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With the growing demand for real-time video enhancement in live applications, existing methods often struggle to balance speed and effective exposure control, particularly under uneven lighting. We introduce RRNet (Rendering Relighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Wenlong Yang , Canran Jin , Weihang Yuan , Chao Wang , Lifeng Sun

In this work, a system for creating a relightable 3D portrait of a human head is presented. Our neural pipeline operates on a sequence of frames captured by a smartphone camera with the flash blinking (flash-no flash sequence). A coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Artem Sevastopolsky , Savva Ignatiev , Gonzalo Ferrer , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

The field of image-to-video generation has made remarkable progress. However, challenges such as human limb twisting and facial distortion persist, especially when generating long videos or modeling intensive motions. Existing human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chang Liu , Mengting Chen , Yixuan Huang , Haoning Wu , Chen Ju , Shuai Xiao , Jinsong Lan , Yanfeng Wang

We propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

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…

Inverse rendering aims to estimate physical attributes of a scene, e.g., reflectance, geometry, and lighting, from image(s). Inverse rendering has been studied primarily for single objects or with methods that solve for only one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Soumyadip Sengupta , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Guilin Liu , David W. Jacobs , Jan Kautz

We address the problem of photorealistic 3D face avatar synthesis from sparse images. Existing Parametric models for face avatar reconstruction struggle to generate details that originate from inputs. Meanwhile, although current NeRF-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Weichen Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Yukang Cao , Wensen Feng , Chun Yuan

Generating high-fidelity upper-body 3D avatars from one-shot input image remains a significant challenge. Current 3D avatar generation methods, which rely on large reconstruction models, are fast and capable of producing stable body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Yang , Heyuan Li , Peihao Li , Weihao Yuan , Lingteng Qiu , Chaoyue Song , Cheng Chen , Yisheng He , Shifeng Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Steven Hoi , Guosheng Lin

Capturing and faithfully rendering photo-realistic humans from novel views is a fundamental problem for AR/VR applications. While prior work has shown impressive performance capture results in laboratory settings, it is non-trivial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Phong Nguyen-Ha , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Christoph Lassner , Janne Heikkila , Tony Tung

Synthesizing realistic videos of humans using neural networks has been a popular alternative to the conventional graphics-based rendering pipeline due to its high efficiency. Existing works typically formulate this as an image-to-image…

The creation of lifelike human avatars capable of realistic pose variation and viewpoint flexibility remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Current approaches typically yield either geometrically inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Chia-Hern Lai , I-Hsuan Lo , Yen-Ku Yeh , Thanh-Nguyen Truong , Ching-Chun Huang

We present a new approach for synthesizing novel views of people in new poses. Our novel differentiable renderer enables the synthesis of highly realistic images from any viewpoint. Rather than operating over mesh-based structures, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Guillaume Rochette , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

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

Relighting of human images enables post-photography editing of lighting effects in portraits. The current mainstream approach uses neural networks to approximate lighting effects without explicitly accounting for the principle of physical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Daichi Tajima , Yoshihiro Kanamori , Yuki Endo

Synthesizing photorealistic 4D human head avatars from videos is essential for VR/AR, telepresence, and video game applications. Although existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based methods achieve high-fidelity results, the computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hao-Bin Duan , Miao Wang , Jin-Chuan Shi , Xu-Chuan Chen , Yan-Pei Cao

Existing methods for relightable view synthesis -- using a set of images of an object under unknown lighting to recover a 3D representation that can be rendered from novel viewpoints under a target illumination -- are based on inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoming Zhao , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin , Keunhong Park , Ricardo Martin Brualla , Philipp Henzler

Recovering photorealistic and drivable full-body avatars is crucial for numerous applications, including virtual reality, 3D games, and tele-presence. Most methods, whether reconstruction or generation, require large numbers of human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Zhaolong Wang , Xiangru Lin , Zongqing Lu , Yuxi Zhao , Hanqing Wei , Jingrui Ye , Yu Zhang , Zhijing Shao

We present a single-image data-driven method to automatically relight images with full-body humans in them. Our framework is based on a realistic scene decomposition leveraging precomputed radiance transfer (PRT) and spherical harmonics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Manuel Lagunas , Xin Sun , Jimei Yang , Ruben Villegas , Jianming Zhang , Zhixin Shu , Belen Masia , Diego Gutierrez

Recent advancements in 3D avatar generation excel with multi-view supervision for photorealistic models. However, monocular counterparts lag in quality despite broader applicability. We propose ReCaLaB to close this gap. ReCaLaB is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuchen Rao , Eduardo Perez Pellitero , Benjamin Busam , Yiren Zhou , Jifei Song