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We present the first method for real-time full body capture that estimates shape and motion of body and hands together with a dynamic 3D face model from a single color image. Our approach uses a new neural network architecture that exploits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Yuxiao Zhou , Marc Habermann , Ikhsanul Habibie , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt , Feng Xu

We present a method for generating a full 360{\deg} orbit video around a person from a single input image. Existing methods typically adapt image-based diffusion models for multi-view synthesis, but yield inconsistent results across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Keito Suzuki , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

Faithful real-time facial animation is essential for avatar-mediated telepresence in Virtual Reality (VR). To emulate authentic communication, avatar animation needs to be efficient and accurate: able to capture both extreme and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shaojie Bai , Te-Li Wang , Chenghui Li , Akshay Venkatesh , Tomas Simon , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Ryan Wrench , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh , Shih-En Wei

Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video. In this paper we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexander Richard , Colin Lea , Shugao Ma , Juergen Gall , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

High-fidelity digital human representations are increasingly in demand in the digital world, particularly for interactive telepresence, AR/VR, 3D graphics, and the rapidly evolving metaverse. Even though they work well in small spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zexu Huang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Siying Lu , Mingming Gong

We present a novel volumetric animation generation framework to create new types of animations from raw 3D surface or point cloud sequence of captured real performances. The framework considers as input time incoherent 3D observations of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Benjamin Allain , Li Wang , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Franck Hetroy , Edmond Boyer

Monocular 3D face reconstruction plays a crucial role in avatar generation, with significant demand in web-related applications such as generating virtual financial advisors in FinTech. Current reconstruction methods predominantly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Haoxin Xu , Zezheng Zhao , Yuxin Cao , Chunyu Chen , Hao Ge , Ziyao Liu

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

We propose PAV, Personalized Head Avatar for the synthesis of human faces under arbitrary viewpoints and facial expressions. PAV introduces a method that learns a dynamic deformable neural radiance field (NeRF), in particular from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Akin Caliskan , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Hyeongwoo Kim

Photorealistic and animatable human avatars are a key enabler for virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Cheng Peng , Jingxiang Sun , Yushuo Chen , Zhaoqi Su , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

We propose an approach for reconstructing free-moving object from a monocular RGB video. Most existing methods either assume scene prior, hand pose prior, object category pose prior, or rely on local optimization with multiple sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Haixin Shi , Yinlin Hu , Daniel Koguciuk , Juan-Ting Lin , Mathieu Salzmann , David Ferstl

We address the problem of recovering the 3D geometry of a human face from a set of facial images in multiple views. While recent studies have shown impressive progress in 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) based facial reconstruction, the settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Fanzi Wu , Linchao Bao , Yajing Chen , Yonggen Ling , Yibing Song , Songnan Li , King Ngi Ngan , Wei Liu

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

This paper presents Volumetric Transformer Pose estimator (VTP), the first 3D volumetric transformer framework for multi-view multi-person 3D human pose estimation. VTP aggregates features from 2D keypoints in all camera views and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuxing Chen , Renshu Gu , Ouhan Huang , Gangyong Jia

Monocular 3D clothed human reconstruction aims to create a complete 3D avatar from a single image. To tackle the human geometry lacking in one RGB image, current methods typically resort to a preceding model for an explicit geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Wenhao Shen , Jian Shu , Hao Wang

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

In this paper, we tackle the problem of 3D human shape estimation from single RGB images. While the recent progress in convolutional neural networks has allowed impressive results for 3D human pose estimation, estimating the full 3D shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Valentin Gabeur , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Xavier Martin , Cordelia Schmid , Gregory Rogez

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

Creating high-quality 3D avatars using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) from a monocular video benefits virtual reality and telecommunication applications. However, existing automatic methods exhibit artifacts under novel poses due to limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jotaro Sakamiya , I-Chao Shen , Jinsong Zhang , Mustafa Doga Dogan , Takeo Igarashi

High-fidelity reconstruction of head avatars from monocular videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications, but it remains a challenge in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a two-phase…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Pilseo Park , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu , Yiying Tong