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Incremental scene reconstruction is essential to the navigation in robotics. Most of the conventional methods typically make use of either TSDF (truncated signed distance functions) volume or neural networks to implicitly represent the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shaofan Liu , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

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

In this paper, we present WonderHuman to reconstruct dynamic human avatars from a monocular video for high-fidelity novel view synthesis. Previous dynamic human avatar reconstruction methods typically require the input video to have full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zilong Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Yuan Liu , Cheng Lin , Xiao Dong , Yunhui Guo , Chenxu Zhang , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Xiaohu Guo

Reconstructing personalized animatable head avatars has significant implications in the fields of AR/VR. Existing methods for achieving explicit face control of 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) typically rely on multi-view images or videos of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haoyu Ma , Tong Zhang , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

Reconstructing high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from effortlessly captured monocular videos is a pivotal yet formidable challenge. Although significant progress has been made in rendering performance and manipulation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiawei Zhang , Zijian Wu , Zhiyang Liang , Yicheng Gong , Dongfang Hu , Yao Yao , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Convenient 4D modeling of human-object interactions is essential for numerous applications. However, monocular tracking and rendering of complex interaction scenarios remain challenging. In this paper, we propose Instant-NVR, a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Yuheng Jiang , Kaixin Yao , Zhuo Su , Zhehao Shen , Haimin Luo , Lan Xu

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

Creating high-fidelity and editable head avatars is a pivotal challenge in computer vision and graphics, boosting many AR/VR applications. While recent advancements have achieved photorealistic renderings and plausible animation, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Heyi Sun , Cong Wang , Tian-Xing Xu , Jingwei Huang , Di Kang , Chunchao Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

Implicit neural representations have shown compelling results in offline 3D reconstruction and also recently demonstrated the potential for online SLAM systems. However, applying them to autonomous 3D reconstruction, where a robot is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yunlong Ran , Jing Zeng , Shibo He , Lincheng Li , Yingfeng Chen , Gimhee Lee , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

Recent advancements in learning techniques that employ coordinate-based neural representations have yielded remarkable results in multi-view 3D reconstruction tasks. However, these approaches often require a substantial number of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pol Caselles , Eduard Ramon , Jaime Garcia , Gil Triginer , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

The task of reconstructing detailed 3D human body models from images is interesting but challenging in computer vision due to the high freedom of human bodies. In order to tackle the problem, we propose a coarse-to-fine method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhongguo Li , Magnus Oskarsson , Anders Heyden

Constructing drivable and photorealistic 3D head avatars has become a central task in AR/XR, enabling immersive and expressive user experiences. With the emergence of high-fidelity and efficient representations such as 3D Gaussians, recent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jaeseong Lee , Junyeong Ahn , Taewoong Kang , Jaegul Choo

We propose an analysis-by-synthesis method for fast multi-view 3D reconstruction of opaque objects with arbitrary materials and illumination. State-of-the-art methods use both neural surface representations and neural rendering. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Markus Worchel , Rodrigo Diaz , Weiwen Hu , Oliver Schreer , Ingo Feldmann , Peter Eisert

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev

We introduce the \method, an ultra-efficient approach for monocular 3D object reconstruction. Splatter Image is based on Gaussian Splatting, which allows fast and high-quality reconstruction of 3D scenes from multiple images. We apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Stanislaw Szymanowicz , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Reconstructing animatable 3D humans from casually captured images of articulated subjects without camera or pose information is highly practical but remains challenging due to view misalignment, occlusions, and the absence of structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lingteng Qiu , Peihao Li , Heyuan Li , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Weihao Yuan , Rui Peng , Siyu Zhu , Xiaoguang Han , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

Recovering detailed facial geometry from a set of calibrated multi-view images is valuable for its wide range of applications. Traditional multi-view stereo (MVS) methods adopt an optimization-based scheme to regularize the matching cost.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yunze Xiao , Hao Zhu , Haotian Yang , Zhengyu Diao , Xiangju Lu , Xun Cao

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies