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We introduce RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

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

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

We introduce X-Dyna, a novel zero-shot, diffusion-based pipeline for animating a single human image using facial expressions and body movements derived from a driving video, that generates realistic, context-aware dynamics for both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Di Chang , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Yipeng Gao , Zhengfei Kuang , Shengqu Cai , Chenxu Zhang , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Zeyuan Chen , Shijie Zhou , Linjie Luo , Gordon Wetzstein , Mohammad Soleymani

This paper proposes an efficient 3D avatar coding framework that leverages compact human priors and canonical-to-target transformation to enable high-quality 3D human avatar video compression at ultra-low bit rates. The framework begins by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Shanzhi Yin , Bolin Chen , Xinju Wu , Ru-Ling Liao , Jie Chen , Shiqi Wang , Yan Ye

Human emotions analysis has been the focus of many studies, especially in the field of Affective Computing, and is important for many applications, e.g. human-computer intelligent interaction, stress analysis, interactive games, animations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Luma Alharbawee , Giorgos Giannakakis , Nicolas Pugeault , Anastasios Roussos

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

We propose a novel representation of virtual humans for highly realistic real-time animation and rendering in 3D applications. We learn pose dependent appearance and geometry from highly accurate dynamic mesh sequences obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wieland Morgenstern , Milena T. Bagdasarian , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Parametric body models offer expressive 3D representation of humans across a wide range of poses, shapes, and facial expressions, typically derived by learning a basis over registered 3D meshes. However, existing human mesh modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jinhyung Park , Javier Romero , Shunsuke Saito , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yichen Xu , Federica Bogo , Shoou-I Yu , Kris Kitani , Rawal Khirodkar

We present LiftAvatar, a new paradigm that completes sparse monocular observations in kinematic space (e.g., facial expressions and head pose) and uses the completed signals to drive high-fidelity avatar animation. LiftAvatar is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hualiang Wei , Shunran Jia , Jialun Liu , Wenhui Li

We present PrismAvatar: a 3D head avatar model which is designed specifically to enable real-time animation and rendering on resource-constrained edge devices, while still enjoying the benefits of neural volumetric rendering at training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Prashant Raina , Felix Taubner , Mathieu Tuli , Eu Wern Teh , Kevin Ferreira

Sparse volumetric reconstruction and rendering via 3D Gaussian splatting have recently enabled animatable 3D head avatars that are rendered under arbitrary viewpoints with impressive photorealism. Today, such photoreal avatars are seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Gengyan Li , Paulo Gotardo , Timo Bolkart , Stephan Garbin , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Abhimitra Meka , Alexandros Lattas , Thabo Beeler

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

Building photorealistic, animatable full-body digital humans remains a longstanding challenge in computer graphics and vision. Recent advances in animatable avatar modeling have largely progressed along two directions: improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann

Tremendous efforts have been made to learn animatable and photorealistic human avatars. Towards this end, both explicit and implicit 3D representations are heavily studied for a holistic modeling and capture of the whole human (e.g., body,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yao Feng , Weiyang Liu , Timo Bolkart , Jinlong Yang , Marc Pollefeys , Michael J. Black

Production-level workflows for producing convincing 3D dynamic human faces have long relied on an assortment of labor-intensive tools for geometry and texture generation, motion capture and rigging, and expression synthesis. Recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Longwen Zhang , Chuxiao Zeng , Qixuan Zhang , Hongyang Lin , Ruixiang Cao , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

3D video avatars can empower virtual communications by providing compression, privacy, entertainment, and a sense of presence in AR/VR. Best 3D photo-realistic AR/VR avatars driven by video, that can minimize uncanny effects, rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Lele Chen , Chen Cao , Fernando De la Torre , Jason Saragih , Chenliang Xu , Yaser Sheikh