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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…

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Over the past years, a substantial amount of work has been done on the problem of facial reenactment, with the solutions coming mainly from the graphics community. Head reenactment is an even more challenging task, which aims at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Michail Christos Doukas , Mohammad Rami Koujan , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advances in deep learning methods have increased the performance of face detection and recognition systems. The accuracy of these models relies on the range of variation provided in the training data. Creating a dataset that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shubhajit Basak , Hossein Javidnia , Faisal Khan , Rachel McDonnell , Michael Schukat

Reconstructing personalized animatable head avatars has significant implications in the fields of AR/VR. Existing methods for achieving explicit face control of 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) typically rely on multi-view images or videos of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haoyu Ma , Tong Zhang , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

The task of novel view synthesis aims to generate unseen perspectives of an object or scene from a limited set of input images. Nevertheless, synthesizing novel views from a single image still remains a significant challenge in the realm of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yifan Jiang , Hao Tang , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Liangchen Song , Zhangyang Wang , Liangliang Cao

Motion transfer of talking-head videos involves generating a new video with the appearance of a subject video and the motion pattern of a driving video. Current methodologies primarily depend on a limited number of subject images and 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Haomiao Ni , Jiachen Liu , Yuan Xue , Sharon X. Huang

We present a 3D-aware one-shot head reenactment method based on a fully volumetric neural disentanglement framework for source appearance and driver expressions. Our method is real-time and produces high-fidelity and view-consistent output,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Phong Tran , Egor Zakharov , Long-Nhat Ho , Anh Tuan Tran , Liwen Hu , Hao Li

We introduce a method for novel view synthesis given only a single wide-baseline stereo image pair. In this challenging regime, 3D scene points are regularly observed only once, requiring prior-based reconstruction of scene geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yilun Du , Cameron Smith , Ayush Tewari , Vincent Sitzmann

Learning robust and scalable visual representations from massive multi-view video data remains a challenge in computer vision and autonomous driving. Existing pre-training methods either rely on expensive supervised learning with 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Jialv Zou , Bencheng Liao , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

We present Vid2Avatar-Pro, a method to create photorealistic and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Building a high-quality avatar that supports animation with diverse poses from a monocular video is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chen Guo , Junxuan Li , Yash Kant , Yaser Sheikh , Shunsuke Saito , Chen Cao

Reconstructing a complete 3D head from a single portrait remains challenging because existing methods still face a sharp quality-speed trade-off: high-fidelity pipelines often rely on multi-stage processing and per-subject optimization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yujie Gao , Yao Xiao , Xiangnan Zhu , Ya Li , Yiyi Zhang , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

Videos captured from multiple viewpoints can help in perceiving the 3D structure of the world and benefit computer vision tasks such as action recognition, tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a method for self-supervised learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketul Shah , Robert Crandall , Jie Xu , Peng Zhou , Marian George , Mayank Bansal , Rama Chellappa

Speech-driven three-dimensional (3D) facial animation synthesis aims to build a mapping from one-dimensional (1D) speech signals to time-varying 3D facial motion signals. Current methods still face challenges in maintaining lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Bin Liu , Zhixiang Xiong , Zhifen He , Bo Li

View synthesis aims to generate novel views from one or more given source views. Although existing methods have achieved promising performance, they usually require paired views of different poses to learn a pixel transformation. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Bingzheng Liu , Jianjun Lei , Bo Peng , Chuanbo Yu , Wanqing Li , Nam Ling

We present Neural Voice Puppetry, a novel approach for audio-driven facial video synthesis. Given an audio sequence of a source person or digital assistant, we generate a photo-realistic output video of a target person that is in sync with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Justus Thies , Mohamed Elgharib , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt , Matthias Nießner

High-fidelity reconstruction of head avatars from monocular videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications, but it remains a challenge in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a two-phase…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Pilseo Park , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu , Yiying Tong

Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianan Li , Xiao Chen , Tao Huang , Tien-Tsin Wong

We present Avatar4D, a real-world transferable pipeline for generating customizable synthetic human motion datasets tailored to domain-specific applications. Unlike prior works, which focus on general, everyday motions and offer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jerrin Bright , Zhibo Wang , Dmytro Klepachevskyi , Yuhao Chen , Sirisha Rambhatla , David Clausi , John Zelek

Portrait synthesis creates realistic digital avatars which enable users to interact with others in a compelling way. Recent advances in StyleGAN and its extensions have shown promising results in synthesizing photorealistic and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Kai-En Lin , Alex Trevithick , Keli Cheng , Michel Sarkis , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Ning Bi , Gerhard Reitmayr , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Virtual reality (VR) headsets provide an immersive, stereoscopic visual experience, but at the cost of blocking users from directly observing their physical environment. Passthrough techniques are intended to address this limitation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Lei Xiao , Salah Nouri , Joel Hegland , Alberto Garcia Garcia , Douglas Lanman