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With NeRF widely used for facial reenactment, recent methods can recover photo-realistic 3D head avatar from just a monocular video. Unfortunately, the training process of the NeRF-based methods is quite time-consuming, as MLP used in the…

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Image-based volumetric humans using pixel-aligned features promise generalization to unseen poses and identities. Prior work leverages global spatial encodings and multi-view geometric consistency to reduce spatial ambiguity. However,…

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This paper presents a new axis-based shape representation scheme along with a matching framework to address the problem of generic shape recognition. The main idea is to define the relative spatial arrangement of local symmetry axes and…

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Generating high-quality, photorealistic textures for 3D human avatars remains a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision and multimedia field. However, real paired front and back images of human subjects are rarely available with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Mingxiao Tu , Shuchang Ye , Hoijoon Jung , Jinman Kim

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

Regression-based methods have recently shown promising results in reconstructing human meshes from monocular images. By directly mapping raw pixels to model parameters, these methods can produce parametric models in a feed-forward manner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hongwen Zhang , Yating Tian , Xinchi Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Yebin Liu , Limin Wang , Zhenan Sun

Monocular vertex-level human-scene contact prediction is a fundamental capability for interactive systems such as assistive monitoring, embodied AI, and rehabilitation analysis. In this work, we study this task jointly with single-image 3D…

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Recent communities have seen significant progress in building photo-realistic animatable avatars from sparse multi-view videos. However, current workflows struggle to render realistic garment dynamics for loose-fitting characters as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Beijia Chen , Yuefan Shen , Qing Shuai , Xiaowei Zhou , Kun Zhou , Youyi Zheng

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

We introduce a framework that automates the transformation of static anime illustrations into manipulatable 2.5D models. Current professional workflows require tedious manual segmentation and the artistic ``hallucination'' of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jian Lin , Chengze Li , Haoyun Qin , Kwun Wang Chan , Yanghua Jin , Hanyuan Liu , Stephen Chun Wang Choy , Xueting Liu

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

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Recent methods for dynamic human reconstruction have attained promising reconstruction results. Most of these methods rely only on RGB color supervision without considering explicit geometric constraints. This leads to existing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Junhui Yin , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Xuqian Ren , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo , Yifan Liu

We present TexMesh, a novel approach to reconstruct detailed human meshes with high-resolution full-body texture from RGB-D video. TexMesh enables high quality free-viewpoint rendering of humans. Given the RGB frames, the captured…

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In this paper we predict a full 3D avatar of a person from a single image. We infer texture and geometry in the UV-space of the SMPL model using an image-to-image translation method. Given partial texture and segmentation layout maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Verica Lazova , Eldar Insafutdinov , Gerard Pons-Moll

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

There is a growing demand for the accessible creation of high-quality 3D avatars that are animatable and customizable. Although 3D morphable models provide intuitive control for editing and animation, and robustness for single-view face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Connor Z. Lin , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Eric R. Chan , Umar Iqbal , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sameh Khamis

We present a learning method for predicting animation skeletons for input 3D models of articulated characters. In contrast to previous approaches that fit pre-defined skeleton templates or predict fixed sets of joints, our method produces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Zhan Xu , Yang Zhou , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Karan Singh

We study the problem of 3D-aware full-body human generation, aiming at creating animatable human avatars with high-quality textures and geometries. Generally, two challenges remain in this field: i) existing methods struggle to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xuanmeng Zhang , Jianfeng Zhang , Rohan Chacko , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Yi Yang , Jiashi Feng