BCNet: Learning Body and Cloth Shape from A Single Image

In this paper, we consider the problem to automatically reconstruct both garment and body shapes from a single near front view RGB image. To this end, we propose a layered garment representation on top of SMPL and novelly make the skinning weight of garment to be independent with the body mesh, which significantly improves the expression ability of our garment model. Compared with existing methods, our method can support more garment categories like skirts and recover more accurate garment geometry. To train our model, we construct two large scale datasets with ground truth body and garment geometries as well as paired color images. Compared with single mesh or non-parametric representation, our method can achieve more flexible control with separate meshes, makes applications like re-pose, garment transfer, and garment texture mapping possible.