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Face reconstruction and tracking is a building block of numerous applications in AR/VR, human-machine interaction, as well as medical applications. Most of these applications rely on a metrically correct prediction of the shape, especially,…

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Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

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Human motion characteristics are used to monitor the progression of neurological diseases and mood disorders. Since perceptions of emotions are also interleaved with body posture and movements, emotion recognition from human gait can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Matthew Malek-Podjaski , Fani Deligianni

Methods: Our deep learning model, called AnatomyNet, segments OARs from head and neck CT images in an end-to-end fashion, receiving whole-volume HaN CT images as input and generating masks of all OARs of interest in one shot. AnatomyNet is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Wentao Zhu , Yufang Huang , Liang Zeng , Xuming Chen , Yong Liu , Zhen Qian , Nan Du , Wei Fan , Xiaohui Xie

Human activity understanding is of widespread interest in artificial intelligence and spans diverse applications like health care and behavior analysis. Although there have been advances in deep learning, it remains challenging. The object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yong-Lu Li , Xinpeng Liu , Xiaoqian Wu , Yizhuo Li , Zuoyu Qiu , Liang Xu , Yue Xu , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Humanoid robots show promise for complex whole-body tasks in unstructured environments. Although Human-Object Interaction (HOI) has advanced, most methods focus on fully actuated objects rigidly coupled to the robot, ignoring underactuated…

Over half a million individuals are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year worldwide. Radiotherapy is an important curative treatment for this disease, but it requires manual time consuming delineation of radio-sensitive organs at…

We focus on reconstructing high-fidelity radiance fields of human heads, capturing their animations over time, and synthesizing re-renderings from novel viewpoints at arbitrary time steps. To this end, we propose a new multi-view capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Tobias Kirschstein , Shenhan Qian , Simon Giebenhain , Tim Walter , Matthias Nießner

Humans build 3D understandings of the world through active object exploration, using jointly their senses of vision and touch. However, in 3D shape reconstruction, most recent progress has relied on static datasets of limited sensory data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Edward J. Smith , David Meger , Luis Pineda , Roberto Calandra , Jitendra Malik , Adriana Romero , Michal Drozdzal

We introduce HART, a unified framework for sparse-view human reconstruction. Given a small set of uncalibrated RGB images of a person as input, it outputs a watertight clothed mesh, the aligned SMPL-X body mesh, and a Gaussian-splat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xiyi Chen , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Taewon Kang , Sergey Prokudin , Ming Lin

Talking Head Generation (THG) has emerged as a transformative technology in computer vision, enabling the synthesis of realistic human faces synchronized with image, audio, text, or video inputs. This paper provides a comprehensive review…

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3D content creation is referred to as one of the most fundamental tasks of computer graphics. And many 3D modeling algorithms from 2D images or curves have been developed over the past several decades. Designers are allowed to align some…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhongping Ji , Xiao Qi , Yigang Wang , Gang Xu , Peng Du , Qing Wu

We introduce a teleoperation system that integrates a 5 DOF actuated neck, designed to replicate natural human head movements and perception. By enabling behaviors like peeking or tilting, the system provides operators with a more intuitive…

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People differ in how much they move their head versus their eyes when shifting gaze, yet such tendencies remain largely unexplored in HCI. We introduce head movement tendencies as a fundamental dimension of individual difference in VR and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jinghui Hu , Ludwig Sidenmark , Hock Siang Lee , Hans Gellersen

We propose a deep videorealistic 3D human character model displaying highly realistic shape, motion, and dynamic appearance learned in a new weakly supervised way from multi-view imagery. In contrast to previous work, our controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

The capture and animation of human hair are two of the major challenges in the creation of realistic avatars for the virtual reality. Both problems are highly challenging, because hair has complex geometry and appearance, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ziyan Wang , Giljoo Nam , Tuur Stuyck , Stephen Lombardi , Chen Cao , Jason Saragih , Michael Zollhoefer , Jessica Hodgins , Christoph Lassner

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

Most earlier researches on talking face generation have focused on the synchronization of lip motion and speech content. However, head pose and facial emotions are equally important characteristics of natural faces. While audio-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Changpeng Cai , Guinan Guo , Jiao Li , Junhao Su , Fei Shen , Chenghao He , Jing Xiao , Yuanxu Chen , Lei Dai , Feiyu Zhu

Human shape estimation is an important task for video editing, animation and fashion industry. Predicting 3D human body shape from natural images, however, is highly challenging due to factors such as variation in human bodies, clothing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Gül Varol , Duygu Ceylan , Bryan Russell , Jimei Yang , Ersin Yumer , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Most prior research in deep imitation learning has predominantly utilized fixed cameras for image input, which constrains task performance to the predefined field of view. However, enabling a robot to actively maneuver its neck can…

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