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In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

No augmented application is possible without animated humanoid avatars. At the same time, generating human replicas from real-world monocular hand-held or robotic sensor setups is challenging due to the limited availability of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alessandro Sanvito , Andrea Ramazzina , Stefanie Walz , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

While recent image-based human animation methods achieve realistic body and facial motion synthesis, critical gaps remain in fine-grained holistic controllability, multi-scale adaptability, and long-term temporal coherence, which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuxuan Luo , Zhengkun Rong , Lizhen Wang , Longhao Zhang , Tianshu Hu , Yongming Zhu

Editable 3D-aware generation, which supports user-interacted editing, has witnessed rapid development recently. However, existing editable 3D GANs either fail to achieve high-accuracy local editing or suffer from huge computational costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Fan Yang , Tianyi Chen , Xiaosheng He , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Si Wu , Guosheng Lin

Non-contact physiological measurement has the potential to provide low-cost, non-invasive health monitoring. However, machine vision approaches are often limited by the availability and diversity of annotated video datasets resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Daniel McDuff , Javier Hernandez , Erroll Wood , Xin Liu , Tadas Baltrusaitis

Inspired by the effectiveness of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in reconstructing detailed 3D scenes within multi-view setups and the emergence of large 2D human foundation models, we introduce Arc2Avatar, the first SDS-based method utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Dimitrios Gerogiannis , Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Alexandros Lattas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advancements in automatic 3D avatar generation guided by text have made significant progress. However, existing methods have limitations such as oversaturation and low-quality output. To address these challenges, we propose X-Oscar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yiwei Ma , Zhekai Lin , Jiayi Ji , Yijun Fan , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

We present EgoRenderer, a system for rendering full-body neural avatars of a person captured by a wearable, egocentric fisheye camera that is mounted on a cap or a VR headset. Our system renders photorealistic novel views of the actor and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Tao Hu , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Christian Theobalt

Current expressive avatar systems rely heavily on visual cues, failing when faces are occluded or when emotions remain internal. We present Mind-to-Face, the first framework that decodes non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haolin Xiong , Tianwen Fu , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Yunxuan Cai , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Hanyuan Xiao , Yajie Zhao

Current talking face generation methods mainly focus on speech-lip synchronization. However, insufficient investigation on the facial talking style leads to a lifeless and monotonous avatar. Most previous works fail to imitate expressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Liyang Chen , Zhiyong Wu , Runnan Li , Weihong Bao , Jun Ling , Xu Tan , Sheng Zhao

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

A vital task of the wider digital human effort is the creation of realistic garments on digital avatars, both in the form of characteristic fold patterns and wrinkles in static frames as well as richness of garment dynamics under avatars'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meng Zhang , Duygu Ceylan , Tuanfeng Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

It is extremely challenging to create an animatable clothed human avatar from RGB videos, especially for loose clothes due to the difficulties in motion modeling. To address this problem, we introduce a novel representation on the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Tao Yu , Hongwen Zhang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

The combination of traditional rendering with neural networks in Deferred Neural Rendering (DNR) provides a compelling balance between computational complexity and realism of the resulting images. Using skinned meshes for rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Amit Raj , Julian Tanke , James Hays , Minh Vo , Carsten Stoll , Christoph Lassner

We introduce AvatarBooth, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D avatars using text prompts or specific images. Unlike previous approaches that can only synthesize avatars based on simple text descriptions, our method enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yifei Zeng , Yuanxun Lu , Xinya Ji , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao

This paper presents a method that can quickly adapt dynamic 3D avatars to arbitrary text descriptions of novel styles. Among existing approaches for avatar stylization, direct optimization methods can produce excellent results for arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Gabriel Schwartz , Yuting Ye , Stephen Lombardi , Lei Xiao