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Humans form mental images of 3D scenes to support counterfactual imagination, planning, and motor control. Our abilities to predict the appearance and affordance of the scene from previously unobserved viewpoints aid us in performing…

We present a single-image head mesh reconstruction framework that addresses the longstanding challenge of simultaneously preserving facial identity and producing industry-grade topology. Our framework adopts a coarse-to-fine optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yunmu Wang , Zoubin Bi , Bowen Cai , Chenchu Rong , Jinlong Wang , Junchen Deng , Aocheng Huang , Jidong Jia , Huan Fu

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

In this work, we use multi-view aerial images to reconstruct the geometry, lighting, and material of facades using neural signed distance fields (SDFs). Without the requirement of complex equipment, our method only takes simple RGB images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zixuan Xie , Rengan Xie , Rong Li , Kai Huang , Pengju Qiao , Jingsen Zhu , Xu Yin , Qi Ye , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

Refractive Index Tomography is the inverse problem of reconstructing the continuously-varying 3D refractive index in a scene using 2D projected image measurements. Although a purely refractive field is not directly visible, it bends light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in an unsupervised way, by properly constraining the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) coupled with GANs represent a promising direction in the area of 3D reconstruction from a single view, owing to their ability to efficiently model arbitrary topologies. Recent work in this area, however, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Dario Pavllo , David Joseph Tan , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Federico Tombari

Recent learning approaches that implicitly represent surface geometry using coordinate-based neural representations have shown impressive results in the problem of multi-view 3D reconstruction. The effectiveness of these techniques is,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Eduard Ramon , Gil Triginer , Janna Escur , Albert Pumarola , Jaime Garcia , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We propose a novel method that reconstructs hair strands directly from colorless 3D scans by leveraging multi-modal hair orientation extraction. Hair strand reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision and graphics, essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Rachmadio Noval Lazuardi , Artem Sevastopolsky , Egor Zakharov , Matthias Niessner , Vanessa Sklyarova

Efficient and accurate reconstruction of a relightable, dynamic clothed human avatar from a monocular video is crucial for the entertainment industry. This paper presents SGIA (Surfel-based Gaussian Inverse Avatar), which introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yiqun Zhao , Chenming Wu , Binbin Huang , Yihao Zhi , Chen Zhao , Jingdong Wang , Shenghua Gao

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

3D face reconstruction from a single 2D image is a very important topic in computer vision. However, the current reconstruction methods are usually non-sensitive to face identities and over-sensitive to facial poses, which may result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Yao Luo , Xiaoguang Tu , Mei Xie

For image restoration, methods leveraging priors from generative models have been proposed and demonstrated a promising capacity to robustly restore photorealistic and high-quality results. However, these methods are susceptible to semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yanhui Guo , Fangzhou Luo , Shaoyuan Xu

We present a novel approach for super-resolution that utilizes implicit neural representation (INR) to effectively reconstruct and enhance low-resolution videos and images. By leveraging the capacity of neural networks to implicitly encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mary Aiyetigbo , Wanqi Yuan , Feng Luo , Nianyi Li

Modeling 3D humans accurately and robustly from a single image is very challenging, and the key for such an ill-posed problem is the 3D representation of the human models. To overcome the limitations of regular 3D representations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Zerong Zheng , Tao Yu , Yebin Liu , Qionghai Dai

We present Vid2Avatar, a method to learn human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Reconstructing humans that move naturally from monocular in-the-wild videos is difficult. Solving it requires accurately separating humans from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

We propose a novel method for 3D object reconstruction from a sparse set of views captured from a 360-degree calibrated camera rig. We represent the object surface through a hybrid model that uses both an MLP-based neural representation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Llukman Cerkezi , Paolo Favaro

This paper tackles the problem of estimating 3D body shape of clothed humans from single polarized 2D images, i.e. polarization images. Polarization images are known to be able to capture polarized reflected lights that preserve rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Yiming Qian , Sen Wang , Chi Xu , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng