English
Related papers

Related papers: MUNCH: Modelling Unique 'N Controllable Heads

200 papers

Despite recent research advancements in reconstructing clothed humans from a single image, accurately restoring the "unseen regions" with high-level details remains an unsolved challenge that lacks attention. Existing methods often generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yangyi Huang , Hongwei Yi , Yuliang Xiu , Tingting Liao , Jiaxiang Tang , Deng Cai , Justus Thies

Realistic hair strand generation is crucial for applications like computer graphics and virtual reality. While diffusion models can generate hairstyles from text or images, these inputs lack precision and user-friendliness. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Na Zhang , Moran Li , Chengming Xu , Han Feng , Xiaobin Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Although much progress has been made recently in 3D face reconstruction, most previous work has been devoted to predicting accurate and fine-grained 3D shapes. In contrast, relatively little work has focused on generating high-fidelity face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Xiangnan Yin , Di Huang , Zehua Fu , Yunhong Wang , Liming Chen

Synthesizing photo-realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are generated using rendering algorithms such as rasterization or…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

We present DreamHuman, a method to generate realistic animatable 3D human avatar models solely from textual descriptions. Recent text-to-3D methods have made considerable strides in generation, but are still lacking in important aspects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Mihai Fieraru , Cristian Sminchisescu

As generative models become ubiquitous, there is a critical need for fine-grained control over the generation process. Yet, while controlled generation methods from prompting to fine-tuning proliferate, a fundamental question remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Emily Cheng , Carmen Amo Alonso , Federico Danieli , Arno Blaas , Luca Zappella , Pau Rodriguez , Xavier Suau

Despite rapid advances in computer graphics, creating high-quality photo-realistic virtual portraits is prohibitively expensive. Furthermore, the well-know ''uncanny valley'' effect in rendered portraits has a significant impact on the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Luyuan Wang , Yiqian Wu , Yongliang Yang , Chen Liu , Xiaogang Jin

Geometry- and appearance-controlled full-body human image generation is an interesting but challenging task. Existing solutions are either unconditional or dependent on coarse conditions (e.g., pose, text), thus lacking explicit geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Linzi Qu , Jiaxiang Shang , Hui Ye , Xiaoguang Han , Hongbo Fu

We present a new method for few-shot human motion transfer that achieves realistic human image generation with only a small number of appearance inputs. Despite recent advances in single person motion transfer, prior methods often require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhichao Huang , Xintong Han , Jia Xu , Tong Zhang

Graph generation is a crucial task in many fields, including network science and bioinformatics, as it enables the creation of synthetic graphs that mimic the properties of real-world networks for various applications. Graph Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Salvatore Romano , Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

Enabling photorealistic avatar animations in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) has been challenging because of the difficulty of obtaining ground truth state of faces. It is physically impossible to obtain synchronized images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shaojie Bai , Seunghyeon Seo , Yida Wang , Chenghui Li , Owen Wang , Te-Li Wang , Tianyang Ma , Jason Saragih , Shih-En Wei , Nojun Kwak , Hyung Jun Kim

Neural networks are often used to process information from image-based sensors to produce control actions. While they are effective for this task, the complex nature of neural networks makes their output difficult to verify and predict,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Sydney M. Katz , Anthony L. Corso , Christopher A. Strong , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The ability to generate highly realistic 2D images from mere text prompts has recently made huge progress in terms of speed and quality, thanks to the advent of image diffusion models. Naturally, the question arises if this can be also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Christina Tsalicoglou , Fabian Manhardt , Alessio Tonioni , Michael Niemeyer , Federico Tombari

In the past several decades, many attempts have been made to model synthetic realistic geometric data. The goal of such models is to generate plausible 3D geometries and textures. Perhaps the best known of its kind is the linear 3D…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ron Slossberg , Gil Shamai , Ron Kimmel

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 tackle a new problem: generating geometrically consistent multi-view scenes from a single freehand sketch. Freehand sketches are the most geometrically impoverished input one could offer a multi-view generator. They convey scene intent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ahmed Bourouis , Savas Ozkan , Andrea Maracani , Yi-Zhe Song , Mete Ozay

Object manipulation in images aims to not only edit the object's presentation but also gift objects with motion. Previous methods encountered challenges in concurrently handling static editing and dynamic generation, while also struggling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ruisi Zhao , Zechuan Zhang , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

We present a novel method for performing flexible, 3D-aware image content manipulation while enabling high-quality novel view synthesis. While NeRF-based approaches are effective for novel view synthesis, such models memorize the radiance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Verica Lazova , Vladimir Guzov , Kyle Olszewski , Sergey Tulyakov , Gerard Pons-Moll