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We propose RANA, a relightable and articulated neural avatar for the photorealistic synthesis of humans under arbitrary viewpoints, body poses, and lighting. We only require a short video clip of the person to create the avatar and assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Umar Iqbal , Akin Caliskan , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz

We propose pose-guided multiplane image (MPI) synthesis which can render an animatable character in real scenes with photorealistic quality. We use a portable camera rig to capture the multi-view images along with the driving signal for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hao Ouyang , Bo Zhang , Pan Zhang , Hao Yang , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen , Qifeng Chen , Fang Wen

Large-scale capture of human motion with diverse, complex scenes, while immensely useful, is often considered prohibitively costly. Meanwhile, human motion alone contains rich information about the scene they reside in and interact with.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sifan Ye , Yixing Wang , Jiaman Li , Dennis Park , C. Karen Liu , Huazhe Xu , Jiajun Wu

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Sida Peng , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

We present a method that enables synthesizing novel views and novel poses of arbitrary human performers from sparse multi-view images. A key ingredient of our method is a hybrid appearance blending module that combines the advantages of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Youngjoong Kwon , Dahun Kim , Duygu Ceylan , Henry Fuchs

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

Neural radiance fields enable novel-view synthesis and scene reconstruction with photorealistic quality from a few images, but require known and accurate camera poses. Conventional pose estimation algorithms fail on smooth or self-similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Axel Levy , Mark Matthews , Matan Sela , Gordon Wetzstein , Dmitry Lagun

In this work, we focus on synthesizing high-fidelity novel view images for arbitrary human performers, given a set of sparse multi-view images. It is a challenging task due to the large variation among articulated body poses and heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jianchuan Chen , Wentao Yi , Liqian Ma , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu

3D human reconstruction and animation are long-standing topics in computer graphics and vision. However, existing methods typically rely on sophisticated dense-view capture and/or time-consuming per-subject optimization procedures. To…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhiyuan Yu , Zhe Li , Hujun Bao , Can Yang , Xiaowei Zhou

3D animation of humans in action is quite challenging as it involves using a huge setup with several motion trackers all over the person's body to track the movements of every limb. This is time-consuming and may cause the person discomfort…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Laxman Kumarapu , Prerana Mukherjee

In recent years, diffusion models have revolutionized visual generation, outperforming traditional frameworks like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, generating images of humans with realistic semantic parts, such as hands and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Benzhi Wang , Jingkai Zhou , Jingqi Bai , Yang Yang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang , Zhen Lei

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

We present a novel approach for synthesizing photo-realistic images of people in arbitrary poses using generative adversarial learning. Given an input image of a person and a desired pose represented by a 2D skeleton, our model renders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Albert Pumarola , Antonio Agudo , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We propose a novel representation of virtual humans for highly realistic real-time animation and rendering in 3D applications. We learn pose dependent appearance and geometry from highly accurate dynamic mesh sequences obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wieland Morgenstern , Milena T. Bagdasarian , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

We present a first step towards 4D (3D and time) human video stylization, which addresses style transfer, novel view synthesis and human animation within a unified framework. While numerous video stylization methods have been developed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Tiantian Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Fangzhou Mu , Jian Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In this paper we focus on inserting a given human (specifically, a single image of a person) into a novel scene. Our method, which builds on top of Stable Diffusion, yields natural looking images while being highly controllable with text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Nikolai Warner , Jack Kolb , Meera Hahn , Vighnesh Birodkar , Jonathan Huang , Irfan Essa

Recent works on dynamic 3D neural field reconstruction assume the input from synchronized multi-view videos whose poses are known. The input constraints are often not satisfied in real-world setups, making the approach impractical. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Changwoon Choi , Jeongjun Kim , Geonho Cha , Minkwan Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Young Min Kim

The neural rendering of humans is a topic of great research significance. However, previous works mostly focus on achieving photorealistic details, neglecting the exploration of human parsing. Additionally, classical semantic work are all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jie Zhang , Pengcheng Shi , Zaiwang Gu , Yiyang Zhou , Zhi Wang

In this paper, we aim to address the challenge of novel view rendering of human performers who wear clothes with complex texture patterns using a sparse set of camera views. Although some recent works have achieved remarkable rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Tiansong Zhou , Jing Huang , Tao Yu , Ruizhi Shao , Kun Li

Facial expression synthesis has achieved remarkable advances with the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, GAN-based approaches mostly generate photo-realistic results as long as the testing data distribution is close…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Arbish Akram , Nazar Khan