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The rise of 3D anime-style avatars in gaming, virtual reality, and other digital media has driven significant interest in automated generation methods capable of capturing their distinctive visual characteristics. These include stylized…

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In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

Generating animatable and editable 3D head avatars is essential for various applications in computer vision and graphics. Traditional 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs), often using implicit fields like Neural Radiance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guohao Li , Hongyu Yang , Yifang Men , Di Huang , Weixin Li , Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang

2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enhance high-quality image manipulation. However, most methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xinya Ji , Gaspard Zoss , Prashanth Chandran , Lingchen Yang , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

We present a novel framework for generating photorealistic 3D human head and subsequently manipulating and reposing them with remarkable flexibility. The proposed approach leverages an implicit function representation of 3D human heads,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yushi Lan , Feitong Tan , Di Qiu , Qiangeng Xu , Kyle Genova , Zeng Huang , Sean Fanello , Rohit Pandey , Thomas Funkhouser , Chen Change Loy , Yinda Zhang

3D modeling has long been an important area in computer vision and computer graphics. Recently, thanks to the breakthroughs in neural representations and generative models, we witnessed a rapid development of 3D modeling. 3D human modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ruihe Wang , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

We present TextureDreamer, a novel image-guided texture synthesis method to transfer relightable textures from a small number of input images (3 to 5) to target 3D shapes across arbitrary categories. Texture creation is a pivotal challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yu-Ying Yeh , Jia-Bin Huang , Changil Kim , Lei Xiao , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Numair Khan , Cheng Zhang , Manmohan Chandraker , Carl S Marshall , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

Producing expressive facial animations from static images is a challenging task. Prior methods relying on explicit geometric priors (e.g., facial landmarks or 3DMM) often suffer from artifacts in cross reenactment and struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Qiang Wang , Mengchao Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yonggang Qi , Mu Xu

Recent talking avatar generation models have made strides in achieving realistic and accurate lip synchronization with the audio, but often fall short in controlling and conveying detailed expressions and emotions of the avatar, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Jianhong Bai , Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Tracking-free Relightable Avatar (TRAvatar), for capturing and reconstructing high-fidelity 3D avatars. Compared to previous methods, TRAvatar works in a more practical and efficient setting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Haotian Yang , Mingwu Zheng , Wanquan Feng , Haibin Huang , Yu-Kun Lai , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Chongyang Ma

Modeling relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular video is a long-standing and challenging task. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have been employed to reconstruct the avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Seonghwa Choi , Moonkyeong Choi , Mingyu Jang , Jaekyung Kim , Jianfei Cai , Wen-Huang Cheng , Sanghoon Lee

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

Creating digital avatars from textual prompts has long been a desirable yet challenging task. Despite the promising results achieved with 2D diffusion priors, current methods struggle to create high-quality and consistent animated avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenglin Zhou , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

We present En3D, an enhanced generative scheme for sculpting high-quality 3D human avatars. Unlike previous works that rely on scarce 3D datasets or limited 2D collections with imbalanced viewing angles and imprecise pose priors, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yifang Men , Biwen Lei , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Zhouhui Lian , Xuansong Xie

We propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

We present READ Avatars, a 3D-based approach for generating 2D avatars that are driven by audio input with direct and granular control over the emotion. Previous methods are unable to achieve realistic animation due to the many-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jack Saunders , Vinay Namboodiri

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Building photorealistic, animatable full-body digital humans remains a longstanding challenge in computer graphics and vision. Recent advances in animatable avatar modeling have largely progressed along two directions: improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann