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This paper presents a simple yet powerful method for 3D human mesh reconstruction from a single RGB image. Most recently, the non-local interactions of the whole mesh vertices have been effectively estimated in the transformer while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jeonghwan Kim , Mi-Gyeong Gwon , Hyunwoo Park , Hyukmin Kwon , Gi-Mun Um , Wonjun Kim

We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

Inspired by the success of volumetric 3D pose estimation, some recent human mesh estimators propose to estimate 3D skeletons as intermediate representations, from which, the dense 3D meshes are regressed by exploiting the mesh topology.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiaoxuan Ma , Jiajun Su , Chunyu Wang , Wentao Zhu , Yizhou Wang

Advances in Deep Learning have recently made it possible to recover full 3D meshes of human poses from individual images. However, extension of this notion to videos for recovering temporally coherent poses still remains unexplored. A major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jian Liu , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Dynamic environments that include unstructured moving objects pose a hard problem for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) performance. The motion of rigid objects can be typically tracked by exploiting their texture and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Huayan Zhang , Tianwei Zhang , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

We introduce a new method that generates photo-realistic humans under novel views and poses given a monocular video as input. Despite the significant progress recently on this topic, with several methods exploring shared canonical neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tiantian Wang , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Tony Tung

4D reconstruction and rendering of human activities is critical for immersive VR/AR experience.Recent advances still fail to recover fine geometry and texture results with the level of detail present in the input images from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Xin Suo , Yuheng Jiang , Pei Lin , Yingliang Zhang , Kaiwen Guo , Minye Wu , Lan Xu

We aim to simultaneously estimate the 3D articulated pose and high fidelity volumetric occupancy of human performance, from multiple viewpoint video (MVV) with as few as two views. We use a multi-channel symmetric 3D convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Andrew Gilbert , Matthew Trumble , Adrian Hilton , John Collomosse

Reconstructing posed 3D human models from monocular images has important applications in the sports industry, including performance tracking, injury prevention and virtual training. In this work, we combine 3D human pose and shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Lorenza Prospero , Abdullah Hamdi , Joao F. Henriques , Christian Rupprecht

Virtual Reality (VR) applications have revolutionized user experiences by immersing individuals in interactive 3D environments. These environments find applications in numerous fields, including healthcare, education, or architecture. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Antoine Maiorca , Seyed Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh , Thierry Ravet , François Cresson , Thierry Dutoit , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Capturing and rendering life-like hair is particularly challenging due to its fine geometric structure, the complex physical interaction and its non-trivial visual appearance.Yet, hair is a critical component for believable avatars. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ziyan Wang , Giljoo Nam , Tuur Stuyck , Stephen Lombardi , Michael Zollhoefer , Jessica Hodgins , Christoph Lassner

Our work focuses on the development of a learnable neural representation of human pose for advanced AI assisted animation tooling. Specifically, we tackle the problem of constructing a full static human pose based on sparse and variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Boris N. Oreshkin , Florent Bocquelet , Félix G. Harvey , Bay Raitt , Dominic Laflamme

The 3D world limits the human body pose and the human body pose conveys information about the surrounding objects. Indeed, from a single image of a person placed in an indoor scene, we as humans are adept at resolving ambiguities of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhenzhen Weng , Serena Yeung

High-quality, animatable 3D human avatar reconstruction from monocular videos offers significant potential for reducing reliance on complex hardware, making it highly practical for applications in game development, augmented reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xia Yuan , Hai Yuan , Wenyi Ge , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Guanyu Xing

Despite the significant improvement in the performance of monocular pose estimation approaches and their ability to generalize to unseen environments, multi-view (MV) approaches are often lagging behind in terms of accuracy and are specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi , Nicolas Padoy

Human motion is fundamental to understanding behavior. Despite progress on single-image 3D pose and shape estimation, existing video-based state-of-the-art methods fail to produce accurate and natural motion sequences due to a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Muhammed Kocabas , Nikos Athanasiou , Michael J. Black

Vision-based monocular human pose estimation, as one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, aims to obtain posture of the human body from input images or video sequences. The recent developments of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Yucheng Chen , Yingli Tian , Mingyi He

Generative AI models provide a wide range of tools capable of performing complex tasks in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Among these, Large Language Models (LLMs) stand out for their ability to generate diverse texts, from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Baldomero R. Árbol , Dan Casas

To facilitate the analysis of human actions, interactions and emotions, we compute a 3D model of human body pose, hand pose, and facial expression from a single monocular image. To achieve this, we use thousands of 3D scans to train a new,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Georgios Pavlakos , Vasileios Choutas , Nima Ghorbani , Timo Bolkart , Ahmed A. A. Osman , Dimitrios Tzionas , Michael J. Black