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As the digital and physical worlds become more intertwined, there has been a lot of interest in digital avatars that closely resemble their real-world counterparts. Current digitization methods used in 3D production pipelines require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Wang , Ivan Molodetskikh , Ondrej Texler , Dimitar Dinev

Bringing empathy to a computerized system could significantly improve the quality of human-computer communications, as soon as machines would be able to understand customer intentions and better serve their needs. According to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kamil Akhmetov

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Motion retargeting is a promising approach for generating natural and compelling animations for nonhuman characters. However, it is challenging to translate human movements into semantically equivalent motions for target characters with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Tianyu Li , Jungdam Won , Alexander Clegg , Jeonghwan Kim , Akshara Rai , Sehoon Ha

Unsupervised generation of 3D-aware clothed humans with various appearances and controllable geometries is important for creating virtual human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Multi-domain image-to-image translation has gained increasing attention recently. Previous methods take an image and some target attributes as inputs and generate an output image with the desired attributes. However, such methods have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Po-Wei Wu , Yu-Jing Lin , Che-Han Chang , Edward Y. Chang , Shih-Wei Liao

Traditional methods for image-based 3D face reconstruction and facial motion retargeting fit a 3D morphable model (3DMM) to the face, which has limited modeling capacity and fail to generalize well to in-the-wild data. Use of deformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Bindita Chaudhuri , Noranart Vesdapunt , Linda Shapiro , Baoyuan Wang

Human pose transfer has received great attention due to its wide applications, yet is still a challenging task that is not well solved. Recent works have achieved great success to transfer the person image from the source to the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Zhengyao Lv , Xiaoming Li , Xin Li , Fu Li , Tianwei Lin , Dongliang He , Wangmeng Zuo

With the rapid advancement of 3D representation techniques and generative models, substantial progress has been made in reconstructing full-body 3D avatars from a single image. However, this task remains fundamentally ill-posedness due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Gaofeng Liu , Hengsen Li , Ruoyu Gao , Xuetong Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Tao Fang

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

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

The term attribute transfer refers to the tasks of altering images in such a way, that the semantic interpretation of a given input image is shifted towards an intended direction, which is quantified by semantic attributes. Prominent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ricard Durall , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

The face expression is the first thing we pay attention to when we want to understand a person's state of mind. Thus, the ability to recognize facial expressions in an automatic way is a very interesting research field. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Enrico Randellini , Leonardo Rigutini , Claudio Sacca'

We present an approach to generate high fidelity 3D face avatar with a high-resolution UV texture map from a single image. To estimate the face geometry, we use a deep neural network to directly predict vertex coordinates of the 3D face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ruizhe Wang , Chih-Fan Chen , Hao Peng , Xudong Liu , Oliver Liu , Xin Li

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

To improve the experiences of face-to-face conversation with avatar, this paper presents a novel conversation system. It is composed of two sequence-to-sequence models respectively for listening and speaking and a Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zezhou Chen , Zhaoxiang Liu , Huan Hu , Jinqiang Bai , Shiguo Lian , Fuyuan Shi , Kai Wang

Facial expression editing methods can be mainly categorized into two types based on their architectures: 2D-based and 3D-based methods. The former lacks 3D face modeling capabilities, making it difficult to edit 3D factors effectively. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yikang He , Jichao Zhang , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yao Zhao