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Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

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We propose a learning-based method to reconstruct the local terrain for locomotion with a mobile robot traversing urban environments. Using a stream of depth measurements from the onboard cameras and the robot's trajectory, the algorithm…

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In this paper we present a framework for the rendering of dynamic 3D virtual environments which can be integrated in the development of videogames. It includes methods to manage sounds and particle effects, paged static geometries, the…

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Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianan Li , Xiao Chen , Tao Huang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Current 4D generation methods have achieved noteworthy efficacy with the aid of advanced diffusion generative models. However, these methods lack multi-view spatial-temporal modeling and encounter challenges in integrating diverse prior…

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Recent work has shown improved lesion detectability and flexibility to reconstruction hyperparameters (e.g. scanner geometry or dose level) when PET images are reconstructed by leveraging pre-trained diffusion models. Such methods train a…

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Building 3D animatable head avatars from a single image is an important yet challenging problem. Existing methods generally collapse under large camera pose variations, compromising the realism of 3D avatars. In this work, we propose a new…

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We introduce a novel, data-driven approach for reconstructing temporally coherent 3D motion from unstructured and potentially partial observations of non-rigidly deforming shapes. Our goal is to achieve high-fidelity motion reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aymen Merrouche , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

Existing automatic approaches for 3D virtual character motion synthesis supporting scene interactions do not generalise well to new objects outside training distributions, even when trained on extensive motion capture datasets with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Wanyue Zhang , Rishabh Dabral , Thomas Leimkühler , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

We present a learning-based method for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes using only unstructured collections of in-the-wild photographs. We build on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which uses the weights of a multilayer perceptron…

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In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Alexey Kotcov , Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Sausar Karaf , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

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We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

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We use neural radiance fields (NeRFs) to build interactive 3D environments from large-scale visual captures spanning buildings or even multiple city blocks collected primarily from drones. In contrast to single object scenes (on which NeRFs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Haithem Turki , Deva Ramanan , Mahadev Satyanarayanan

We introduce InseRF, a novel method for generative object insertion in the NeRF reconstructions of 3D scenes. Based on a user-provided textual description and a 2D bounding box in a reference viewpoint, InseRF generates new objects in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Mohamad Shahbazi , Liesbeth Claessens , Michael Niemeyer , Edo Collins , Alessio Tonioni , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

We are witnessing an explosion of neural implicit representations in computer vision and graphics. Their applicability has recently expanded beyond tasks such as shape generation and image-based rendering to the fundamental problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiaming Sun , Xi Chen , Qianqian Wang , Zhengqi Li , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Xiaowei Zhou , Noah Snavely

There has been an increasing interest in 3D indoor navigation, where a robot in an environment moves to a target according to an instruction. To deploy a robot for navigation in the physical world, lots of training data is required to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Fengda Zhu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

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Automated animal behavior analysis relies on long-term, interpretable individual trajectories; however, multi-animal tracking in space science experimental videos remains highly challenging due to weak appearance cues, low-quality imaging,…

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