Introduction
Basic Concepts, general idea, definitions
3D Morphable Model Construction
Classic PCA-based 3DMM
Alternative Variants
Point-to-Point Dense Registration of 3D Faces
Problem Statement
Recent state-of-the-art solutions
3DMM Fitting and Manipulation
3DMM for reconstructing a 3D model of the face from single image
How to manipulate a Morphable Model
Deep Learning for 3D Data
Recent state-of-the-art Approaches for 3D Face Reconstruction
CNN for 3DMM parameter regression
Generative models for 3D face synthesis
3DMM for data augmentation
Recent Trends, Challenges and Future Perspectives
Closing Remarks