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As the digital and physical worlds become more intertwined, there has been a lot of interest in digital avatars that closely resemble their real-world counterparts. Current digitization methods used in 3D production pipelines require costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifan Wang , Ivan Molodetskikh , Ondrej Texler , Dimitar Dinev

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

With the rapid development of Role-Playing Games (RPGs), players are now allowed to edit the facial appearance of their in-game characters with their preferences rather than using default templates. This paper proposes a game character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Tianyang Shi , Zhengxia Zou , Yi Yuan , Changjie Fan

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

We present an interactive approach to synthesizing realistic variations in facial hair in images, ranging from subtle edits to existing hair to the addition of complex and challenging hair in images of clean-shaven subjects. To circumvent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Kyle Olszewski , Duygu Ceylan , Jun Xing , Jose Echevarria , Zhili Chen , Weikai Chen , Hao Li

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

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 introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shengjie Ma , Yanlin Weng , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Unsupervised generation of 3D-aware clothed humans with various appearances and controllable geometries is important for creating virtual human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Faithful real-time facial animation is essential for avatar-mediated telepresence in Virtual Reality (VR). To emulate authentic communication, avatar animation needs to be efficient and accurate: able to capture both extreme and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shaojie Bai , Te-Li Wang , Chenghui Li , Akshay Venkatesh , Tomas Simon , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Ryan Wrench , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh , Shih-En Wei

Previous 3D human creation methods have made significant progress in synthesizing view-consistent and temporally aligned results from sparse-view images or monocular videos. However, it remains challenging to produce perpetually realistic,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shoukang Hu , Takuya Narihira , Kazumi Fukuda , Ryosuke Sawata , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

We introduce a highly robust GAN-based framework for digitizing a normalized 3D avatar of a person from a single unconstrained photo. While the input image can be of a smiling person or taken in extreme lighting conditions, our method can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Huiwen Luo , Koki Nagano , Han-Wei Kung , Mclean Goldwhite , Qingguo Xu , Zejian Wang , Lingyu Wei , Liwen Hu , Hao Li

We propose PFAvatar (Pose-Fusion Avatar), a new method that reconstructs high-quality 3D avatars from Outfit of the Day(OOTD) photos, which exhibit diverse poses, occlusions, and complex backgrounds. Our method consists of two stages: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dianbing Xi , Guoyuan An , Jingsen Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Yuan Liu , Ruiyuan Zhang , Jiayuan Lu , Yuchi Huo , Rui Wang

We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev

This paper studies the task of full generative modelling of realistic images of humans, guided only by coarse sketch of the pose, while providing control over the specific instance or type of outfit worn by the user. This is a difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

We introduce GaussianAvatars, a new method to create photorealistic head avatars that are fully controllable in terms of expression, pose, and viewpoint. The core idea is a dynamic 3D representation based on 3D Gaussian splats that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shenhan Qian , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Davide Davoli , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

In this research paper we suggest how to extract a face from an image, modify it, characterize it in terms of high-level properties, and apply it to the creation of a personalized avatar. In this research work we tested, we implemented the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Vibekananda Dutta , Dr Nishtha Kesswani , Deepti Gahalot

Rendering photorealistic and dynamically moving human heads is crucial for ensuring a pleasant and immersive experience in AR/VR and video conferencing applications. However, existing methods often struggle to model challenging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Cong Wang , Di Kang , Yan-Pei Cao , Linchao Bao , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang