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Reconstructing photo-realistic and topology-aware animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging in computer vision and graphics. Recently, methods using 3D Gaussians to represent the human body have emerged, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Chen Yang , Hao Wang , Xingyue Zhao , Wei Shen

In this work, we present DreamDance, a novel method for animating human images using only skeleton pose sequences as conditional inputs. Existing approaches struggle with generating coherent, high-quality content in an efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yatian Pang , Bin Zhu , Bin Lin , Mingzhe Zheng , Francis E. H. Tay , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang , Li Yuan

3D animation of humans in action is quite challenging as it involves using a huge setup with several motion trackers all over the person's body to track the movements of every limb. This is time-consuming and may cause the person discomfort…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Laxman Kumarapu , Prerana Mukherjee

Spatiotemporal human representation based on 3D visual perception data is a rapidly growing research area. Based on the information sources, these representations can be broadly categorized into two groups based on RGB-D information or 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Fei Han , Brian Reily , William Hoff , Hao Zhang

We present Pose-NDF, a continuous model for plausible human poses based on neural distance fields (NDFs). Pose or motion priors are important for generating realistic new poses and for reconstructing accurate poses from noisy or partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Garvita Tiwari , Dimitrije Antic , Jan Eric Lenssen , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Tony Tung , Gerard Pons-Moll

Animatable 3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem due to the ambiguity in decoupling geometry, appearance, and deformation. Recent advances in 3D human reconstruction mainly focus on static human modeling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Lingteng Qiu , Xiaodong Gu , Peihao Li , Qi Zuo , Weichao Shen , Junfei Zhang , Kejie Qiu , Weihao Yuan , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jian Shu , Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Junlong Ren , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexey Kotcov , Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Sausar Karaf , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Human motion modelling is a classical problem at the intersection of graphics and computer vision, with applications spanning human-computer interaction, motion synthesis, and motion prediction for virtual and augmented reality. Following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Julieta Martinez , Michael J. Black , Javier Romero

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

Secondary animation effects are essential for liveliness. We propose a simple, real-time solution for adding them on top of standard skinning, enabling artist-driven stylization of skeletal motion. Our method takes a standard skeleton…

We propose CrossHuman, a novel method that learns cross-guidance from parametric human model and multi-frame RGB images to achieve high-quality 3D human reconstruction. To recover geometry details and texture even in invisible regions, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Liliang Chen , Jiaqi Li , Han Huang , Yandong Guo

In multi-view human body capture systems, the recovered 3D geometry or even the acquired imagery data can be heavily corrupted due to occlusions, noise, limited field of- view, etc. Direct estimation of 3D pose, body shape or motion on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Zhong Li , Yu Ji , Wei Yang , Jinwei Ye , Jingyi Yu

Mental rotation -- the ability to compare objects seen from different viewpoints -- is a fundamental example of mental simulation and spatial world modeling in humans. Here we propose a mechanistic model of human mental rotation, leveraging…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-29 Raymond Khazoum , Daniela Fernandes , Aleksandr Krylov , Qin Li , Stephane Deny

We propose a novel neural rendering pipeline, Hybrid Volumetric-Textural Rendering (HVTR), which synthesizes virtual human avatars from arbitrary poses efficiently and at high quality. First, we learn to encode articulated human motions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Tao Hu , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , He Zhang , Yebin Liu , Matthias Zwicker

We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance and dynamics of a human face. Digitally modeling and reconstructing a talking human is a key building-block for a variety of applications. Especially, for telepresence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guy Gafni , Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We present the first image-based generative model of people in clothing for the full body. We sidestep the commonly used complex graphics rendering pipeline and the need for high-quality 3D scans of dressed people. Instead, we learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Christoph Lassner , Gerard Pons-Moll , Peter V. Gehler

Human shape spaces have been extensively studied, as they are a core element of human shape and pose inference tasks. Classic methods for creating a human shape model register a surface template mesh to a database of 3D scans and use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Stephan Wenninger , Fabian Kemper , Ulrich Schwanecke , Mario Botsch

Recent progress in human shape learning, shows that neural implicit models are effective in generating 3D human surfaces from limited number of views, and even from a single RGB image. However, existing monocular approaches still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Marco Pesavento , Yuanlu Xu , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Robert Maier , Ziyan Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Marco Volino , Edmond Boyer , Adrian Hilton , Tony Tung