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We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

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We introduce a new method that generates photo-realistic humans under novel views and poses given a monocular video as input. Despite the significant progress recently on this topic, with several methods exploring shared canonical neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Tiantian Wang , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Tony Tung

Despite recent progress in developing animatable full-body avatars, realistic modeling of clothing - one of the core aspects of human self-expression - remains an open challenge. State-of-the-art physical simulation methods can generate…

We present Relightable Holoported Characters (RHC), a novel person-specific method for free-view rendering and relighting of full-body and highly dynamic humans solely observed from sparse-view RGB videos at inference. In contrast to…

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We present animatable neural radiance fields (animatable NeRF) for detailed human avatar creation from monocular videos. Our approach extends neural radiance fields (NeRF) to the dynamic scenes with human movements via introducing explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jianchuan Chen , Ying Zhang , Di Kang , Xuefei Zhe , Linchao Bao , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu

This paper proposes a new end-to-end neural rendering architecture to transfer appearance and reenact human actors. Our method leverages a carefully designed graph convolutional network (GCN) to model the human body manifold structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thiago L. Gomes , Thiago M. Coutinho , Rafael Azevedo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

We present IntrinsicAvatar, a novel approach to recovering the intrinsic properties of clothed human avatars including geometry, albedo, material, and environment lighting from only monocular videos. Recent advancements in human-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shaofei Wang , Božidar Antić , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

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

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 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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a standard approach to reconstruct and render photorealistic 3D head avatars. A major challenge is to relight the avatars to match any scene illumination. For high quality relighting, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yingyan Xu , Pramod Rao , Sebastian Weiss , Gaspard Zoss , Markus Gross , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann , Derek Bradley

Reconstructing an avatar from a portrait image has many applications in multimedia, but remains a challenging research problem. Extracting reflectance maps and geometry from one image is ill-posed: recovering geometry is a one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Abdallah Dib , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann , Emeline Got , Trevor Anderson , Amin Fadaeinejad , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Marc-Andre Carbonneau

Mixed Reality (MR) headsets promise a future of immersive telepresence where virtual humans blend indistinguishably into real or virtual surroundings. Achieving this vision requires a method for capturing a user's motion, estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jianchun Chen , Yinda Zhang , Rohit Pandey , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can serve as powerful neural rendering engines that can be leveraged for inserting virtual objects into images. However, unlike typical physics-based renderers, these neural rendering engines are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Frédéric Fortier-Chouinard , Zitian Zhang , Louis-Etienne Messier , Mathieu Garon , Anand Bhattad , Jean-François Lalonde

We present a novel paradigm of building an animatable 3D human representation from a monocular video input, such that it can be rendered in any unseen poses and views. Our method is based on a dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) rigged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Gusi Te , Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Jinglu Wang , Wei Hu , Yan Lu

Face reenactment and portrait relighting are essential tasks in portrait editing, yet they are typically addressed independently, without much synergy. Most face reenactment methods prioritize motion control and multiview consistency, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yizhou Zhao , Chunjiang Liu , Haoyu Chen , Bhiksha Raj , Min Xu , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Mitch Rundle , HsiangTao Wu , Kamran Ghasedi

Pose-driven full-body avatars built on neural rendering produce high-quality novel views of a captured subject. Yet loose clothing and other dynamic elements deform in ways pose alone cannot explain: the same pose can correspond to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shichong Peng , Chengxiang Yin , Fei Jiang , Zhongshi Jiang , Lingchen Yang , Qingyang Tan , Amin Jourabloo , Jason Saragih , Ke Li , Christian Häne

Human re-rendering from a single image is a starkly under-constrained problem, and state-of-the-art algorithms often exhibit undesired artefacts, such as over-smoothing, unrealistic distortions of the body parts and garments, or implausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Dushyant Mehta , Weipeng Xu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

In this paper, we propose ARCH (Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humans), a novel end-to-end framework for accurate reconstruction of animation-ready 3D clothed humans from a monocular image. Existing approaches to digitize 3D humans…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zeng Huang , Yuanlu Xu , Christoph Lassner , Hao Li , Tony Tung

Creating photorealistic, animatable, and relightable 3D head avatars traditionally requires expensive Lightstage with multiple calibrated cameras, making it inaccessible for widespread adoption. To bridge this gap, we present a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pranav Manu , Astitva Srivastava , Amit Raj , Varun Jampani , Avinash Sharma , P. J. Narayanan