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In this paper, we present our method for neural face reenactment, called HyperReenact, that aims to generate realistic talking head images of a source identity, driven by a target facial pose. Existing state-of-the-art face reenactment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Motivated by augmented and virtual reality applications such as telepresence, there has been a recent focus in real-time performance capture of humans under motion. However, given the real-time constraint, these systems often suffer from…

We propose a differentiable rendering algorithm for efficient novel view synthesis. By departing from volume-based representations in favor of a learned point representation, we improve on existing methods more than an order of magnitude in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Qiang Zhang , Seung-Hwan Baek , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Felix Heide

We propose a neural rendering-based system that creates head avatars from a single photograph. Our approach models a person's appearance by decomposing it into two layers. The first layer is a pose-dependent coarse image that is synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Egor Zakharov , Aleksei Ivakhnenko , Aliaksandra Shysheya , Victor Lempitsky

Recent methods for audio-driven talking head synthesis often optimize neural radiance fields (NeRF) on a monocular talking portrait video, leveraging its capability to render high-fidelity and 3D-consistent novel-view frames. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jaehoon Ko , Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Sangmin Lee , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

Neural volume rendering techniques, such as NeRF, have revolutionized 3D-aware image synthesis by enabling the generation of images of a single scene or object from various camera poses. However, the high computational cost of NeRF presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Peng Zheng , Linzhi Huang , Yizhou Yu , Yi Chang , Yilin Wang , Rui Ma

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexey Kotcov , Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Sausar Karaf , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has demonstrated its superior capability to represent 3D geometry but require accurately precomputed camera poses during training. To mitigate this requirement, existing methods jointly optimize camera poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Video-to-video synthesis is a challenging problem aiming at learning a translation function between a sequence of semantic maps and a photo-realistic video depicting the characteristics of a driving video. We propose a head-to-head system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Michail Christos Doukas , Anastasios Roussos , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Fast and robust three-dimensional reconstruction of facial geometric structure from a single image is a challenging task with numerous applications. Here, we introduce a learning-based approach for reconstructing a three-dimensional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Elad Richardson , Matan Sela , Ron Kimmel

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Generating realistic talking faces is an interesting and long-standing topic in the field of computer vision. Although significant progress has been made, it is still challenging to generate high-quality dynamic faces with personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bo Ding , Zhenfeng Fan , Shuang Yang , Shihong Xia

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have emerged as powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and SLAM tasks. However, their performance depends heavily on accurate camera pose priors. Existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Talking head generation based on the neural radiation fields model has shown promising visual effects. However, the slow rendering speed of NeRF seriously limits its application, due to the burdensome calculation process over hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Niu Guanchen

We present Neural Voice Puppetry, a novel approach for audio-driven facial video synthesis. Given an audio sequence of a source person or digital assistant, we generate a photo-realistic output video of a target person that is in sync with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Justus Thies , Mohamed Elgharib , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt , Matthias Nießner

Photorealistic rendering of dynamic humans is an important ability for telepresence systems, virtual shopping, synthetic data generation, and more. Recently, neural rendering methods, which combine techniques from computer graphics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Ziyan Wang , Timur Bagautdinov , Stephen Lombardi , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Jessica Hodgins , Michael Zollhöfer

Audio-driven portrait animation aims to synthesize realistic and natural talking head videos from an input audio signal and a single reference image. While existing methods achieve high-quality results by leveraging high-dimensional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Fangyu Du , Taiqing Li , Qian Qiao , Tan Yu , Ziwei Zhang , Dingcheng Zhen , Xu Jia , Yang Yang , Shunshun Yin , Siyuan Liu

The goal of face reenactment is to transfer a target expression and head pose to a source face while preserving the source identity. With the popularity of face-related applications, there has been much research on this topic. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wonjun Kang , Geonsu Lee , Hyung Il Koo , Nam Ik Cho