this technique 20 years ago. (www.CyberExtruder.com) The TLDR description by andreyk pretty much sums the process, as it originated long ago. It is very similar now, just with a team of very smart people iterating over the pipeline for so long has made it sophisticated to the point the TLDR description could be argued as too light. I even made a 3D avatar API & service, now closed, from the technology 10 years ago. The twitter site is still around, if you want to see the quality of reconstruction possible: https://twitter.com/3DAvatarStore/media https://twitter.com/3DAvatarStore/media