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We present AvatarTex, a high-fidelity facial texture reconstruction framework capable of generating both stylized and photorealistic textures from a single image. Existing methods struggle with stylized avatars due to the lack of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuda Qiu , Zitong Xiao , Yiwei Zuo , Zisheng Ye , Weikai Chen , Xiaoguang Han

In order to be widely applicable, speech-driven 3D head avatars must articulate their lips in accordance with speech, while also conveying the appropriate emotions with dynamically changing facial expressions. The key problem is that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Radek Daněček , Carolin Schmitt , Senya Polikovsky , Michael J. Black

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

Recent CLIP-guided 3D optimization methods, such as DreamFields and PureCLIPNeRF, have achieved impressive results in zero-shot text-to-3D synthesis. However, due to scratch training and random initialization without prior knowledge, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jiale Xu , Xintao Wang , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Shenghua Gao

Pose and body shape editing in a human image has received increasing attention. However, current methods often struggle with dataset biases and deteriorate realism and the person's identity when users make large edits. We propose a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Yuta Okuyama , Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

As the digital and physical worlds become more intertwined, there has been a lot of interest in digital avatars that closely resemble their real-world counterparts. Current digitization methods used in 3D production pipelines require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Wang , Ivan Molodetskikh , Ondrej Texler , Dimitar Dinev

Diffusion models have shown great promise for image generation, beating GANs in terms of generation diversity, with comparable image quality. However, their application to 3D shapes has been limited to point or voxel representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Gimin Nam , Mariem Khlifi , Andrew Rodriguez , Alberto Tono , Linqi Zhou , Paul Guerrero

Diffusion Handles is a novel approach to enabling 3D object edits on diffusion images. We accomplish these edits using existing pre-trained diffusion models, and 2D image depth estimation, without any fine-tuning or 3D object retrieval. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Karran Pandey , Paul Guerrero , Matheus Gadelha , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Karan Singh , Niloy Mitra

In this paper, we rethink text-to-avatar generative models by proposing TeRA, a more efficient and effective framework than the previous SDS-based models and general large 3D generative models. Our approach employs a two-stage training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanwen Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Jiawei Zhang , Li Wang , Yifei Zeng , Xun Cao , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

Animatable head avatar generation typically requires extensive data for training. To reduce the data requirements, a natural solution is to leverage existing data-free static avatar generation methods, such as pre-trained diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zhenglin Zhou , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Tat-Seng Chua

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

We introduce TADA, a simple-yet-effective approach that takes textual descriptions and produces expressive 3D avatars with high-quality geometry and lifelike textures, that can be animated and rendered with traditional graphics pipelines.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tingting Liao , Hongwei Yi , Yuliang Xiu , Jiaxaing Tang , Yangyi Huang , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

Estimating 3D articulated shapes like animal bodies from monocular images is inherently challenging due to the ambiguities of camera viewpoint, pose, texture, lighting, etc. We propose ARTIC3D, a self-supervised framework to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chun-Han Yao , Amit Raj , Wei-Chih Hung , Yuanzhen Li , Michael Rubinstein , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

Text-driven avatar generation has gained significant attention owing to its convenience. However, existing methods typically model the human body with all garments as a single 3D model, limiting its usability, such as clothing replacement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jingyu Zhuang , Di Kang , Linchao Bao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

We present Text2Tex, a novel method for generating high-quality textures for 3D meshes from the given text prompts. Our method incorporates inpainting into a pre-trained depth-aware image diffusion model to progressively synthesize high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Dave Zhenyu Chen , Yawar Siddiqui , Hsin-Ying Lee , Sergey Tulyakov , Matthias Nießner

We present GenLCA, a diffusion-based generative model for generating and editing photorealistic full-body avatars from text and image inputs. The generated avatars are faithful to the inputs, while supporting high-fidelity facial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yiqian Wu , Rawal Khirodkar , Egor Zakharov , Timur Bagautdinov , Lei Xiao , Zhaoen Su , Shunsuke Saito , Xiaogang Jin , Junxuan Li

Despite significant advances in modeling image priors via diffusion models, 3D-aware image editing remains challenging, in part because the object is only specified via a single image. To tackle this challenge, we propose 3D-Fixup, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yen-Chi Cheng , Krishna Kumar Singh , Jae Shin Yoon , Alex Schwing , Liangyan Gui , Matheus Gadelha , Paul Guerrero , Nanxuan Zhao

In this paper, we investigate an open research task of generating controllable 3D textured shapes from the given textual descriptions. Previous works either require ground truth caption labeling or extensive optimization time. To resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jiacheng Wei , Hao Wang , Jiashi Feng , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap

Learning to generate textures for a novel 3D mesh given a collection of 3D meshes and real-world 2D images is an important problem with applications in various domains such as 3D simulation, augmented and virtual reality, gaming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Dharma KC , Clayton T. Morrison