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Unsupervised learning of 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs) using only collections of single-view 2D photographs has very recently made much progress. These 3D GANs, however, have not been demonstrated for human bodies and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Alexander W. Bergman , Petr Kellnhofer , Wang Yifan , Eric R. Chan , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tobias Kirschstein , Javier Romero , Artem Sevastopolsky , Matthias Nießner , Shunsuke Saito

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

High-fidelity head avatar reconstruction plays a crucial role in AR/VR, gaming, and multimedia content creation. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated effectiveness in modeling complex geometry with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shikun Zhang , Cunjian Chen , Yiqun Wang , Qiuhong Ke , Yong Li

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

This paper is on face/head reenactment where the goal is to transfer the facial pose (3D head orientation and expression) of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Stella Bounareli , Vasileios Argyriou , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

To make 3D human avatars widely available, we must be able to generate a variety of 3D virtual humans with varied identities and shapes in arbitrary poses. This task is challenging due to the diversity of clothed body shapes, their complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges

Face attribute editing aims to generate faces with one or multiple desired face attributes manipulated while other details are preserved. Unlike prior works such as GAN inversion, which has an expensive reverse mapping process, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Zhiliang Xu , Xiyu Yu , Zhibin Hong , Zhen Zhu , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Xiang Bai

Although manipulating facial attributes by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has been remarkably successful recently, there are still some challenges in explicit control of features such as pose, expression, lighting, etc. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yuanming Li , Jeong-gi Kwak , David Han , Hanseok Ko

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

To detect bias in face recognition networks, it can be useful to probe a network under test using samples in which only specific attributes vary in some controlled way. However, capturing a sufficiently large dataset with specific control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Nataniel Ruiz , Barry-John Theobald , Anurag Ranjan , Ahmed Hussein Abdelaziz , Nicholas Apostoloff

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

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

Facial recognition using deep convolutional neural networks relies on the availability of large datasets of face images. Many examples of identities are needed, and for each identity, a large variety of images are needed in order for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Richard T. Marriott , Sami Romdhani , Liming Chen

Editable 3D-aware generation, which supports user-interacted editing, has witnessed rapid development recently. However, existing editable 3D GANs either fail to achieve high-accuracy local editing or suffer from huge computational costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Fan Yang , Tianyi Chen , Xiaosheng He , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Si Wu , Guosheng Lin

This paper presents a generic face animator that is able to control the pose and expressions of a given face image. The animation is driven by human interpretable control signals consisting of head pose angles and the Action Unit (AU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Soumya Tripathy , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Photorealistic 3D head avatars are vital for telepresence, gaming, and VR. However, most methods focus solely on facial regions, ignoring natural hand-face interactions, such as a hand resting on the chin or fingers gently touching the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haonan He , Yufeng Zheng , Jie Song

We present a method that reconstructs and animates a 3D head avatar from a single-view portrait image. Existing methods either involve time-consuming optimization for a specific person with multiple images, or they struggle to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xueting Li , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal , Jan Kautz