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In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

Generating high-quality textures for 3D scenes is crucial for applications in interior design, gaming, and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR). Although recent advancements in 3D generative models have enhanced content creation, significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yunfan Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Zhiqi Shen , Guosheng Lin , Hao Wang , Nicolas Vun

We present a novel approach for generating animatable 3D-aware art avatars from a single image, with controllable facial expressions, head poses, and shoulder movements. Unlike previous reenactment methods, our approach utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shaoxu Li

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

Generating human videos from a single image while ensuring high visual quality and precise control is a challenging task, especially in complex scenarios involving multiple individuals and interactions with objects. Existing methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Yuwei Guo , Dahua Lin , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai

Our goal is to create a realistic 3D facial avatar with hair and accessories using only a text description. While this challenge has attracted significant recent interest, existing methods either lack realism, produce unrealistic shapes, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hao Zhang , Yao Feng , Peter Kulits , Yandong Wen , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

Recently, 3D content creation from text prompts has demonstrated remarkable progress by utilizing 2D and 3D diffusion models. While 3D diffusion models ensure great multi-view consistency, their ability to generate high-quality and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Fangfu Liu , Diankun Wu , Yi Wei , Yongming Rao , Yueqi Duan

In this work, we introduce a novel high-fidelity 3D head reconstruction method from a single portrait image, regardless of perspective, expression, or accessories. Despite significant efforts in adapting 2D generative models for novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jianfu Zhang , Yujie Gao , Jiahui Zhan , Wentao Wang , Yiyi Zhang , Haohua Zhao , Liqing Zhang

Recent advancements in 3D content generation from text or a single image struggle with limited high-quality 3D datasets and inconsistency from 2D multi-view generation. We introduce DiffSplat, a novel 3D generative framework that natively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Chenguo Lin , Panwang Pan , Bangbang Yang , Zeming Li , Yadong Mu

Producing expressive facial animations from static images is a challenging task. Prior methods relying on explicit geometric priors (e.g., facial landmarks or 3DMM) often suffer from artifacts in cross reenactment and struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Qiang Wang , Mengchao Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yonggang Qi , Mu Xu

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Kangjie Chen , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Reconstructing a complete 3D head from a single portrait remains challenging because existing methods still face a sharp quality-speed trade-off: high-fidelity pipelines often rely on multi-stage processing and per-subject optimization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yujie Gao , Yao Xiao , Xiangnan Zhu , Ya Li , Yiyi Zhang , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

Textured 3D morphing creates smooth and plausible interpolation sequences between two 3D objects, focusing on transitions in both shape and texture. This is important for creative applications like visual effects in filmmaking. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Songlin Yang , Yushi Lan , Honghua Chen , Xingang Pan

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Text-to-3D generation by distilling pretrained large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has shown great promise but still suffers from inconsistent 3D geometric structures (Janus problems) and severe artifacts. The aforementioned problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Baorui Ma , Haoge Deng , Junsheng Zhou , Yu-Shen Liu , Tiejun Huang , Xinlong Wang

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

Generating high-quality 3D objects from textual descriptions remains a challenging problem due to computational cost, the scarcity of 3D data, and complex 3D representations. We introduce Geometry Image Diffusion (GIMDiffusion), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Slava Elizarov , Ciara Rowles , Simon Donné

We study the problem of 3D-aware full-body human generation, aiming at creating animatable human avatars with high-quality textures and geometries. Generally, two challenges remain in this field: i) existing methods struggle to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xuanmeng Zhang , Jianfeng Zhang , Rohan Chacko , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Yi Yang , Jiashi Feng

Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shengqu Cai , Duygu Ceylan , Matheus Gadelha , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Tuanfeng Yang Wang , Gordon Wetzstein

Despite much progress, achieving real-time high-fidelity head avatar animation is still difficult and existing methods have to trade-off between speed and quality. 3DMM based methods often fail to model non-facial structures such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhongyuan Zhao , Zhenyu Bao , Qing Li , Guoping Qiu , Kanglin Liu