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Reconstructing category-specific objects using Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) from a single image is a promising yet challenging task. Existing approaches predominantly rely on projection-based feature retrieval to associate 3D points in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kun Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiang Li , Jun Li , Jian Yang

We propose a novel framework to reconstruct accurate appearance and geometry with neural radiance fields (NeRF) for interacting hands, enabling the rendering of photo-realistic images and videos for gesture animation from arbitrary views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zhiyang Guo , Wengang Zhou , Min Wang , Li Li , Houqiang Li

Acquisition and creation of digital human avatars is an important problem with applications to virtual telepresence, gaming, and human modeling. Most contemporary approaches for avatar generation can be viewed either as 3D-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Amit Raj , Umar Iqbal , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Pavlo Molchanov , James Hays , Jan Kautz

Convenient 4D modeling of human-object interactions is essential for numerous applications. However, monocular tracking and rendering of complex interaction scenarios remain challenging. In this paper, we propose Instant-NVR, a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Yuheng Jiang , Kaixin Yao , Zhuo Su , Zhehao Shen , Haimin Luo , Lan Xu

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

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have proven to be powerful 3D representations, capable of high quality novel view synthesis of complex scenes. While NeRFs have been applied to graphics, vision, and robotics, problems with slow rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Ashkan Mirzaei , Marcus A. Brubaker , Jonathan Kelly , Alex Levinshtein , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Igor Gilitschenski

Hair plays a significant role in personal identity and appearance, making it an essential component of high-quality, photorealistic avatars. Existing approaches either focus on modeling the facial region only or rely on personalized models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Ziyan Wang , Giljoo Nam , Aljaz Bozic , Chen Cao , Jason Saragih , Michael Zollhoefer , Jessica Hodgins

Although neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown impressive advances for novel view synthesis, most methods typically require multiple input images of the same scene with accurate camera poses. In this work, we seek to substantially reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Kai-En Lin , Lin Yen-Chen , Wei-Sheng Lai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yi-Chang Shih , Ravi Ramamoorthi

3D representation and reconstruction of human bodies have been studied for a long time in computer vision. Traditional methods rely mostly on parametric statistical linear models, limiting the space of possible bodies to linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Sandro Lombardi , Bangbang Yang , Tianxing Fan , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

Obtaining personalized 3D animatable avatars from a monocular camera has several real world applications in gaming, virtual try-on, animation, and VR/XR, etc. However, it is very challenging to model dynamic and fine-grained clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuxuan Xue , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Riccardo Marin , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Yuanlu Xu , Gerard Pons-Moll , Tony Tung

In recent years, novel view synthesis has gained popularity in generating high-fidelity images. While demonstrating superior performance in the task of synthesizing novel views, the majority of these methods are still based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Xiaoyan Yang , Dingbo Lu , Yang Li , Chenhui Li , Changbo Wang

This paper addresses the challenge of quickly reconstructing free-viewpoint videos of dynamic humans from sparse multi-view videos. Some recent works represent the dynamic human as a canonical neural radiance field (NeRF) and a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Chen Geng , Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Active soft bodies can affect their shape through an internal actuation mechanism that induces a deformation. Similar to recent work, this paper utilizes a differentiable, quasi-static, and physics-based simulation layer to optimize for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Lingchen Yang , Byungsoo Kim , Gaspard Zoss , Baran Gözcü , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a powerful tool for implicit scene representations, allowing for differentiable rendering and the ability to make predictions about unseen viewpoints. There has been growing interest in object and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Boxuan Zhang , Lindsay Kleeman , Michael Burke

We present ASSIST, an object-wise neural radiance field as a panoptic representation for compositional and realistic simulation. Central to our approach is a novel scene node data structure that stores the information of each object in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Zhide Zhong , Jiakai Cao , Songen Gu , Sirui Xie , Weibo Gao , Liyi Luo , Zike Yan , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

We introduce an improved solution to the neural image-based rendering problem in computer vision. Given a set of images taken from a freely moving camera at train time, the proposed approach could synthesize a realistic image of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Nishant Jain , Suryansh Kumar , Luc Van Gool

Decomposing a scene into its shape, reflectance, and illumination is a challenging but important problem in computer vision and graphics. This problem is inherently more challenging when the illumination is not a single light source under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mark Boss , Raphael Braun , Varun Jampani , Jonathan T. Barron , Ce Liu , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has emerged as a compelling method to represent 3D objects and scenes for photo-realistic rendering. However, its implicit representation causes difficulty in manipulating the models like the explicit mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiaxiang Tang , Xiaokang Chen , Jingbo Wang , Gang Zeng

We present a novel neural implicit representation for articulated human bodies. Compared to explicit template meshes, neural implicit body representations provide an efficient mechanism for modeling interactions with the environment, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Marko Mihajlovic , Shunsuke Saito , Aayush Bansal , Michael Zollhoefer , Siyu Tang

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