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Generating both plausible and accurate full body avatar motion is the key to the quality of immersive experiences in mixed reality scenarios. Head-Mounted Devices (HMDs) typically only provide a few input signals, such as head and hands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Sadegh Aliakbarian , Fatemeh Saleh , David Collier , Pashmina Cameron , Darren Cosker

This paper studies the task of full generative modelling of realistic images of humans, guided only by coarse sketch of the pose, while providing control over the specific instance or type of outfit worn by the user. This is a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Generating realistic 3D hand-object interactions (HOI) is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics, requiring both temporal coherence and high-fidelity physical plausibility. Existing methods remain limited in their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Jiankang Deng , Cordelia Schmid , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In multi-view 3D human pose estimation, models typically rely on images captured simultaneously from different camera views to predict a pose at a specific moment. While providing accurate spatial information, this traditional approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ling Li , Changjie Chen , Yuyan Wang , Jiaqing Lyu , Kenglun Chang , Yiyun Chen , Zhidong Deng

The human hand moves in complex and high-dimensional ways, making estimation of 3D hand pose configurations from images alone a challenging task. In this work we propose a method to learn a statistical hand model represented by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Adrian Spurr , Jie Song , Seonwook Park , Otmar Hilliges

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, portrait image animation has achieved remarkable results. However, it still faces challenges in temporally consistent video generation and fast sampling due to its iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Taekyung Ki , Dongchan Min , Gyeongsu Chae

Robust and accurate perception of humans in their 3D scene context is essential for integrating robots into everyday environments. Existing approaches, however, often fail to predict plausible and accurate human motion estimates that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Simon Schaefer , Joshua Näf , Stefan Leutenegger

We introduce a latent 3D representation that models 3D surfaces as probability density functions in 3D, i.e., p(x,y,z), with flow-matching. Our representation is specifically designed for consumption by machine learning models, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Yuyang Wang , Miguel Angel Bautista Martin , Jiatao Gu , Xiaoming Zhao , Josh Susskind , Oncel Tuzel

Generating 3D scenes from human motion sequences supports numerous applications, including virtual reality and architectural design. However, previous auto-regression-based human-aware 3D scene generation methods have struggled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Xiaolin Hong , Hongwei Yi , Fazhi He , Qiong Cao

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

Recent generative models can synthesize high-quality images, but they often fail to generate humans interacting with objects using their hands. This arises mostly from the model's misunderstanding of such interactions and the hardships of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Patrick Kwon , Chen Chen , Hanbyul Joo

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

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

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Steiner , Zhang Chen , Alexander Richard , Vasu Agrawal , Markus Steinberger , Michael Zollhöfer

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Daniele Reda , Jungdam Won , Yuting Ye , Michiel van de Panne , Alexander Winkler

The creation of high-fidelity, digital versions of human heads is an important stepping stone in the process of further integrating virtual components into our everyday lives. Constructing such avatars is a challenging research problem, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Simon Giebenhain , Tobias Kirschstein , Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner

Motion transfer from the driving to the source portrait remains a key challenge in the portrait animation. Current diffusion-based approaches condition only on the driving motion, which fails to capture source-to-driving correspondences and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yating Xu , Yunqi Miao , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song

Estimating full-body human motion via sparse tracking signals from head-mounted displays and hand controllers in 3D scenes is crucial to applications in AR/VR. One of the biggest challenges to this task is the one-to-many mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiangnan Tang , Jingya Wang , Kaiyang Ji , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Monocular 3D human pose and shape estimation is challenging due to the many degrees of freedom of the human body and thedifficulty to acquire training data for large-scale supervised learning in complex visual scenes. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Hongyi Xu , Bill Freeman , Rahul Sukthankar , Cristian Sminchisescu