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Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

Strand-level hair geometry reconstruction is a fundamental problem in virtual human modeling and the digitization of hairstyles. However, existing methods still suffer from a significant trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Da Li , Dominik Engel , Deng Luo , Ivan Viola

Due to the increasing use of virtual avatars, the animation of head-hand interactions has recently gained attention. To this end, we present a novel volumetric and physics-based interaction simulation. In contrast to previous work, our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Nicolas Wagner , Mario Botsch , Ulrich Schwanecke

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

Reconstructing high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from effortlessly captured monocular videos is a pivotal yet formidable challenge. Although significant progress has been made in rendering performance and manipulation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiawei Zhang , Zijian Wu , Zhiyang Liang , Yicheng Gong , Dongfang Hu , Yao Yao , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Visually exploring in a real-world 4D spatiotemporal space freely in VR has been a long-term quest. The task is especially appealing when only a few or even single RGB cameras are used for capturing the dynamic scene. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Liangchen Song , Anpei Chen , Zhong Li , Zhang Chen , Lele Chen , Junsong Yuan , Yi Xu , Andreas Geiger

Robotic avatars promise immersive teleoperation with human-like manipulation and communication capabilities. We present such an avatar system, based on the key components of immersive 3D visualization and transparent force-feedback…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Max Schwarz , Christian Lenz , Andre Rochow , Michael Schreiber , Sven Behnke

We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

As the digital and physical worlds become more intertwined, there has been a lot of interest in digital avatars that closely resemble their real-world counterparts. Current digitization methods used in 3D production pipelines require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Wang , Ivan Molodetskikh , Ondrej Texler , Dimitar Dinev

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

We introduce VOODOO XP: a 3D-aware one-shot head reenactment method that can generate highly expressive facial expressions from any input driver video and a single 2D portrait. Our solution is real-time, view-consistent, and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Phong Tran , Egor Zakharov , Long-Nhat Ho , Liwen Hu , Adilbek Karmanov , Aviral Agarwal , McLean Goldwhite , Ariana Bermudez Venegas , Anh Tuan Tran , Hao Li

We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video. A parameterized body model is refined and optimized to maximally resemble subjects from a video showing them from all sides. Our avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present R3-Avatar, incorporating a temporal codebook, to overcome the inability of human avatars to be both animatable and of high-fidelity rendering quality. Existing video-based reconstruction of 3D human avatars either focuses solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yifan Zhan , Wangze Xu , Qingtian Zhu , Muyao Niu , Mingze Ma , Yifei Liu , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Modeling relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular video is a long-standing and challenging task. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have been employed to reconstruct the avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Seonghwa Choi , Moonkyeong Choi , Mingyu Jang , Jaekyung Kim , Jianfei Cai , Wen-Huang Cheng , Sanghoon Lee

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Creating high-fidelity head avatars from multi-view videos is a core issue for many AR/VR applications. However, existing methods usually struggle to obtain high-quality renderings for all different head components simultaneously since they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Cong Wang , Di Kang , He-Yi Sun , Shen-Han Qian , Zi-Xuan Wang , Linchao Bao , Song-Hai Zhang

Creating high-fidelity and editable head avatars is a pivotal challenge in computer vision and graphics, boosting many AR/VR applications. While recent advancements have achieved photorealistic renderings and plausible animation, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Heyi Sun , Cong Wang , Tian-Xing Xu , Jingwei Huang , Di Kang , Chunchao Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Generating free-viewpoint videos is critical for immersive VR/AR experience but recent neural advances still lack the editing ability to manipulate the visual perception for large dynamic scenes. To fill this gap, in this paper we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Jiakai Zhang , Xinhang Liu , Xinyi Ye , Fuqiang Zhao , Yanshun Zhang , Minye Wu , Yingliang Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu