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Efficiently digitizing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from videos is a challenging and active research topic. Recent volume rendering-based neural representations open a new way for human digitization with their friendly usability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoke Huang , Yiji Cheng , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Reconstructing a dynamic human with loose clothing is an important but difficult task. To address this challenge, we propose a method named DLCA-Recon to create human avatars from monocular videos. The distance from loose clothing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chunjie Luo , Fei Luo , Yusen Wang , Enxu Zhao , Chunxia Xiao

We propose a deep videorealistic 3D human character model displaying highly realistic shape, motion, and dynamic appearance learned in a new weakly supervised way from multi-view imagery. In contrast to previous work, our controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

While methods that regress 3D human meshes from images have progressed rapidly, the estimated body shapes often do not capture the true human shape. This is problematic since, for many applications, accurate body shape is as important as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Vasileios Choutas , Lea Muller , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Siyu Tang , Dimitrios Tzionas , Michael J. Black

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

We present Better Together, a method that simultaneously solves the human pose estimation problem while reconstructing a photorealistic 3D human avatar from multi-view videos. While prior art usually solves these problems separately, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Arthur Moreau , Mohammed Brahimi , Richard Shaw , Athanasios Papaioannou , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Animatable 3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem due to the ambiguity in decoupling geometry, appearance, and deformation. Recent advances in 3D human reconstruction mainly focus on static human modeling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Lingteng Qiu , Xiaodong Gu , Peihao Li , Qi Zuo , Weichao Shen , Junfei Zhang , Kejie Qiu , Weihao Yuan , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo

While there has been significant progress in the field of 3D avatar creation from visual observations, modeling physically plausible dynamics of humans with loose garments remains a challenging problem. Although a few existing works address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Changmin Lee , Jihyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

High-quality 3D garment reconstruction plays a crucial role in mitigating the sim-to-real gap in applications such as digital avatars, virtual try-on and robotic manipulation. However, existing garment reconstruction methods typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ming Li , Hui Shan , Kai Zheng , Chentao Shen , Siyu Liu , Yanwei Fu , Zhen Chen , Xiangru Huang

This paper presents a method that can quickly adapt dynamic 3D avatars to arbitrary text descriptions of novel styles. Among existing approaches for avatar stylization, direct optimization methods can produce excellent results for arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Gabriel Schwartz , Yuting Ye , Stephen Lombardi , Lei Xiao

We present a novel method for reconstructing personalized 3D human avatars with realistic animation from only a few images. Due to the large variations in body shapes, poses, and cloth types, existing methods mostly require hours of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rong Wang , Fabian Prada , Ziyan Wang , Zhongshi Jiang , Chengxiang Yin , Junxuan Li , Shunsuke Saito , Igor Santesteban , Javier Romero , Rohan Joshi , Hongdong Li , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Creating animatable avatars from static scans requires the modeling of clothing deformations in different poses. Existing learning-based methods typically add pose-dependent deformations upon a minimally-clothed mesh template or a learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hongwen Zhang , Siyou Lin , Ruizhi Shao , Yuxiang Zhang , Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

Creating and customizing a 3D clothed avatar from textual descriptions is a critical and challenging task. Traditional methods often treat the human body and clothing as inseparable, limiting users' ability to freely mix and match garments.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jia Gong , Shenyu Ji , Lin Geng Foo , Kang Chen , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Lightweight creation of 3D digital avatars is a highly desirable but challenging task. With only sparse videos of a person under unknown illumination, we propose a method to create relightable and animatable neural avatars, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenbin Lin , Chengwei Zheng , Jun-Hai Yong , Feng Xu

Current methods for learning realistic and animatable 3D clothed avatars need either posed 3D scans or 2D images with carefully controlled user poses. In contrast, our goal is to learn an avatar from only 2D images of people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yuliang Xiu , Jinlong Yang , Dimitrios Tzionas , Michael J. Black

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

We introduce Structured 3D Features, a model based on a novel implicit 3D representation that pools pixel-aligned image features onto dense 3D points sampled from a parametric, statistical human mesh surface. The 3D points have associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Enric Corona , Mihai Zanfir , Thiemo Alldieck , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Andrei Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

It is extremely challenging to create an animatable clothed human avatar from RGB videos, especially for loose clothes due to the difficulties in motion modeling. To address this problem, we introduce a novel representation on the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Tao Yu , Hongwen Zhang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges