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This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular videos. While existing methods rely on combining per-subject optimization with generic human priors, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Gangjian Zhang , Jian Shu , Sicheng Yu , Wenhao Shen , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

The efficient reconstruction of high-quality and intuitively editable human avatars presents a pressing challenge in the field of computer vision. Recent advancements, such as 3DGS, have demonstrated impressive reconstruction efficiency and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Yichen Pan , Haiyao Xiao , Zhongmei Li , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen

We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance and dynamics of a human face. Digitally modeling and reconstructing a talking human is a key building-block for a variety of applications. Especially, for telepresence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guy Gafni , Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

We present a novel pipeline for learning high-quality triangular human avatars from multi-view videos. Recent methods for avatar learning are typically based on neural radiance fields (NeRF), which is not compatible with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yushuo Chen , Zerong Zheng , Zhe Li , Chao Xu , Yebin Liu

Recent advances in full-head reconstruction have been obtained by optimizing a neural field through differentiable surface or volume rendering to represent a single scene. While these techniques achieve an unprecedented accuracy, they take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Antonio Canela , Pol Caselles , Ibrar Malik , Eduard Ramon , Jaime García , Jordi Sánchez-Riera , Gil Triginer , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

We present the first approach to volumetric performance capture and novel-view rendering at real-time speed from monocular video, eliminating the need for expensive multi-view systems or cumbersome pre-acquisition of a personalized template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Ruilong Li , Yuliang Xiu , Shunsuke Saito , Zeng Huang , Kyle Olszewski , Hao Li

Multi-frame depth estimation improves over single-frame approaches by also leveraging geometric relationships between images via feature matching, in addition to learning appearance-based features. In this paper we revisit feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Dian Chen , Sergey Zakharov , Adrien Gaidon

Reconstructing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging due to insufficient geometric information in single-view observations. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinlong Fan , Bingyu Hu , Xingguang Li , Yuxiang Yang , Jing Zhang

We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video. A parameterized body model is refined and optimized to maximally resemble subjects from a video showing them from all sides. Our avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

We present Vid2Avatar, a method to learn human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Reconstructing humans that move naturally from monocular in-the-wild videos is difficult. Solving it requires accurately separating humans from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

Recently, the reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D head models from static portrait image has made great progress. However, most methods require multi-view or multi-illumination information, which therefore put forward high requirements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xueying Wang , Juyong Zhang

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

We present a novel framework to reconstruct human avatars from monocular videos. Recent approaches have struggled either to capture the fine-grained dynamic details from the input or to generate plausible details at novel viewpoints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yushuo Chen , Ruizhi Shao , Youxin Pang , Hongwen Zhang , Xinyi Wu , Rihui Wu , Yebin Liu

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang

We present a novel framework named NeuralRecon for real-time 3D scene reconstruction from a monocular video. Unlike previous methods that estimate single-view depth maps separately on each key-frame and fuse them later, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Jiaming Sun , Yiming Xie , Linghao Chen , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Head generation with diverse identities is an important task in computer vision and computer graphics, widely used in multimedia applications. However, current full head generation methods require a large number of 3D scans or multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Yuhao Cheng , Yichao Yan , Wenhan Zhu , Ye Pan , Bowen Pan , Xiaokang Yang