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In recent years, 3D generation has made great strides in both academia and industry. However, generating 3D scenes from a single RGB image remains a significant challenge, as current approaches often struggle to ensure both object…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiang Tang , Ruotong Li , Xiaopeng Fan

High-quality textures are critical for realistic 3D content creation, yet existing generative methods are slow, rely on UV maps, and often fail to remain faithful to a reference image. To address these challenges, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Arianna Rampini , Kanika Madan , Bruno Roy , AmirHossein Zamani , Derek Cheung

Designing visually diverse and high-quality designs remains a manual, time-consuming process, limiting scalability and personalization in creative workflows. We present a system for generating editable design variations using a decoder-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Karthik Suresh , Amine Ben Khalifa , Li Zhang , Wei-ting Hsu , Fangzheng Wu , Vinay More , Asim Kadav

Random graph models are frequently used as a controllable and versatile data source for experimental campaigns in various research fields. Generating such data-sets at scale is a non-trivial task as it requires design decisions typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Manuel Penschuck , Ulrik Brandes , Michael Hamann , Sebastian Lamm , Ulrich Meyer , Ilya Safro , Peter Sanders , Christian Schulz

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

In this paper, we propose a novel controllable text-to-image generative adversarial network (ControlGAN), which can effectively synthesise high-quality images and also control parts of the image generation according to natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bowen Li , Xiaojuan Qi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Philip H. S. Torr

Image generation from a single image using generative adversarial networks is quite interesting due to the realism of generated images. However, recent approaches need improvement for such realistic and diverse image generation, when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Sutharsan Mahendren , Chamira Edussooriya , Ranga Rodrigo

Recent work has shown the ability to learn generative models for 3D shapes from only unstructured 2D images. However, training such models requires differentiating through the rasterization step of the rendering process, therefore past work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sebastian Lunz , Yingzhen Li , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Nate Kushman

Recent advances in generative visual models and neural radiance fields have greatly boosted 3D-aware image synthesis and stylization tasks. However, previous NeRF-based work is limited to single scene stylization, training a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Zichen Tang , Hongyu Yang

Recently, multiple formulations of vision problems as probabilistic inversions of generative models based on computer graphics have been proposed. However, applications to 3D perception from natural images have focused on low-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Tejas D. Kulkarni , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We study the problem of shape generation in 3D mesh representation from a small number of color images with or without camera poses. While many previous works learn to hallucinate the shape directly from priors, we adopt to further improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Chao Wen , Yinda Zhang , Chenjie Cao , Zhuwen Li , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

In this work, we introduce Unique3D, a novel image-to-3D framework for efficiently generating high-quality 3D meshes from single-view images, featuring state-of-the-art generation fidelity and strong generalizability. Previous methods based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kailu Wu , Fangfu Liu , Zhihan Cai , Runjie Yan , Hanyang Wang , Yating Hu , Yueqi Duan , Kaisheng Ma

Facial expression editing methods can be mainly categorized into two types based on their architectures: 2D-based and 3D-based methods. The former lacks 3D face modeling capabilities, making it difficult to edit 3D factors effectively. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yikang He , Jichao Zhang , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yao Zhao

Although manipulating facial attributes by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been remarkably successful recently, there are still some challenges in explicit control of features such as pose, expression, lighting, etc. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yuanming Li , Jeong-gi Kwak , David Han , Hanseok Ko

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the most widely used modeling approach for technical design. The typical starting point in these designs is 2D sketches which can later be extruded and combined to obtain complex three-dimensional assemblies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wamiq Reyaz Para , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Paul Guerrero , Tom Kelly , Niloy Mitra , Leonidas Guibas , Peter Wonka

Scaling artist-designed meshes to high triangle numbers remains challenging for autoregressive generative models. Existing transformer-based methods suffer from long-sequence bottlenecks and limited quantization resolution, primarily due to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rui Xu , Tianyang Xue , Qiujie Dong , Le Wan , Zhe Zhu , Peng Li , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Shiqing Xin , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Facial 3D Morphable Models are a main computer vision subject with countless applications and have been highly optimized in the last two decades. The tremendous improvements of deep generative networks have created various possibilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Stathis Galanakis , Baris Gecer , Alexandros Lattas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Human head detection, keypoint estimation, and 3D head model fitting are essential tasks with many applications. However, traditional real-world datasets often suffer from bias, privacy, and ethical concerns, and they have been recorded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Orest Kupyn , Eugene Khvedchenia , Christian Rupprecht

Recent advances in deep generative models have led to an unprecedented level of realism for synthetically generated images of humans. However, one of the remaining fundamental limitations of these models is the ability to flexibly control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sergey Prokudin , Michael J. Black , Javier Romero

Colorization of grayscale images has been a hot topic in computer vision. Previous research mainly focuses on producing a colored image to match the original one. However, since many colors share the same gray value, an input grayscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yun Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu