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This report introduces Make-A-Character 2, an advanced system for generating high-quality 3D characters from single portrait photographs, ideal for game development and digital human applications. Make-A-Character 2 builds upon its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Lin Liu , Yutong Wang , Jiahao Chen , Jianfang Li , Tangli Xue , Longlong Li , Jianqiang Ren , Liefeng Bo

We are living in a flourishing era of digital media, where everyone has the potential to become a personal filmmaker. Current research on video generation suggests a promising avenue for controllable film creation in pixel space using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Weiliang Chen , Fangfu Liu , Diankun Wu , Haowen Sun , Jiwen Lu , Yueqi Duan

Skeleton-based human action recognition has been drawing more interest recently due to its low sensitivity to appearance changes and the accessibility of more skeleton data. However, even the 3D skeletons captured in practice are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Cunling Bian , Wei Feng , Fanbo Meng , Song Wang

3D skeleton-based action recognition (3D SAR) has gained significant attention within the computer vision community, owing to the inherent advantages offered by skeleton data. As a result, a plethora of impressive works, including those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Bin Ren , Mengyuan Liu , Runwei Ding , Hong Liu

Human pose estimation - the process of recognizing a human's limb positions and orientations in a video - has many important applications including surveillance, diagnosis of movement disorders, and computer animation. While deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Steven Schwarcz , Thomas Pollard

The computer vision community is currently focusing on solving action recognition problems in real videos, which contain thousands of samples with many challenges. In this process, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNNs) have played a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Huy-Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zixiang Zhou , Yu Wan , Baoyuan Wang

Existing automatic approaches for 3D virtual character motion synthesis supporting scene interactions do not generalise well to new objects outside training distributions, even when trained on extensive motion capture datasets with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Wanyue Zhang , Rishabh Dabral , Thomas Leimkühler , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

This project investigates the human multi-modal behavior identification algorithm utilizing deep neural networks. According to the characteristics of different modal information, different deep neural networks are used to adapt to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jinyin Wang , Xingchen Li , Yixuan Jin , Yihao Zhong , Keke Zhang , Chang Zhou

Optical motion capture systems have become a widely used technology in various fields, such as augmented reality, robotics, movie production, etc. Such systems use a large number of cameras to triangulate the position of optical markers.The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Taras Kucherenko , Jonas Beskow , Hedvig Kjellström

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Daniele Reda , Jungdam Won , Yuting Ye , Michiel van de Panne , Alexander Winkler

Aiming at automatic, convenient and non-instrusive motion capture, this paper presents a new generation markerless motion capture technique, the FlyCap system, to capture surface motions of moving characters using multiple autonomous flying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Lan Xu , Lu Fang , Wei Cheng , Kaiwen Guo , Guyue Zhou , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

Human action recognition plays an important role when developing intelligent interactions between humans and machines. While there is a lot of active research on improving the machine learning algorithms for skeleton-based action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Daniel Bermuth , Alexander Poeppel , Wolfgang Reif

Facial motion retargeting is an important problem in both computer graphics and vision, which involves capturing the performance of a human face and transferring it to another 3D character. Learning 3D morphable model (3DMM) parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Bindita Chaudhuri , Noranart Vesdapunt , Baoyuan Wang

We present Better Together, a method that simultaneously solves the human pose estimation problem while reconstructing a photorealistic 3D human avatar from multi-view videos. While prior art usually solves these problems separately, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Arthur Moreau , Mohammed Brahimi , Richard Shaw , Athanasios Papaioannou , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Gesture recognition is essential for the interaction of autonomous vehicles with humans. While the current approaches focus on combining several modalities like image features, keypoints and bone vectors, we present neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Adrian Holzbock , Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Youssef Dawoud , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Recent research into human action recognition (HAR) has focused predominantly on skeletal action recognition and video-based methods. With the increasing availability of consumer-grade depth sensors and Lidar instruments, there is a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 James Dickens

This paper presents an automated method for 3D character skeleton extraction that can be applied for generic 3D shapes. Our work is motivated by the skeleton-based prior work on automatic rigging focused on skeleton extraction and can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Yong Khoo , Sang Chung

From an image of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D motion of the person in the immediate past and future. This is because we have a mental model of 3D human dynamics that we have acquired from observing visual sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Angjoo Kanazawa , Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik

Creating compelling 3D character animations typically requires either expert use of professional software or expensive motion capture systems operated by skilled actors. We present DancingBox, a lightweight, vision-based system that makes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haocheng Yuan , Adrien Bousseau , Hao Pan , Lei Zhong , Changjian Li