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We present HRM$^2$Avatar, a framework for creating high-fidelity avatars from monocular phone scans, which can be rendered and animated in real time on mobile devices. Monocular capture with smartphones provides a low-cost alternative to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chao Shi , Shenghao Jia , Jinhui Liu , Yong Zhang , Liangchao Zhu , Zhonglei Yang , Jinze Ma , Chaoyue Niu , Chengfei Lv

In this paper, we present an end-to-end pipeline for the creation of high-quality animatable volumetric video content of human performances. Going beyond the application of free-viewpoint volumetric video, we allow re-animation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Anna Hilsmann , Philipp Fechteler , Wieland Morgenstern , Wolfgang Paier , Ingo Feldmann , Oliver Schreer , Peter Eisert

We present EgoRenderer, a system for rendering full-body neural avatars of a person captured by a wearable, egocentric fisheye camera that is mounted on a cap or a VR headset. Our system renders photorealistic novel views of the actor and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Tao Hu , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Matthias Zwicker , Christian Theobalt

Transferring human motion and appearance between videos of human actors remains one of the key challenges in Computer Vision. Despite the advances from recent image-to-image translation approaches, there are several transferring contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Rafael Azevedo , Guilherme Torres , Erickson R. Nascimento

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

While recent 3D head avatar creation methods attempt to animate facial dynamics, they often fail to capture personalized details, limiting realism and expressiveness. To fill this gap, we present DipGuava (Disentangled and Personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jeonghaeng Lee , Seok Keun Choi , Zhixuan Li , Weisi Lin , Sanghoon Lee

We present Better Together, a method that simultaneously solves the human pose estimation problem while reconstructing a photorealistic 3D human avatar from multi-view videos. While prior art usually solves these problems separately, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Arthur Moreau , Mohammed Brahimi , Richard Shaw , Athanasios Papaioannou , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

This paper describes how to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving. Based on a parametric body model, we present a robust processing pipeline achieving 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present a novel method to improve the accuracy of the 3D reconstruction of clothed human shape from a single image. Recent work has introduced volumetric, implicit and model-based shape learning frameworks for reconstruction of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Evren Imre , Adrian Hilton

In this paper, we propose Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian head Avatar (GAGAvatar) for one-shot animatable head avatar reconstruction. Existing methods rely on neural radiance fields, leading to heavy rendering consumption and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuangeng Chu , Tatsuya Harada

Creating a 360{\deg} parametric model of a human head is a very challenging task. While recent advancements have demonstrated the efficacy of leveraging synthetic data for building such parametric head models, their performance remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yuxiao He , Yiyu Zhuang , Yanwen Wang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Xiaoyu Li , Qi Zhang , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Reconstructing high-fidelity and animatable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging yet essential task. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting typically bind Gaussians to mesh triangles and model deformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jiankuo Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Zidu Wang , Zhen Lei

We introduce a novel representation for efficient classical rendering of photorealistic 3D face avatars. Leveraging recent advances in radiance fields anchored to parametric face models, our approach achieves controllable volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ziqian Bai , Ruofei Du , Leonhard Helminger , Yinda Zhang , Stephan J. Garbin , Philip L. Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

We present an approach to generate a 360-degree view of a person with a consistent, high-resolution appearance from a single input image. NeRF and its variants typically require videos or images from different viewpoints. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Badour AlBahar , Shunsuke Saito , Hung-Yu Tseng , Changil Kim , Johannes Kopf , Jia-Bin Huang

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

Avatar modelling has broad applications in human animation and virtual try-ons. Recent advancements in this field have focused on high-quality and comprehensive human reconstruction but often overlook the separation of clothing from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingxuan Chen

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

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

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

Real-time rendering and animation of humans is a core function in games, movies, and telepresence applications. Existing methods have a number of drawbacks we aim to address with our work. Triangle meshes have difficulty modeling thin…