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Capturing and faithfully rendering photo-realistic humans from novel views is a fundamental problem for AR/VR applications. While prior work has shown impressive performance capture results in laboratory settings, it is non-trivial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Phong Nguyen-Ha , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Christoph Lassner , Janne Heikkila , Tony Tung

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

Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianan Li , Xiao Chen , Tao Huang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Creating realistic animations of human faces with computer graphic models is still a challenging task. It is often solved either with tedious manual work or motion capture based techniques that require specialised and costly hardware.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wolfgang Paier , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

The recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to generate photo-realistic images by using neural networks and even to extrapolate video frames from an input video clip. In this paper, for the sake of both furthering this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Lijie Fan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Junzhou Huang , Boqing Gong

We present a new approach for synthesizing novel views of people in new poses. Our novel differentiable renderer enables the synthesis of highly realistic images from any viewpoint. Rather than operating over mesh-based structures, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Guillaume Rochette , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

Constructing and animating humans is an important component for building virtual worlds in a wide variety of applications such as virtual reality or robotics testing in simulation. As there are exponentially many variations of humans with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ze Yang , Shenlong Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Zeng Huang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Xinchen Yan , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Inferring 3D human pose from 2D images is a challenging and long-standing problem in the field of computer vision with many applications including motion capture, virtual reality, surveillance or gait analysis for sports and medicine. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Luca Schmidtke , Benjamin Hou , Athanasios Vlontzos , Bernhard Kainz

We study the problem of directly deriving an initial human reenactment from a monocular video of a non-human character. Our goal is not to reconstruct the source character itself but to reinterpret its motion as a plausible and editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Liuhan Chen , Lei Zhong , Jiewei Wang , Qin Shuai , Li Yuan , Leidong Fan , Qing Li , Kanglin Liu

Human video generation remains challenging due to the difficulty of jointly modeling human appearance, motion, and camera viewpoint under limited multi-view data. Existing methods often address these factors separately, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhengwentai Sun , Keru Zheng , Chenghong Li , Hongjie Liao , Xihe Yang , Heyuan Li , Yihao Zhi , Shuliang Ning , Shuguang Cui , Xiaoguang Han

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

We propose a new method for realistic human motion transfer using a generative adversarial network (GAN), which generates a motion video of a target character imitating actions of a source character, while maintaining high authenticity of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yang-Tian Sun , Qian-Cheng Fu , Yue-Ren Jiang , Zitao Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao

In this paper, we present a diffusion model-based framework for animating people from a single image for a given target 3D motion sequence. Our approach has two core components: a) learning priors about invisible parts of the human body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Boyi Li , Junming Chen , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Yossi Gandelsman , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

In recent years, the role of image generative models in facial reenactment has been steadily increasing. Such models are usually subject-agnostic and trained on domain-wide datasets. The appearance of the reenacted individual is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ariel Elazary , Yotam Nitzan , Daniel Cohen-Or

In this paper, we introduce a new problem of manipulating a given video by inserting other videos into it. Our main task is, given an object video and a scene video, to insert the object video at a user-specified location in the scene video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Donghoon Lee , Tomas Pfister , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Creating high-quality controllable 3D human models from multi-view RGB videos poses a significant challenge. Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable quality in reconstructing and free-viewpoint rendering of static as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Paul Knoll , Wieland Morgenstern , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

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

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner