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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,…

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To integrate digital humans into everyday life, there is a strong demand for generating high-quality, fine-grained disentangled 3D avatars that support expressive animation and simulation capabilities, ideally from low-cost textual inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokun Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Hao Tang , Zili Yi , Jian Yang

Significant progress has been made for speech-driven 3D face animation, but most works focus on learning the motion of mesh/geometry, ignoring the impact of dynamic texture. In this work, we reveal that dynamic texture plays a key role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuanchen Li , Jianyu Wang , Yuhao Cheng , Yikun Zeng , Xingyu Ren , Wenhan Zhu , Weiming Zhao , Yichao Yan

We present Make-A-Texture, a new framework that efficiently synthesizes high-resolution texture maps from textual prompts for given 3D geometries. Our approach progressively generates textures that are consistent across multiple viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaoyu Xiang , Liat Sless Gorelik , Yuchen Fan , Omri Armstrong , Forrest Iandola , Yilei Li , Ita Lifshitz , Rakesh Ranjan

Multi-view volumetric rendering techniques have recently shown great potential in modeling and synthesizing high-quality head avatars. A common approach to capture full head dynamic performances is to track the underlying geometry using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Xingang Pan , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

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

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Text-to-3D is an emerging task that allows users to create 3D content with infinite possibilities. Existing works tackle the problem by optimizing a 3D representation with guidance from pre-trained diffusion models. An apparent drawback is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yiji Cheng , Fei Yin , Xiaoke Huang , Xintong Yu , Jiaxiang Liu , Shikun Feng , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

Generating high-quality 360-degree views of human heads from single-view images is essential for enabling accessible immersive telepresence applications and scalable personalized content creation. While cutting-edge methods for full head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yuming Gu , Phong Tran , Yujian Zheng , Hongyi Xu , Heyuan Li , Adilbek Karmanov , Hao Li

Generative models have enabled intuitive image creation and manipulation using natural language. In particular, diffusion models have recently shown remarkable results for natural image editing. In this work, we propose to apply diffusion…

We present TexFusion (Texture Diffusion), a new method to synthesize textures for given 3D geometries, using large-scale text-guided image diffusion models. In contrast to recent works that leverage 2D text-to-image diffusion models to…

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We present a diffusion-based video editing framework, namely DiffusionAtlas, which can achieve both frame consistency and high fidelity in editing video object appearance. Despite the success in image editing, diffusion models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shao-Yu Chang , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Tyng-Luh Liu

We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

We introduce SimAvatar, a framework designed to generate simulation-ready clothed 3D human avatars from a text prompt. Current text-driven human avatar generation methods either model hair, clothing, and the human body using a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xueting Li , Ye Yuan , Shalini De Mello , Gilles Daviet , Jonathan Leaf , Miles Macklin , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

In recent times, the generation of 3D assets from text prompts has shown impressive results. Both 2D and 3D diffusion models can help generate decent 3D objects based on prompts. 3D diffusion models have good 3D consistency, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Junjie Wang , Guanjun Wu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Qi Tian , Xinggang Wang

With the advent of depth-to-image diffusion models, text-guided generation, editing, and transfer of realistic textures are no longer difficult. However, due to the limitations of pre-trained diffusion models, they can only create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhibin Tang , Tiantong He

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

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