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Reconstructing complete and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging, particularly under severe occlusions. While 3D Gaussian Splatting has enabled photorealistic human rendering, existing methods struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jinlong Fan , Shanshan Zhao , Liang Zheng , Jing Zhang , Yuxiang Yang , Mingming Gong

The idea of 3D reconstruction as scene understanding is foundational in computer vision. Reconstructing 3D scenes from 2D visual observations requires strong priors to disambiguate structure. Much work has been focused on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Peter Kulits , Michael J. Black , Silvia Zuffi

We introduce a novel framework for modeling high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars from motion-blurred monocular video inputs. Motion blur is prevalent in real-world dynamic video capture, especially due to human movements in 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Fan Yang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

This paper tackles the challenge of creating relightable and animatable neural avatars from sparse-view (or even monocular) videos of dynamic humans under unknown illumination. Compared to studio environments, this setting is more practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xu , Sida Peng , Chen Geng , Linzhan Mou , Zihan Yan , Jiaming Sun , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We propose SelfRecon, a clothed human body reconstruction method that combines implicit and explicit representations to recover space-time coherent geometries from a monocular self-rotating human video. Explicit methods require a predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Boyi Jiang , Yang Hong , Hujun Bao , Juyong Zhang

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Reconstructing an avatar from a portrait image has many applications in multimedia, but remains a challenging research problem. Extracting reflectance maps and geometry from one image is ill-posed: recovering geometry is a one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Abdallah Dib , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann , Emeline Got , Trevor Anderson , Amin Fadaeinejad , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Marc-Andre Carbonneau

The ability to create realistic, animatable and relightable head avatars from casual video sequences would open up wide ranging applications in communication and entertainment. Current methods either build on explicit 3D morphable meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yufeng Zheng , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

We present a novel pipeline for learning high-quality triangular human avatars from multi-view videos. Recent methods for avatar learning are typically based on neural radiance fields (NeRF), which is not compatible with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yushuo Chen , Zerong Zheng , Zhe Li , Chao Xu , Yebin Liu

Reconstructing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging due to insufficient geometric information in single-view observations. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinlong Fan , Bingyu Hu , Xingguang Li , Yuxiang Yang , Jing Zhang

Lightweight creation of 3D digital avatars is a highly desirable but challenging task. With only sparse videos of a person under unknown illumination, we propose a method to create relightable and animatable neural avatars, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenbin Lin , Chengwei Zheng , Jun-Hai Yong , Feng Xu

Monocular dynamic reconstruction is a challenging and long-standing vision problem due to the highly ill-posed nature of the task. Existing approaches depend on templates, are effective only in quasi-static scenes, or fail to model 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Qianqian Wang , Vickie Ye , Hang Gao , Weijia Zeng , Jake Austin , Zhengqi Li , Angjoo Kanazawa

Avatar modelling has broad applications in human animation and virtual try-ons. Recent advancements in this field have focused on high-quality and comprehensive human reconstruction but often overlook the separation of clothing from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingxuan Chen

In this paper, we consider a novel problem of reconstructing a 3D human avatar from multiple unconstrained frames, independent of assumptions on camera calibration, capture space, and constrained actions. The problem should be addressed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xiangyu Zhu , Tingting Liao , Jiangjing Lyu , Xiang Yan , Yunfeng Wang , Kan Guo , Qiong Cao , Stan Z. Li , Zhen Lei

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

We present a novel method to learn temporally consistent 3D reconstruction of clothed people from a monocular video. Recent methods for 3D human reconstruction from monocular video using volumetric, implicit or parametric human shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Adrian Hilton

Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct clothed humans. We introduce PhysAvatar, a novel…

While previous years have seen great progress in the 3D reconstruction of humans from monocular videos, few of the state-of-the-art methods are able to handle loose garments that exhibit large non-rigid surface deformations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Manuel Kaufmann , Chengwei Zheng , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Accurately reconstructing human behavior in close-interaction scenarios is crucial for enabling realistic virtual interactions in augmented reality, precise motion analysis in sports, and natural collaborative behavior in human-robot tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Qi Xia , Peishan Cong , Ziyi Wang , Yujing Sun , Qin Sun , Xinge Zhu , Mao Ye , Ruigang Yang , Yuexin Ma