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Diffusion models currently achieve state-of-the-art performance for both conditional and unconditional image generation. However, so far, image diffusion models do not support tasks required for 3D understanding, such as view-consistent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Titas Anciukevičius , Zexiang Xu , Matthew Fisher , Paul Henderson , Hakan Bilen , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

Generating human videos from a single image while ensuring high visual quality and precise control is a challenging task, especially in complex scenarios involving multiple individuals and interactions with objects. Existing methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Yuwei Guo , Dahua Lin , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sumit Chaturvedi , Mengwei Ren , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Jingyuan Liu , Julie Dorsey , Zhixin Shu

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

Creating realistic 3D objects and clothed avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

The target duration of a synthesized human motion is a critical attribute that requires modeling control over the motion dynamics and style. Speeding up an action performance is not merely fast-forwarding it. However, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Alessio Sampieri , Alessio Palma , Indro Spinelli , Fabio Galasso

We present a new approach for synthesizing novel views of people in new poses. Our novel differentiable renderer enables the synthesis of highly realistic images from any viewpoint. Rather than operating over mesh-based structures, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Guillaume Rochette , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

Motion in-betweening, a fundamental task in character animation, consists of generating motion sequences that plausibly interpolate user-provided keyframe constraints. It has long been recognized as a labor-intensive and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Setareh Cohan , Guy Tevet , Daniele Reda , Xue Bin Peng , Michiel van de Panne

Monocular 3D human pose estimation poses significant challenges due to the inherent depth ambiguities that arise during the reprojection process from 2D to 3D. Conventional approaches that rely on estimating an over-fit projection matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Junkun Jiang , Jie Chen

From an image of a person in action, we can easily guess the 3D motion of the person in the immediate past and future. This is because we have a mental model of 3D human dynamics that we have acquired from observing visual sequences of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Angjoo Kanazawa , Jason Y. Zhang , Panna Felsen , Jitendra Malik

Generating a 3D human model from a single reference image is challenging because it requires inferring textures and geometries in invisible views while maintaining consistency with the reference image. Previous methods utilizing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jingbo Zhang , Xiaoyu Li , Qi Zhang , Yanpei Cao , Ying Shan , Jing Liao

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation encounters two significant challenges: (1) reliance on single-modal control signals (videos, text, or emotion labels) without leveraging their complementary strengths for comprehensive emotion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Kangwei Liu , Junwu Liu , Xiaowei Yi , Jinlin Guo , Yun Cao

3D human generation is an important problem with a wide range of applications in computer vision and graphics. Despite recent progress in generative AI such as diffusion models or rendering methods like Neural Radiance Fields or Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

The generation of stylistic 3D facial animations driven by speech presents a significant challenge as it requires learning a many-to-many mapping between speech, style, and the corresponding natural facial motion. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhiyao Sun , Tian Lv , Sheng Ye , Matthieu Lin , Jenny Sheng , Yu-Hui Wen , Minjing Yu , Yong-Jin Liu

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We introduce DreamControl, a novel methodology for learning autonomous whole-body humanoid skills. DreamControl leverages the strengths of diffusion models and Reinforcement Learning (RL): our core innovation is the use of a diffusion prior…

Speech-driven 3D facial animation plays a key role in applications such as virtual avatars, gaming, and digital content creation. While existing methods have made significant progress in achieving accurate lip synchronization and generating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yifang Pan , Karan Singh , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann

Generating novel views of a natural scene, e.g., every-day scenes both indoors and outdoors, from a single view is an under-explored problem, even though it is an organic extension to the object-centric novel view synthesis. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Wonbong Jang , Jonathan Tremblay , Lourdes Agapito

Image composition targets at synthesizing a realistic composite image from a pair of foreground and background images. Recently, generative composition methods are built on large pretrained diffusion models to generate composite images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Bo Zhang , Yuxuan Duan , Jun Lan , Yan Hong , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Li Niu