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Recent advances in 3D scanning technology have enabled the deployment of 3D models in various industrial applications like digital twins, remote inspection and reverse engineering. Despite their evolving performance, 3D scanners, still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Stavros Nousias , Gerasimos Arvanitis , Aris S. Lalos , Konstantinos Moustakas

We present an algorithm that automatically establishes dense correspondences between a large number of 3D faces. Starting from automatically detected sparse correspondences on the outer boundary of 3D faces, the algorithm triangulates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Ajmal Mian , Faisal Shafait , Ian Reid

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang

Creating realistic human videos entails the challenge of being able to simultaneously generate both appearance, as well as motion. To tackle this challenge, we introduce G$^{3}$AN, a novel spatio-temporal generative model, which seeks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yaohui Wang , Piotr Bilinski , Francois Bremond , Antitza Dantcheva

Face animation aims at creating photo-realistic portrait videos with animated poses and expressions. A common practice is to generate displacement fields that are used to warp pixels and features from source to target. However, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yatao Zhong , Faezeh Amjadi , Ilya Zharkov

Cross-Database Micro-Expression Recognition (CDMER) aims to develop the Micro-Expression Recognition (MER) methods with strong domain adaptability, i.e., the ability to recognize the Micro-Expressions (MEs) of different subjects captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Xingxun Jiang , Yuan Zong , Wenming Zheng , Jiateng Liu , Mengting Wei

3D face editing is a significant task in multimedia, aimed at the manipulation of 3D face models across various control signals. The success of 3D-aware GAN provides expressive 3D models learned from 2D single-view images only, encouraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Zhuo Chen , Yichao Yan , Sehngqi Liu , Yuhao Cheng , Weiming Zhao , Lincheng Li , Mengxiao Bi , Xiaokang Yang

Masked generative models have become a strong paradigm for text-to-motion synthesis, but they still treat motion frames too uniformly during masking, attention, and decoding. This is a poor match for motion, where local dynamic complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Pengfei Zhou , Xiangyue Zhang , Xukun Shen , Yong Hu

In this paper, we focus on the facial expression translation task and propose a novel Expression Conditional GAN (ECGAN) which can learn the mapping from one image domain to another one based on an additional expression attribute. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Hao Tang , Wei Wang , Songsong Wu , Xinya Chen , Dan Xu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann

Unsupervised learning of 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs) using only collections of single-view 2D photographs has very recently made much progress. These 3D GANs, however, have not been demonstrated for human bodies and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexander W. Bergman , Petr Kellnhofer , Wang Yifan , Eric R. Chan , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Audio-driven talking head generation is a significant and challenging task applicable to various fields such as virtual avatars, film production, and online conferences. However, the existing GAN-based models emphasize generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jintao Tan , Xize Cheng , Lingyu Xiong , Lei Zhu , Xiandong Li , Xianjia Wu , Kai Gong , Minglei Li , Yi Cai

3D facial animation is often produced by manipulating facial deformation models (or rigs), that are traditionally parameterized by expression controls. A key component that is usually overlooked is expression 'style', as in, how a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Lingchen Yang , Gaspard Zoss , Prashanth Chandran , Paulo Gotardo , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler , Eftychios Sifakis , Derek Bradley

We present PERSE, a method for building a personalized 3D generative avatar from a reference portrait. Our avatar enables facial attribute editing in a continuous and disentangled latent space to control each facial attribute, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hyunsoo Cha , Inhee Lee , Hanbyul Joo

One-shot video-driven talking face generation aims at producing a synthetic talking video by transferring the facial motion from a video to an arbitrary portrait image. Head pose and facial expression are always entangled in facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Weize Quan , Yanbo Fan , Xiaodong Cun , Ying Shan , Dong-ming Yan

Despite the significant success in image-to-image translation and latent representation based facial attribute editing and expression synthesis, the existing approaches still have limitations in the sharpness of details, distinct image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 WenTing Chen , Xinpeng Xie , Xi Jia , Linlin Shen

In this paper, we present an approach for combining non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM) with deep generative models,and propose an efficient framework for discovering trajectories in the latent space of 2D GANs corresponding to changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 René Haas , Stella Graßhof , Sami S. Brandt

While current face animation methods can manipulate expressions individually, they suffer from several limitations. The expressions manipulated by some motion-based facial reenactment models are crude. Other ideas modeled with facial action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tianxiang Ma , Bingchuan Li , Qian He , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

We propose a framework to learn a structured latent space to represent 4D human body motion, where each latent vector encodes a full motion of the whole 3D human shape. On one hand several data-driven skeletal animation models exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mathieu Marsot , Stefanie Wuhrer , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Stephane Durocher

Generating 3D faces from textual descriptions has a multitude of applications, such as gaming, movie, and robotics. Recent progresses have demonstrated the success of unconditional 3D face generation and text-to-3D shape generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Cuican Yu , Guansong Lu , Yihan Zeng , Jian Sun , Xiaodan Liang , Huibin Li , Zongben Xu , Songcen Xu , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu