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We formulate the motor system of an interactive avatar as a generative motion model that can drive the body to move through 3D space in a perpetual, realistic, controllable, and responsive manner. Although human motion generation has been…

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We present a system to recover the 3D shape and motion of a wide variety of quadrupeds from video. The system comprises a machine learning front-end which predicts candidate 2D joint positions, a discrete optimization which finds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Benjamin Biggs , Thomas Roddick , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Roberto Cipolla

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Nerf-based Generative models have shown impressive capacity in generating high-quality images with consistent 3D geometry. Despite successful synthesis of fake identity images randomly sampled from latent space, adopting these models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yu Yin , Kamran Ghasedi , HsiangTao Wu , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong , Yun Fu

Current Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can generate photorealistic novel views. For editing 3D scenes represented by NeRF, with the advent of generative models, this paper proposes Inpaint4DNeRF to capitalize on state-of-the-art stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Han Jiang , Haosen Sun , Ruoxuan Li , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

While 2D occupancy maps commonly used in mobile robotics enable safe navigation in indoor environments, in order for robots to understand and interact with their environment and its inhabitants representing 3D geometry and semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Krishnananda Prabhu Sivananda , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

Visual repetition is ubiquitous in our world. It appears in human activity (sports, cooking), animal behavior (a bee's waggle dance), natural phenomena (leaves in the wind) and in urban environments (flashing lights). Estimating visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Tom F. H. Runia , Cees G. M. Snoek , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Can machines recording an audio-visual scene produce realistic, matching audio-visual experiences at novel positions and novel view directions? We answer it by studying a new task -- real-world audio-visual scene synthesis -- and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

We present an end-to-end system for the high-fidelity capture, model reconstruction, and real-time rendering of walkable spaces in virtual reality using neural radiance fields. To this end, we designed and built a custom multi-camera rig to…

The demand for efficient 3D model generation techniques has grown exponentially, as manual creation of 3D models is time-consuming and requires specialized expertise. While generative models have shown potential in creating 3D textured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Fanghua Yu , Xintao Wang , Zheyuan Li , Yan-Pei Cao , Ying Shan , Chao Dong

This paper addresses the challenge of novel-view synthesis and motion reconstruction of dynamic scenes from monocular video, which is critical for many robotic applications. Although Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuesong Li , Lars Petersson , Vivien Rolland

Understanding and modeling pedestrian movements in the real world is crucial for applications like motion forecasting and scene simulation. Many factors influence pedestrian movements, such as scene context, individual characteristics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zhizheng Liu , Joe Lin , Wayne Wu , Bolei Zhou

In this work we present a novel, robust transition generation technique that can serve as a new tool for 3D animators, based on adversarial recurrent neural networks. The system synthesizes high-quality motions that use temporally-sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Félix G. Harvey , Mike Yurick , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Virtual human animations have a wide range of applications in virtual and augmented reality. While automatic generation methods of animated virtual humans have been developed, assessing their quality remains challenging. Recently,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rim Rekik , Stefanie Wuhrer , Ludovic Hoyet , Katja Zibrek , Anne-Hélène Olivier

This paper aims to tackle the problem of modeling dynamic urban streets for autonomous driving scenes. Recent methods extend NeRF by incorporating tracked vehicle poses to animate vehicles, enabling photo-realistic view synthesis of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yunzhi Yan , Haotong Lin , Chenxu Zhou , Weijie Wang , Haiyang Sun , Kun Zhan , Xianpeng Lang , Xiaowei Zhou , Sida Peng

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have shown great potential in modeling 3D scenes. Dynamic NeRFs extend this model by capturing time-varying elements, typically using deformation fields. The existing dynamic NeRFs employ a similar Eulerian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ancheng Lin , Yusheng Xiang , Jun Li , Mukesh Prasad

Advances in 3D reconstruction have enabled high-quality 3D capture, but require a user to collect hundreds to thousands of images to create a 3D scene. We present CAT3D, a method for creating anything in 3D by simulating this real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Ruiqi Gao , Aleksander Holynski , Philipp Henzler , Arthur Brussee , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Pratul Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Poole

High-quality reconstruction of controllable 3D head avatars from 2D videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications in movies, games, and telepresence. Neural implicit fields provide a powerful representation to model 3D head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuhan Chen , Matthew O'Toole , Gaurav Bharaj , Pablo Garrido

Recent work has shown the possibility of training generative models of 3D content from 2D image collections on small datasets corresponding to a single object class, such as human faces, animal faces, or cars. However, these models struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Kyle Sargent , Jing Yu Koh , Han Zhang , Huiwen Chang , Charles Herrmann , Pratul Srinivasan , Jiajun Wu , Deqing Sun