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Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

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We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

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Automatic synthesis of faces from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and has wide applications in law enforcement and entertainment. With the advent of deep generative convolutional neural networks (CNNs), attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Xing Di , Vishal M. Patel

Creating virtual avatars with realistic rendering is one of the most essential and challenging tasks to provide highly immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences. It requires not only sophisticated deep neural network (DNN) based codec…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Xiaofan Zhang , Dawei Wang , Pierce Chuang , Shugao Ma , Deming Chen , Yuecheng Li

Facial stylization aims to transform facial images into appealing, high-quality stylized portraits, with the critical challenge of accurately learning the target style while maintaining content consistency with the original image. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhanyi Lu , Yue Zhou

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We present a novel prompting strategy for artificial intelligence driven digital avatars. To better quantify how our prompting strategy affects anthropomorphic features like humor, authenticity, and favorability we present Crowd Vote - an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Timothy Rupprecht , Sung-En Chang , Yushu Wu , Lei Lu , Enfu Nan , Chih-hsiang Li , Caiyue Lai , Zhimin Li , Zhijun Hu , Yumei He , David Kaeli , Yanzhi Wang

While large-scale pre-trained text-to-image models can synthesize diverse and high-quality human-centric images, an intractable problem is how to preserve the face identity for conditioned face images. Existing methods either require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhuowei Chen , Shancheng Fang , Wei Liu , Qian He , Mengqi Huang , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

This work focuses on generating high-quality images with specific style of reference images and content of provided textual descriptions. Current leading algorithms, i.e., DreamBooth and LoRA, require fine-tuning for each style, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhouxia Wang , Xintao Wang , Liangbin Xie , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Wenping Wang , Ping Luo

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Tracking-free Relightable Avatar (TRAvatar), for capturing and reconstructing high-fidelity 3D avatars. Compared to previous methods, TRAvatar works in a more practical and efficient setting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Haotian Yang , Mingwu Zheng , Wanquan Feng , Haibin Huang , Yu-Kun Lai , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Chongyang Ma

Customized image generation, which seeks to synthesize images with consistent characters, holds significant relevance for applications such as storytelling, portrait generation, and character design. However, previous approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yuhang Ma , Wenting Xu , Jiji Tang , Qinfeng Jin , Rongsheng Zhang , Zeng Zhao , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

Existing talking avatar methods typically adopt an image-to-video pipeline conditioned on a static reference image within the same scene as the target generation. This restricted, single-view perspective lacks sufficient temporal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zujin Guo , Zhenhui Ye , Yi Ren , Yuanming Li , Ce Chen , Zhibin Hong , Chen Change Loy

In the burgeoning field of AI-driven image generation, the quest for precision and relevance in response to textual prompts remains paramount. This paper introduces GPTDrawer, an innovative pipeline that leverages the generative prowess of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Kun Li , Xinwei Chen , Tianyou Song , Hansong Zhang , Wenzhe Zhang , Qing Shan

Current diffusion models for audio-driven avatar video generation struggle to synthesize long videos with natural audio synchronization and identity consistency. This paper presents StableAvatar, the first end-to-end video diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuyuan Tu , Yueming Pan , Yinming Huang , Xintong Han , Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent advances in generative visual models and neural radiance fields have greatly boosted 3D-aware image synthesis and stylization tasks. However, previous NeRF-based work is limited to single scene stylization, training a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Zichen Tang , Hongyu Yang

Dimension of the encoder output (i.e., the code layer) in an autoencoder is a key hyper-parameter for representing the input data in a proper space. This dimension must be carefully selected in order to guarantee the desired reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Pedram Fekri , Ali Akbar Safavi , Mehrdad Hosseini Zadeh , Peyman Setoodeh

The creation of 4D avatars (i.e., animated 3D avatars) from text description typically uses text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to synthesize 3D avatars in the canonical space and subsequently applies animation with target motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zenghao Chai , Chen Tang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli