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We have recently seen great progress in building photorealistic animatable full-body codec avatars, but generating high-fidelity animation of clothing is still difficult. To address these difficulties, we propose a method to build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Donglai Xiang , Fabian Prada , Timur Bagautdinov , Weipeng Xu , Yuan Dong , He Wen , Jessica Hodgins , Chenglei Wu

Realistic 3D full-body talking avatars hold great potential in AR, with applications ranging from e-commerce live streaming to holographic communication. Despite advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for lifelike avatar creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jianchuan Chen , Jingchuan Hu , Gaige Wang , Zhonghua Jiang , Tiansong Zhou , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

This study explores a streamlined facial data collection method for conversational contexts, addressing the limitations of existing approaches that often require extensive datasets and prioritize technical metrics over user perception and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seoyoung Kang , Seokhwan Yang , Hail Song , Boram Yoon , Jinwook Kim , Kangsoo Kim , Woontack Woo

With the rising interest from the community in digital avatars coupled with the importance of expressions and gestures in communication, modeling natural avatar behavior remains an important challenge across many industries such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Kefan Chen , Sergiu Oprea , Justin Theiss , Sreyas Mohan , Srinath Sridhar , Aayush Prakash

Recovering photorealistic and drivable full-body avatars is crucial for numerous applications, including virtual reality, 3D games, and tele-presence. Most methods, whether reconstruction or generation, require large numbers of human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Zhaolong Wang , Xiangru Lin , Zongqing Lu , Yuxi Zhao , Hanqing Wei , Jingrui Ye , Yu Zhang , Zhijing Shao

High-fidelity digital human representations are increasingly in demand in the digital world, particularly for interactive telepresence, AR/VR, 3D graphics, and the rapidly evolving metaverse. Even though they work well in small spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zexu Huang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Siying Lu , Mingming Gong

Photorealistic telepresence requires both high-fidelity body modeling and faithful driving to enable dynamically synthesized appearance that is indistinguishable from reality. In this work, we propose an end-to-end framework that addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Edoardo Remelli , Timur Bagautdinov , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Chenglei Wu , Shih-En Wei , Kaiwen Guo , Zhe Cao , Fabian Prada , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Recovering expressive humans from images is essential for understanding human behavior. Methods that estimate 3D bodies, faces, or hands have progressed significantly, yet separately. Face methods recover accurate 3D shape and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yao Feng , Vasileios Choutas , Timo Bolkart , Dimitrios Tzionas , Michael J. Black

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Reconstructing photo-realistic drivable human avatars from multi-view image sequences has been a popular and challenging topic in the field of computer vision and graphics. While existing NeRF-based methods can achieve high-quality novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Xiaoyu Li , Li Ma , Qi Zhang , Chaopeng Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Ying Shan

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

We present a novel method to learn Personalized Implicit Neural Avatars (PINA) from a short RGB-D sequence. This allows non-expert users to create a detailed and personalized virtual copy of themselves, which can be animated with realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Zijian Dong , Chen Guo , Jie Song , Xu Chen , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges

We present NBAvatar - a method for realistic rendering of head avatars handling non-rigid deformations caused by hand-face interaction. We introduce a novel representation for animated avatars by combining the training of oriented planar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Svitov , Mahtab Dahaghin

While progress in 2D generative models of human appearance has been rapid, many applications require 3D avatars that can be animated and rendered. Unfortunately, most existing methods for learning generative models of 3D humans with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zijian Dong , Xu Chen , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Andreas Geiger

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

We propose a novel neural rendering pipeline, Hybrid Volumetric-Textural Rendering (HVTR), which synthesizes virtual human avatars from arbitrary poses efficiently and at high quality. First, we learn to encode articulated human motions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Tao Hu , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , He Zhang , Yebin Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Current text-to-avatar methods often rely on implicit representations (e.g., NeRF, SDF, and DMTet), leading to 3D content that artists cannot easily edit and animate in graphics software. This paper introduces a novel framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Duotun Wang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Zhijing Shao , Qianxi Liu , Lin Wang , Mingming Fan , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

A human 3D avatar is one of the important elements in the metaverse, and the modeling effect directly affects people's visual experience. However, the human body has a complex topology and diverse details, so it is often expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mingyang Sun , Dingkang Yang , Dongliang Kou , Yang Jiang , Weihua Shan , Zhe Yan , Lihua Zhang

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu