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Efficiently modeling relightable human avatars from sparse-view videos is crucial for AR/VR applications. Current methods use neural implicit representations to capture dynamic geometry and reflectance, which incur high costs due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiacheng Wu , Ruiqi Zhang , Jie Chen , Hui Zhang

This paper tackles the challenge of creating relightable and animatable neural avatars from sparse-view (or even monocular) videos of dynamic humans under unknown illumination. Compared to studio environments, this setting is more practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xu , Sida Peng , Chen Geng , Linzhan Mou , Zihan Yan , Jiaming Sun , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D head avatars is crucial in various applications such as virtual reality. The pioneering methods reconstruct realistic head avatars with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which have been limited by training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Qingpo Wuwu , Xinyi Wang , Xingyu Xiao , Ming Lu

We introduce MeshLAM, a feed-forward framework for one-shot animatable mesh head reconstruction that generates high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from a single image. Unlike previous work that relies on time-consuming test-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yisheng He , Steven Hoi

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

Neural radiance fields are capable of reconstructing high-quality drivable human avatars but are expensive to train and render and not suitable for multi-human scenes with complex shadows. To reduce consumption, we propose Animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yang Liu , Xiang Huang , Minghan Qin , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

Real-time rendering of high-fidelity and animatable avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Over the past few years, the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has made significant progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qipeng Yan , Mingyang Sun , Lihua Zhang

We propose FlashAvatar, a novel and lightweight 3D animatable avatar representation that could reconstruct a digital avatar from a short monocular video sequence in minutes and render high-fidelity photo-realistic images at 300FPS on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jun Xiang , Xuan Gao , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Building photorealistic, animatable full-body digital humans remains a longstanding challenge in computer graphics and vision. Recent advances in animatable avatar modeling have largely progressed along two directions: improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

3D rendering of dynamic face captures is a challenging problem, and it demands improvements on several fronts$\unicode{x2014}$photorealism, efficiency, compatibility, and configurability. We present a novel representation that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ruofei Du , Stephan Garbin , Philip Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

We introduce a novel approach to creating ultra-realistic head avatars and rendering them in real-time (>30fps at $2048 \times 1334$ resolution). First, we propose a hybrid explicit representation that combines the advantages of two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongrui Cai , Yuting Xiao , Xuan Wang , Jiafei Li , Yudong Guo , Yanbo Fan , Shenghua Gao , Juyong Zhang

We propose Pulsar, an efficient sphere-based differentiable renderer that is orders of magnitude faster than competing techniques, modular, and easy-to-use due to its tight integration with PyTorch. Differentiable rendering is the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Christoph Lassner , Michael Zollhöfer

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Creating high-fidelity head avatars from multi-view videos is a core issue for many AR/VR applications. However, existing methods usually struggle to obtain high-quality renderings for all different head components simultaneously since they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Cong Wang , Di Kang , He-Yi Sun , Shen-Han Qian , Zi-Xuan Wang , Linchao Bao , Song-Hai Zhang

Creating realistic 3D facial animation is crucial for various applications in the movie production and gaming industry, especially with the burgeoning demand in the metaverse. However, prevalent methods such as blendshape-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Haoyu Wang , Haozhe Wu , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Kangjie Chen , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

With NeRF widely used for facial reenactment, recent methods can recover photo-realistic 3D head avatar from just a monocular video. Unfortunately, the training process of the NeRF-based methods is quite time-consuming, as MLP used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuelang Xu , Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We have recently seen great progress in building photorealistic animatable full-body codec avatars, but generating high-fidelity animation of clothing is still difficult. To address these difficulties, we propose a method to build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Donglai Xiang , Fabian Prada , Timur Bagautdinov , Weipeng Xu , Yuan Dong , He Wen , Jessica Hodgins , Chenglei Wu