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The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

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

Reconstructing an interactive human avatar and the background from a monocular video of a dynamic human scene is highly challenging. In this work we adopt a strategy of point cloud decoupling and joint optimization to achieve the decoupled…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Da Li , Donggang Jia , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

Learning semantic attributes for person re-identification and description-based person search has gained increasing interest due to attributes' great potential as a pose and view-invariant representation. However, existing attribute-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Zhiyuan Shi , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

It is extremely challenging to create an animatable clothed human avatar from RGB videos, especially for loose clothes due to the difficulties in motion modeling. To address this problem, we introduce a novel representation on the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Tao Yu , Hongwen Zhang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

Multi-person pose estimation methods generally follow top-down and bottom-up paradigms, both of which can be considered as two-stage approaches thus leading to the high computation cost and low efficiency. Towards a compact and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yabo Xiao , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Guoli Wang , Qian Zhang , Mingshu He

Rigging and skinning clothed human avatars is a challenging task and traditionally requires a lot of manual work and expertise. Recent methods addressing it either generalize across different characters or focus on capturing the dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhouyingcheng Liao , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jian Shu , Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Junlong Ren , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

Estimating 3D full-body avatars from AR/VR devices is essential for creating immersive experiences in AR/VR applications. This task is challenging due to the limited input from Head Mounted Devices, which capture only sparse observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Han Feng , Wenchao Ma , Quankai Gao , Xianwei Zheng , Nan Xue , Huijuan Xu

The neural rendering of humans is a topic of great research significance. However, previous works mostly focus on achieving photorealistic details, neglecting the exploration of human parsing. Additionally, classical semantic work are all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jie Zhang , Pengcheng Shi , Zaiwang Gu , Yiyang Zhou , Zhi Wang

High-fidelity human 3D models can now be learned directly from videos, typically by combining a template-based surface model with neural representations. However, obtaining a template surface requires expensive multi-view capture systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Shih-Yang Su , Timur Bagautdinov , Helge Rhodin

No augmented application is possible without animated humanoid avatars. At the same time, generating human replicas from real-world monocular hand-held or robotic sensor setups is challenging due to the limited availability of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alessandro Sanvito , Andrea Ramazzina , Stefanie Walz , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

The field of image-to-video generation has made remarkable progress. However, challenges such as human limb twisting and facial distortion persist, especially when generating long videos or modeling intensive motions. Existing human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chang Liu , Mengting Chen , Yixuan Huang , Haoning Wu , Chen Ju , Shuai Xiao , Jinsong Lan , Yanfeng Wang

We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video. A parameterized body model is refined and optimized to maximally resemble subjects from a video showing them from all sides. Our avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

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

Despite much progress, achieving real-time high-fidelity head avatar animation is still difficult and existing methods have to trade-off between speed and quality. 3DMM based methods often fail to model non-facial structures such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhongyuan Zhao , Zhenyu Bao , Qing Li , Guoping Qiu , Kanglin Liu

Human pose transfer, as a misaligned image generation task, is very challenging. Existing methods cannot effectively utilize the input information, which often fail to preserve the style and shape of hair and clothes. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Jinsong Zhang , Xingzi Liu , Kun Li