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Reconstructing topologically consistent facial geometry is crucial for the digital avatar creation pipelines. Existing methods either require tedious manual efforts, lack generalization to in-the-wild data, or are constrained by the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xin Ming , Yuxuan Han , Tianyu Huang , Feng Xu

Creating a controllable and relightable digital avatar from multi-view video with fixed illumination is a very challenging problem since humans are highly articulated, creating pose-dependent appearance effects, and skin as well as clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Diogo Luvizon , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have made it possible to reconstruct and reanimate dynamic portrait scenes with control over head-pose, facial expressions and viewing direction. However, training such models assumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Zexiang Xu , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Dimitris Samaras

We present a novel approach that enables photo-realistic re-animation of portrait videos using only an input video. In contrast to existing approaches that are restricted to manipulations of facial expressions only, we are the first to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner , Patrick Pérez , Christian Richardt , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Theobalt

The problem of modeling an animatable 3D human head avatar under light-weight setups is of significant importance but has not been well solved. Existing 3D representations either perform well in the realism of portrait images synthesis or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaochen Zhao , Lizhen Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Hongwen Zhang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

We present a neural rendering framework that maps a voxelized scene into a high quality image. Highly-textured objects and scene element interactions are realistically rendered by our method, despite having a rough representation as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Konstantinos Rematas , Vittorio Ferrari

We present a novel pipeline for learning high-quality triangular human avatars from multi-view videos. Recent methods for avatar learning are typically based on neural radiance fields (NeRF), which is not compatible with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yushuo Chen , Zerong Zheng , Zhe Li , Chao Xu , Yebin Liu

Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the consistent visual patterns detected by conventional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhongrui Gui , Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

We present AvatarReX, a new method for learning NeRF-based full-body avatars from video data. The learnt avatar not only provides expressive control of the body, hands and the face together, but also supports real-time animation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zerong Zheng , Xiaochen Zhao , Hongwen Zhang , Boning Liu , Yebin Liu

We propose a method to build in real-time animated 3D head models using a consumer-grade RGB-D camera. Our proposed method is the first one to provide simultaneously comprehensive facial motion tracking and a detailed 3D model of the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Diego Thomas

Recent portrait animation methods have made significant strides in generating realistic lip synchronization. However, they often lack explicit control over head movements and facial expressions, and cannot produce videos from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yukang Lin , Hokit Fung , Jianjin Xu , Zeping Ren , Adela S. M. Lau , Guosheng Yin , Xiu Li

We present a 3D-aware one-shot head reenactment method based on a fully volumetric neural disentanglement framework for source appearance and driver expressions. Our method is real-time and produces high-fidelity and view-consistent output,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Phong Tran , Egor Zakharov , Long-Nhat Ho , Anh Tuan Tran , Liwen Hu , Hao Li

We propose TextToon, a method to generate a drivable toonified avatar. Given a short monocular video sequence and a written instruction about the avatar style, our model can generate a high-fidelity toonified avatar that can be driven in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Luchuan Song , Lele Chen , Celong Liu , Pinxin Liu , Chenliang Xu

We propose a new method for reconstructing controllable implicit 3D human models from sparse multi-view RGB videos. Our method defines the neural scene representation on the mesh surface points and signed distances from the surface of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Tianhan Xu , Yasuhiro Fujita , Eiichi Matsumoto

Avatar reconstruction has traditionally relied on per-subject optimization that requires hours of computation or on expensive preprocessing that limits scalability. We introduce FFAvatar, a generalizable feed-forward framework that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Jiahao Luo , Yinyu Nie , Hao Li , Gordon Guocheng Qian , Jian Wang

3D animation is central to modern visual media, yet traditional production pipelines remain labor-intensive, expertise-demanding, and computationally expensive. Recent AIGC-based approaches partially automate asset creation and rigging, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yupeng Zhu , Xiongzhen Zhang , Ye Chen , Bingbing Ni

We propose a neural rendering-based system that creates head avatars from a single photograph. Our approach models a person's appearance by decomposing it into two layers. The first layer is a pose-dependent coarse image that is synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Egor Zakharov , Aleksei Ivakhnenko , Aliaksandra Shysheya , Victor Lempitsky

This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aayam Shrestha , Pan Liu , German Ros , Kai Yuan , Alan Fern

Current advances in human head modeling allow the generation of plausible-looking 3D head models via neural representations, such as NeRFs and SDFs. Nevertheless, constructing complete high-fidelity head models with explicitly controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Artem Sevastopolsky , Philip-William Grassal , Simon Giebenhain , ShahRukh Athar , Luisa Verdoliva , Matthias Niessner