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Facial animation in virtual reality environments is essential for applications that necessitate clear visibility of the user's face and the ability to convey emotional signals. In our scenario, we animate the face of an operator who…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Andre Rochow , Max Schwarz , Sven Behnke

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Synthesizing photorealistic 4D human head avatars from videos is essential for VR/AR, telepresence, and video game applications. Although existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based methods achieve high-fidelity results, the computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hao-Bin Duan , Miao Wang , Jin-Chuan Shi , Xu-Chuan Chen , Yan-Pei Cao

Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video. In this paper we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexander Richard , Colin Lea , Shugao Ma , Juergen Gall , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

Avatar video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, prior work exhibits limited efficiency in generating long-duration high-resolution videos, suffering from temporal drifting, quality degradation, and…

The growing demand for high-fidelity video generation from textual descriptions has catalyzed significant research in this field. In this work, we introduce MagicVideo-V2 that integrates the text-to-image model, video motion generator,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Weimin Wang , Jiawei Liu , Zhijie Lin , Jiangqiao Yan , Shuo Chen , Chetwin Low , Tuyen Hoang , Jie Wu , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Daquan Zhou , Jiashi Feng

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

This paper introduces Video2MR, a mixed reality system that automatically generates 3D sports and exercise instructions from 2D videos. Mixed reality instructions have great potential for physical training, but existing works require…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Keiichi Ihara , Kyzyl Monteiro , Mehrad Faridan , Rubaiat Habib Kazi , Ryo Suzuki

With captivating visual effects, stylized 3D character animation has gained widespread use in cinematic production, advertising, social media, and the potential development of virtual reality (VR) non-player characters (NPCs). However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xinwu Ye , Jun-Hsiang Yao , Jielin Feng , Shuhong Mei , Xingyu Lan , Siming Chen

We present Vid2Avatar, a method to learn human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Reconstructing humans that move naturally from monocular in-the-wild videos is difficult. Solving it requires accurately separating humans from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

In this study, conversations between humans and avatars are linguistically, organizationally, and structurally analyzed, focusing on what is necessary for creating face-to-face multimodal interfaces for machines. We videorecorded…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-28 João Ranhel , Cacilda Vilela de Lima

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

When animation of a humanoid figure is to be generated at run-time, instead of by replaying pre-composed motion clips, some method is required of specifying the avatar's movements in a form from which the required motion data can be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Richard Kennaway

Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

We present MOFA-Video, an advanced controllable image animation method that generates video from the given image using various additional controllable signals (such as human landmarks reference, manual trajectories, and another even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Muyao Niu , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Yinqiang Zheng

To adequately utilize the available image evidence in multi-view video-based avatar modeling, we propose TexVocab, a novel avatar representation that constructs a texture vocabulary and associates body poses with texture maps for animation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yuxiao Liu , Zhe Li , Yebin Liu , Haoqian Wang

This paper aims to manipulate multi-entity 3D motions in video generation. Previous methods on controllable video generation primarily leverage 2D control signals to manipulate object motions and have achieved remarkable synthesis results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiao Fu , Xian Liu , Xintao Wang , Sida Peng , Menghan Xia , Xiaoyu Shi , Ziyang Yuan , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Dahua Lin

To address the ill-posed problem caused by partial observations in monocular human volumetric capture, we present AvatarCap, a novel framework that introduces animatable avatars into the capture pipeline for high-fidelity reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhe Li , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Chaonan Ji , Yebin Liu