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There is a growing demand for the accessible creation of high-quality 3D avatars that are animatable and customizable. Although 3D morphable models provide intuitive control for editing and animation, and robustness for single-view face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Connor Z. Lin , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Eric R. Chan , Umar Iqbal , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sameh Khamis

Tuning-free personalized image generation methods have achieved significant success in maintaining facial consistency, i.e., identities, even with multiple characters. However, the lack of holistic consistency in scenes with multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhengguang Zhou , Jing Li , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang

In the field of digital content creation, generating high-quality 3D characters from single images is challenging, especially given the complexities of various body poses and the issues of self-occlusion and pose ambiguity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Hao-Yang Peng , Jia-Peng Zhang , Meng-Hao Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Min Hu

Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Generating realistic intermediate shapes between non-rigidly deformed shapes is a challenging task in computer vision, especially with unstructured data (e.g., point clouds) where temporal consistency across frames is lacking, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Riccardo Marin , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

In this paper, we propose the first sketching system for interactively personalized and photorealistic face caricaturing. Input an image of a human face, the users can create caricature photos by manipulating its facial feature curves. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Xiaoguang Han , Kangcheng Hou , Dong Du , Yuda Qiu , Yizhou Yu , Kun Zhou , Shuguang Cui

The rapid evolution of 3D content creation, encompassing both AI-powered methods and traditional workflows, is driving an unprecedented demand for automated rigging solutions that can keep pace with the increasing complexity and diversity…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jia-Peng Zhang , Cheng-Feng Pu , Meng-Hao Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Min Hu

Randomized neural networks for representation learning have consistently achieved prominent results in texture recognition tasks, effectively combining the advantages of both traditional techniques and learning-based approaches. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ricardo T. Fares , Lucas C. Ribas

We present NeuroMorph, a new neural network architecture that takes as input two 3D shapes and produces in one go, i.e. in a single feed forward pass, a smooth interpolation and point-to-point correspondences between them. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Marvin Eisenberger , David Novotny , Gael Kerchenbaum , Patrick Labatut , Natalia Neverova , Daniel Cremers , Andrea Vedaldi

Generating large-scale multi-character interactions is a challenging and important task in character animation. Multi-character interactions involve not only natural interactive motions but also characters coordinated with each other for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ziyi Chang , He Wang , George Alex Koulieris , Hubert P. H. Shum

Skeleton-based and cage-based deformation techniques represent the two most popular approaches to control real-time deformations of digital shapes and are, to a vast extent, complementary to one another. Despite their complementary roles,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Fabrizio Corda , Jean-Marc Thiery , Marco Livesu , Enrico Puppo , Tamy Boubekeur , Riccardo Scateni

Human skull identification is an arduous task, traditionally requiring the expertise of forensic artists and anthropologists. This paper is an effort to automate the process of matching skull images to digital face images, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Maneet Singh , Shruti Nagpal , Richa Singh , Mayank Vatsa , Afzel Noore

Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, with applications in gaming, character animation, virtual reality, and telepresence systems. State-of-the-art methods deform the face topology of the target actor to sync the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Balamurugan Thambiraja , Ikhsanul Habibie , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Darren Cosker , Christian Theobalt , Justus Thies

This paper proposes a novel application system for the generation of three-dimensional (3D) character animation driven by markerless human body motion capturing. The entire pipeline of the system consists of five stages: 1) the capturing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jinbao Wang , Ke Lu , Jian Xue

Animating various character drawings is an engaging visual content creation task. Given a single character drawing, existing animation methods are limited to flat 2D motions and thus lack 3D effects. An alternative solution is to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jie Zhou , Chufeng Xiao , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

We propose ClipFace, a novel self-supervised approach for text-guided editing of textured 3D morphable model of faces. Specifically, we employ user-friendly language prompts to enable control of the expressions as well as appearance of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Shivangi Aneja , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Head shapes play an important role in 3D character design. In this work, we propose SimpModeling, a novel sketch-based system for helping users, especially amateur users, easily model 3D animalmorphic heads - a prevalent kind of heads in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Zhongjin Luo , Jie Zhou , Heming Zhu , Dong Du , Xiaoguang Han , Hongbo Fu

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models enable richer human-AI interaction. Yet jointly customizing a character's persona, dialogue style, and visual identity while maintaining output consistency across modalities remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chao Tang , Jianzong Wu , Qingyu Shi , Ye Tian , Aixi Zhang , Hao Jiang , Jiangning Zhang , Yunhai Tong

Controllable character image animation has a wide range of applications. Although existing studies have consistently improved performance, challenges persist in the field of character image animation, particularly concerning stability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jingyun Xue , Hongfa Wang , Qi Tian , Yue Ma , Andong Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Shaobo Min , Wenzhe Zhao , Kaihao Zhang , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Mengyang Liu , Wenhan Luo

One of the serious issues in communication between people is hiding information from others, and the best way for this, is deceiving them. Since nowadays face images are mostly used in three dimensional format, in this paper we are going to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Mohsen Moradi , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi