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We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

Learning-based image harmonization techniques are usually trained to undo synthetic random global transformations applied to a masked foreground in a single ground truth photo. This simulated data does not model many of the important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ke Wang , Michaël Gharbi , He Zhang , Zhihao Xia , Eli Shechtman

We present a unified and generalizable framework for synthesizing view-consistent and temporally coherent avatars from a single image, addressing the challenging task of single-image avatar generation. Existing diffusion-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yixing Lu , Junting Dong , Youngjoong Kwon , Qin Zhao , Bo Dai , Fernando De la Torre

We present a system for learning full-body neural avatars, i.e. deep networks that produce full-body renderings of a person for varying body pose and camera position. Our system takes the middle path between the classical graphics pipeline…

Realistic synthetic image data rendered from 3D models can be used to augment image sets and train image classification semantic segmentation models. In this work, we explore how high quality physically-based rendering and domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Jason W. Anderson , Marcin Ziolkowski , Ken Kennedy , Amy W. Apon

We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

We propose a pipeline to generate Neural Radiance Fields~(NeRF) of an object or a scene of a specific class, conditioned on a single input image. This is a challenging task, as training NeRF requires multiple views of the same scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shengqu Cai , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Tongtong Zhao , Yuxiao Yan , Jinjia Peng , Huibing Wang , Xianping Fu

Efficient rendering of photo-realistic virtual worlds is a long standing effort of computer graphics. Modern graphics techniques have succeeded in synthesizing photo-realistic images from hand-crafted scene representations. However, the…

Video portraits relighting is critical in user-facing human photography, especially for immersive VR/AR experience. Recent advances still fail to recover consistent relit result under dynamic illuminations from monocular RGB stream,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Longwen Zhang , Qixuan Zhang , Minye Wu , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Prafull Sharma , Ayush Tewari , Yilun Du , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann

The remarkable progress in neural-network-driven visual data generation, especially with neural rendering techniques like Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, offers a powerful alternative to GANs and diffusion models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Chengdong Dong , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula , Zhenyu Zhou , Ajay Kumar

We present HairWeaver, a diffusion-based pipeline that animates a single human image with realistic and expressive hair dynamics. While existing methods successfully control body pose, they lack specific control over hair, and as a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Di Chang , Ji Hou , Aljaz Bozic , Assaf Neuberger , Felix Juefei-Xu , Olivier Maury , Gene Wei-Chin Lin , Tuur Stuyck , Doug Roble , Mohammad Soleymani , Stephane Grabli

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

Neural networks have proven their capabilities by outperforming many other approaches on regression or classification tasks on various kinds of data. Other astonishing results have been achieved using neural nets as data generators,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Andrej Junginger , Markus Hanselmann , Thilo Strauss , Sebastian Boblest , Jens Buchner , Holger Ulmer

Recently, cross domain transfer has been applied for unsupervised image restoration tasks. However, directly applying existing frameworks would lead to domain-shift problems in translated images due to lack of effective supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang

This paper presents a novel approach for text/speech-driven animation of a photo-realistic head model based on blend-shape geometry, dynamic textures, and neural rendering. Training a VAE for geometry and texture yields a parametric model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wolfgang Paier , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Unpaired image translation algorithms can be used for sim2real tasks, but many fail to generate temporally consistent results. We present a new approach that combines differentiable rendering with image translation to achieve temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Ryan Burgert , Jinghuan Shang , Xiang Li , Michael Ryoo

We present a novel approach for neural network-based hair segmentation from a single camera input specifically designed for real-time, mobile application. Our relatively small neural network produces a high-quality hair segmentation mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Andrei Tkachenka , Gregory Karpiak , Andrey Vakunov , Yury Kartynnik , Artsiom Ablavatski , Valentin Bazarevsky , Siargey Pisarchyk

Creating realistic virtual assets is a time-consuming process: it usually involves an artist designing the object, then spending a lot of effort on tweaking its appearance. Intricate details and certain effects, such as subsurface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aljaž Božič , Denis Gladkov , Luke Doukakis , Christoph Lassner