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In many applications, including surveillance, entertainment, and restoration, there is a need to increase both the spatial resolution and the frame rate of a video sequence. The aim is to improve visual quality, refine details, and create a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Congrui Fu , Hui Yuan , Liquan Shen , Raouf Hamzaoui , Hao Zhang

3D head avatars built with neural implicit volumetric representations have achieved unprecedented levels of photorealism. However, the computational cost of these methods remains a significant barrier to their widespread adoption,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ziqian Bai , Feitong Tan , Sean Fanello , Rohit Pandey , Mingsong Dou , Shichen Liu , Ping Tan , Yinda Zhang

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Neural volume rendering enables photo-realistic renderings of a human performer in free-view, a critical task in immersive VR/AR applications. But the practice is severely limited by high computational costs in the rendering process. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yue Chen , Xuan Wang , Xingyu Chen , Qi Zhang , Xiaoyu Li , Yu Guo , Jue Wang , Fei Wang

NeRF provides unparalleled fidelity of novel view synthesis: rendering a 3D scene from an arbitrary viewpoint. NeRF requires training on a large number of views that fully cover a scene, which limits its applicability. While these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Pol Moreno , Adam R. Kosiorek , Heiko Strathmann , Daniel Zoran , Rosalia G. Schneider , Björn Winckler , Larisa Markeeva , Théophane Weber , Danilo J. Rezende

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) has gained tremendous popularity lately due to an ability to reinforce quality of its predictive model with generated objects and the quality of the generative model with and supervised feedback. GANs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Evgeny Zamyatin , Andrey Filchenkov

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently achieved impressive results for many real-world applications, and many GAN variants have emerged with improvements in sample quality and training stability. However, they have not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Hendrik Strobelt , Bolei Zhou , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , William T. Freeman , Antonio Torralba

Learning 3D generative models from a dataset of monocular images enables self-supervised 3D reasoning and controllable synthesis. State-of-the-art 3D generative models are GANs which use neural 3D volumetric representations for synthesis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Ayush Tewari , Mallikarjun B R , Xingang Pan , Ohad Fried , Maneesh Agrawala , Christian Theobalt

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

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu

3D city generation with NeRF-based methods shows promising generation results but is computationally inefficient. Recently 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a highly efficient alternative for object-level 3D generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Latent scene representation plays a significant role in training reinforcement learning (RL) agents. To obtain good latent vectors describing the scenes, recent works incorporate the 3D-aware latent-conditioned NeRF pipeline into scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jia Li , Jingkai Sun , Mingyuan Sun , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

We introduce the GANformer, a novel and efficient type of transformer, and explore it for the task of visual generative modeling. The network employs a bipartite structure that enables long-range interactions across the image, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Drew A. Hudson , C. Lawrence Zitnick

Text-to-3D generation is a valuable technology in virtual reality and digital content creation. While recent works have pushed the boundaries of text-to-3D generation, producing high-fidelity 3D objects with inefficient prompts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Wenqing Wang , Yun Fu

Manipulating facial expressions is a challenging task due to fine-grained shape changes produced by facial muscles and the lack of input-output pairs for supervised learning. Unlike previous methods using Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Rumeysa Bodur , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

Over the past few years, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have garnered increased interest among researchers in Computer Vision, with applications including, but not limited to, image generation, translation, imputation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Stylianos Moschoglou , Stylianos Ploumpis , Mihalis Nicolaou , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves impressive quality and rendering speed, but with millions of 3D Gaussians and significant storage and transmission costs. In this paper, we aim to develop a simple yet effective method called NeuralGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhenyu Tang , Chaoran Feng , Xinhua Cheng , Wangbo Yu , Junwu Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Wenping Wang , Li Yuan

3D generation from natural language offers significant potential to reduce expert manual modeling efforts and enhance accessibility to 3D assets. However, existing methods often yield unstructured meshes and exhibit poor interactivity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shuyuan Zhang , Chenhan Jiang , Zuoou Li , Jiankang Deng