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We introduce a novel co-design method for autonomous moving agents' shape attributes and locomotion by combining deep reinforcement learning and evolution with user control. Our main inspiration comes from evolution, which has led to wide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zhiquan Wang , Bedrich Benes , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Christos Mousas

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

We introduce a novel representation for efficient classical rendering of photorealistic 3D face avatars. Leveraging recent advances in radiance fields anchored to parametric face models, our approach achieves controllable volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ziqian Bai , Ruofei Du , Leonhard Helminger , Yinda Zhang , Stephan J. Garbin , Philip L. Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

Learning 3D shape representation with dense correspondence for deformable objects is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Existing approaches often need additional annotations of specific semantic domain, e.g., skeleton poses for human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Baowen Zhang , Jiahe Li , Xiaoming Deng , Yinda Zhang , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

We propose an interactive editing method that allows humans to help deep neural networks (DNNs) learn a latent space more consistent with human knowledge, thereby improving classification accuracy on indistinguishable ambiguous data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jiafu Wei , Ding Xia , Haoran Xie , Chia-Ming Chang , Chuntao Li , Xi Yang

Generative AI models provide a wide range of tools capable of performing complex tasks in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Among these, Large Language Models (LLMs) stand out for their ability to generate diverse texts, from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Baldomero R. Árbol , Dan Casas

Color and tone stylization strives to enhance unique themes with artistic color and tone adjustments. It has a broad range of applications from professional image postprocessing to photo sharing over social networks. Mainstream photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Feida Zhu , Yizhou Yu

We have recently seen tremendous progress in the neural advances for photo-real human modeling and rendering. However, it's still challenging to integrate them into an existing mesh-based pipeline for downstream applications. In this paper,…

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 propose a learning based method for generating new animations of a cartoon character given a few example images. Our method is designed to learn from a traditionally animated sequence, where each frame is drawn by an artist, and thus the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Omid Poursaeed , Vladimir G. Kim , Eli Shechtman , Jun Saito , Serge Belongie

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

Designing artificial cyber-agents able to interact with human safely, smartly and in a natural way is a current open problem in control. Solving such an issue will allow the design of cyber-agents capable of co-operatively interacting with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Maria Lombardi , Davide Liuzza , Mario di Bernardo

Existing convolution techniques in artificial neural networks suffer from huge computation complexity, while the biological neural network works in a much more powerful yet efficient way. Inspired by the biological plasticity of dendritic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Rongzhen Zhao , Zhenzhi Wu , Qikun Zhang

Parametric 3D models have enabled a wide variety of tasks in computer graphics and vision, such as modeling human bodies, faces, and hands. However, the construction of these parametric models is often tedious, as it requires heavy manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Pablo Palafox , Aljaž Božič , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

Detecting and segmenting human skin regions in digital images is an intensively explored topic of computer vision with a variety of approaches proposed over the years that have been found useful in numerous practical applications. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Patryk Kuban , Michal Kawulok

Effective human-AI collaboration hinges on the ability to dynamically integrate the complementary strengths of human experts and AI models across diverse decision contexts. Context-aware weighted combination of human and AI outputs is a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Renlong Jie

4D reconstruction and rendering of human activities is critical for immersive VR/AR experience.Recent advances still fail to recover fine geometry and texture results with the level of detail present in the input images from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Xin Suo , Yuheng Jiang , Pei Lin , Yingliang Zhang , Kaiwen Guo , Minye Wu , Lan Xu

Generating animatable and editable 3D head avatars is essential for various applications in computer vision and graphics. Traditional 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs), often using implicit fields like Neural Radiance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guohao Li , Hongyu Yang , Yifang Men , Di Huang , Weixin Li , Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang

During the last years, many advances have been made in tasks like3D model retrieval, 3D model classification, and 3D model segmentation.The typical 3D representations such as point clouds, voxels, and poly-gon meshes are mostly suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Arniel Labrada , Benjamin Bustos , Ivan Sipiran

Animating a newly designed character using motion capture (mocap) data is a long standing problem in computer animation. A key consideration is the skeletal structure that should correspond to the available mocap data, and the shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Peizhuo Li , Kfir Aberman , Rana Hanocka , Libin Liu , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Baoquan Chen