  3D face reconstruction from Internet photos has recently produced exciting
results. A person's face, e.g., Tom Hanks, can be modeled and animated in 3D
from a completely uncalibrated photo collection. Most methods, however, focus
solely on face area and mask out the rest of the head. This paper proposes that
head modeling from the Internet is a problem we can solve. We target
reconstruction of the rough shape of the head. Our method is to gradually
"grow" the head mesh starting from the frontal face and extending to the rest
of views using photometric stereo constraints. We call our method
boundary-value growing algorithm. Results on photos of celebrities downloaded
from the Internet are presented.
