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Controllable person image generation aims to produce realistic human images with desirable attributes such as a given pose, cloth textures, or hairstyles. However, the large spatial misalignment between source and target images makes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Jichao Zhang , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Hao Tang , Enver Sangineto , Wei Wang , Humphrey Sh , Nicu Sebe

Recent years have witnessed great progress in creating vivid audio-driven portraits from monocular videos. However, how to seamlessly adapt the created video avatars to other scenarios with different backgrounds and lighting conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haonan Qiu , Zhaoxi Chen , Yuming Jiang , Hang Zhou , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

We present GALA, a framework that takes as input a single-layer clothed 3D human mesh and decomposes it into complete multi-layered 3D assets. The outputs can then be combined with other assets to create novel clothed human avatars with any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Taeksoo Kim , Byungjun Kim , Shunsuke Saito , Hanbyul Joo

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

We propose a novel approach to synthesizing images that are effective for training object detectors. Starting from a small set of real images, our algorithm estimates the rendering parameters required to synthesize similar images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Artem Rozantsev , Vincent Lepetit , Pascal Fua

We present SCANimate, an end-to-end trainable framework that takes raw 3D scans of a clothed human and turns them into an animatable avatar. These avatars are driven by pose parameters and have realistic clothing that moves and deforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Shunsuke Saito , Jinlong Yang , Qianli Ma , Michael J. Black

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu

Neural fields have recently enjoyed great success in representing and rendering 3D scenes. However, most state-of-the-art implicit representations model static or dynamic scenes as a whole, with minor variations. Existing work on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Akshay Krishnan , Amit Raj , Xianling Zhang , Alexandra Carlson , Nathan Tseng , Sandhya Sridhar , Nikita Jaipuria , James Hays

Driving a high-quality and photorealistic full-body virtual human from a few RGB cameras is a challenging problem that has become increasingly relevant with emerging virtual reality technologies. A promising solution to democratize such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Anton Zubekhin , Heming Zhu , Paulo Gotardo , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic neural radiance field based on neural graphics primitives embedded around a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wojciech Zielonka , Timo Bolkart , Justus Thies

We present HAHA - a novel approach for animatable human avatar generation from monocular input videos. The proposed method relies on learning the trade-off between the use of Gaussian splatting and a textured mesh for efficient and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

Photorealistic and controllable human avatars have gained popularity in the research community thanks to rapid advances in neural rendering, providing fast and realistic synthesis tools. However, a limitation of current solutions is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

We present HumanNeRF-SE, a simple yet effective method that synthesizes diverse novel pose images with simple input. Previous HumanNeRF works require a large number of optimizable parameters to fit the human images. Instead, we reload these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Caoyuan Ma , Yu-Lun Liu , Zhixiang Wang , Wu Liu , Xinchen Liu , Zheng Wang

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

Synthesizing realistic videos of talking faces under custom lighting conditions and viewing angles benefits various downstream applications like video conferencing. However, most existing relighting methods are either time-consuming or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Ziqi Cai , Kaiwen Jiang , Shu-Yu Chen , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Boxin Shi , Lin Gao

The appearance of a human in clothing is driven not only by the pose but also by its temporal context, i.e., motion. However, such context has been largely neglected by existing monocular human modeling methods whose neural networks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hansol Lee , Junuk Cha , Yunhoe Ku , Jae Shin Yoon , Seungryul Baek

We describe a novel approach to decompose a single panorama of an empty indoor environment into four appearance components: specular, direct sunlight, diffuse and diffuse ambient without direct sunlight. Our system is weakly supervised by…

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown impressive results for the novel view synthesis task, where lighting is assumed to be fixed. However, creating relightable 3D assets, especially for objects with ill-defined shapes (fur, fabric, etc.),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiahui Fan , Fujun Luan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

Constructing and animating humans is an important component for building virtual worlds in a wide variety of applications such as virtual reality or robotics testing in simulation. As there are exponentially many variations of humans with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ze Yang , Shenlong Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Zeng Huang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Xinchen Yan , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun