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We present a system for learning full-body neural avatars, i.e. deep networks that produce full-body renderings of a person for varying body pose and camera position. Our system takes the middle path between the classical graphics pipeline…

Recent advances in 3D foundation models have led to growing interest in reconstructing humans and their surrounding environments. However, most existing approaches focus on monocular inputs, and extending them to multi-view settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sangmin Kim , Minhyuk Hwang , Geonho Cha , Dongyoon Wee , Jaesik Park

We present a new pose transfer method for synthesizing a human animation from a single image of a person controlled by a sequence of body poses. Existing pose transfer methods exhibit significant visual artifacts when applying to a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jae Shin Yoon , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Hyun Soo Park , Christian Theobalt

We present an end-to-end neural network-based model for inferring an approximate 3D mesh representation of a human face from single camera input for AR applications. The relatively dense mesh model of 468 vertices is well-suited for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Yury Kartynnik , Artsiom Ablavatski , Ivan Grishchenko , Matthias Grundmann

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Rendering photorealistic and dynamically moving human heads is crucial for ensuring a pleasant and immersive experience in AR/VR and video conferencing applications. However, existing methods often struggle to model challenging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Cong Wang , Di Kang , Yan-Pei Cao , Linchao Bao , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

We present AvatarReX, a new method for learning NeRF-based full-body avatars from video data. The learnt avatar not only provides expressive control of the body, hands and the face together, but also supports real-time animation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zerong Zheng , Xiaochen Zhao , Hongwen Zhang , Boning Liu , Yebin Liu

We present DINAR, an approach for creating realistic rigged fullbody avatars from single RGB images. Similarly to previous works, our method uses neural textures combined with the SMPL-X body model to achieve photo-realistic quality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 David Svitov , Dmitrii Gudkov , Renat Bashirov , Victor Lempitsky

Recent image-to-3D reconstruction models have greatly advanced geometry generation, but they still struggle to faithfully generate realistic appearance. To address this, we introduce ARM, a novel method that reconstructs high-quality 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Xiang Feng , Chang Yu , Zoubin Bi , Yintong Shang , Feng Gao , Hongzhi Wu , Kun Zhou , Chenfanfu Jiang , Yin Yang

We introduce RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

In this work, we advance the neural head avatar technology to the megapixel resolution while focusing on the particularly challenging task of cross-driving synthesis, i.e., when the appearance of the driving image is substantially different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Nikita Drobyshev , Jenya Chelishev , Taras Khakhulin , Aleksei Ivakhnenko , Victor Lempitsky , Egor Zakharov

Photo-realistic human avatars have broad applications, yet high-fidelity avatar generation has traditionally required expensive professional camera rigs and extensive artistic labor. Recent research has enabled constructing them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Akash Haridas , Imran N. Junejo

We present HARP (HAnd Reconstruction and Personalization), a personalized hand avatar creation approach that takes a short monocular RGB video of a human hand as input and reconstructs a faithful hand avatar exhibiting a high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Sergey Prokudin , Otmar Hilliges , Siyu Tang

Existing neural head avatars methods have achieved significant progress in the image quality and motion range of portrait animation. However, these methods neglect the computational overhead, and to the best of our knowledge, none is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jianwen Jiang , Gaojie Lin , Zhengkun Rong , Chao Liang , Yongming Zhu , Jiaqi Yang , Tianyun Zhong

Reconstructing personalized animatable head avatars has significant implications in the fields of AR/VR. Existing methods for achieving explicit face control of 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) typically rely on multi-view images or videos of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haoyu Ma , Tong Zhang , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

We present a system to create Mobile Realistic Fullbody (MoRF) avatars. MoRF avatars are rendered in real-time on mobile devices, learned from monocular videos, and have high realism. We use SMPL-X as a proxy geometry and render it with DNR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Renat Bashirov , Alexey Larionov , Evgeniya Ustinova , Mikhail Sidorenko , David Svitov , Ilya Zakharkin , Victor Lempitsky

In high-end visual effects pipelines, a customized (and expensive) light stage system is (typically) used to scan an actor in order to acquire both geometry and texture for various expressions. Aiming towards democratization, we propose a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yilin Zhu , Dalton Omens , Haodi He , Ron Fedkiw

In autonomous driving applications, accurate and efficient road surface reconstruction is paramount. This paper introduces RoMe, a novel framework designed for the robust reconstruction of large-scale road surfaces. Leveraging a unique mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ruohong Mei , Wei Sui , Jiaxin Zhang , Xue Qin , Gang Wang , Tao Peng , Cong Yang

Many deep learning based 3D face reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, however, few of them have applications in games. Current game character customization systems either require players to manually adjust considerable face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jiangke Lin , Yi Yuan , Zhengxia Zou