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Creating plausible virtual actors from images of real actors remains one of the key challenges in computer vision and computer graphics. Marker-less human motion estimation and shape modeling from images in the wild bring this challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Erickson R. Nascimento

The ability to create realistic, animatable and relightable head avatars from casual video sequences would open up wide ranging applications in communication and entertainment. Current methods either build on explicit 3D morphable meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yufeng Zheng , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

The appearance of a human in clothing is driven not only by the pose but also by its temporal context, i.e., motion. However, such context has been largely neglected by existing monocular human modeling methods whose neural networks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hansol Lee , Junuk Cha , Yunhoe Ku , Jae Shin Yoon , Seungryul Baek

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

Capturing the dynamically deforming 3D shape of clothed human is essential for numerous applications, including VR/AR, autonomous driving, and human-computer interaction. Existing methods either require a highly specialized capturing setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Chen Guo , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

We present a novel method to learn temporally consistent 3D reconstruction of clothed people from a monocular video. Recent methods for 3D human reconstruction from monocular video using volumetric, implicit or parametric human shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Adrian Hilton

We present HAHA - a novel approach for animatable human avatar generation from monocular input videos. The proposed method relies on learning the trade-off between the use of Gaussian splatting and a textured mesh for efficient and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

We propose 360{\deg} Volumetric Portrait (3VP) Avatar, a novel method for reconstructing 360{\deg} photo-realistic portrait avatars of human subjects solely based on monocular video inputs. State-of-the-art monocular avatar reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jalees Nehvi , Berna Kabadayi , Julien Valentin , Justus Thies

In this paper, we present a novel method that facilitates the creation of vivid 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular video inputs (GVA). Our innovation lies in addressing the intricate challenges of delivering high-fidelity human body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xinqi Liu , Chenming Wu , Jialun Liu , Xing Liu , Jinbo Wu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Video-based human motion transfer creates video animations of humans following a source motion. Current methods show remarkable results for tightly-clad subjects. However, the lack of temporally consistent handling of plausible clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Moritz Kappel , Vladislav Golyanik , Mohamed Elgharib , Jann-Ole Henningson , Hans-Peter Seidel , Susana Castillo , Christian Theobalt , Marcus Magnor

In this paper, we take a significant step towards real-world applicability of monocular neural avatar reconstruction by contributing InstantAvatar, a system that can reconstruct human avatars from a monocular video within seconds, and these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

We present a method to reconstruct time-consistent human body models from monocular videos, focusing on extremely loose clothing or handheld object interactions. Prior work in human reconstruction is either limited to tight clothing with no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jeff Tan , Donglai Xiang , Shubham Tulsiani , Deva Ramanan , Gengshan Yang

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

To address the ill-posed problem caused by partial observations in monocular human volumetric capture, we present AvatarCap, a novel framework that introduces animatable avatars into the capture pipeline for high-fidelity reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhe Li , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Chaonan Ji , Yebin Liu

Reconstructing dynamic humans interacting with real-world environments from monocular videos is an important and challenging task. Despite considerable progress in 4D neural rendering, existing approaches either model dynamic scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann