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This work focuses on the problem of reconstructing a 3D human body mesh from a given 2D image. Despite the inherent ambiguity of the task of human mesh recovery, most existing works have adopted a method of regressing a single output. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Hanbyel Cho , Junmo Kim

Three-dimensional human body models are widely used in the analysis of human pose and motion. Existing models, however, are learned from minimally-clothed 3D scans and thus do not generalize to the complexity of dressed people in common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Qianli Ma , Jinlong Yang , Anurag Ranjan , Sergi Pujades , Gerard Pons-Moll , Siyu Tang , Michael J. Black

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved conditional video generation, particularly in the pose-guided human image animation task. Although existing methods are capable of generating high-fidelity and time-consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shuolin Xu , Siming Zheng , Ziyi Wang , HC Yu , Jinwei Chen , Huaqi Zhang , Daquan Zhou , Tong-Yee Lee , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

Controllable human image animation aims to generate videos from reference images using driving videos. Due to the limited control signals provided by sparse guidance (e.g., skeleton pose), recent works have attempted to introduce additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Yuhang Yang , Junjie Cao , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Long Chen

We propose a framework to learn a structured latent space to represent 4D human body motion, where each latent vector encodes a full motion of the whole 3D human shape. On one hand several data-driven skeletal animation models exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mathieu Marsot , Stefanie Wuhrer , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Stephane Durocher

Due to the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks, video synthesis has witnessed exceptional breakthroughs. However, existing methods lack a proper representation to explicitly control the dynamics in videos. Human pose, on the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Ceyuan Yang , Zhe Wang , Xinge Zhu , Chen Huang , Jianping Shi , Dahua Lin

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Inferring 3D human motion is fundamental in many applications, including understanding human activity and analyzing one's intention. While many fruitful efforts have been made to human motion prediction, most approaches focus on pose-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xuehao Gao , Yang Yang , Yang Wu , Shaoyi Du , Guo-Jun Qi

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Recent months have witnessed rapid progress in 3D generation based on diffusion models. Most advances require fine-tuning existing 2D Stable Diffsuions into multi-view settings or tedious distilling operations and hence fall short of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Suyi Jiang , Haimin Luo , Haoran Jiang , Ziyu Wang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

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

Reconstructing photo-realistic and topology-aware animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging in computer vision and graphics. Recently, methods using 3D Gaussians to represent the human body have emerged, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Chen Yang , Hao Wang , Xingyue Zhao , Wei Shen

Multiple cameras can provide comprehensive multi-view video coverage of a person. Fusing this multi-view data is crucial for tasks like behavioral analysis, although it traditionally requires camera calibration, a process that is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Mengjie Xu , Zixu Zhuang , Zhixin Wang , Kaidong Wang , Han Zhang , Qian Wang

This paper addresses the challenge of high-fidelity view synthesis of humans with sparse-view videos as input. Previous methods solve the issue of insufficient observation by leveraging 4D diffusion models to generate videos at novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yudong Jin , Sida Peng , Xuan Wang , Tao Xie , Zhen Xu , Yifan Yang , Yujun Shen , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We describe the first method to automatically estimate the 3D pose of the human body as well as its 3D shape from a single unconstrained image. We estimate a full 3D mesh and show that 2D joints alone carry a surprising amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Federica Bogo , Angjoo Kanazawa , Christoph Lassner , Peter Gehler , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

Human image animation aims to generate human videos of given characters and backgrounds that adhere to the desired pose sequence. However, existing methods focus more on human actions while neglecting the generation of background, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xiaoyu Liu , Mingshuai Yao , Yabo Zhang , Xianhui Lin , Peiran Ren , Xiaoming Li , Ming Liu , Wangmeng Zuo

The Skinned Multi-Person Linear (SMPL) model can represent a human body by mapping pose and shape parameters to body meshes. This has been shown to facilitate inferring 3D human pose and shape from images via different learning models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Andrey Davydov , Anastasia Remizova , Victor Constantin , Sina Honari , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We introduce a method for generating realistic pedestrian trajectories and full-body animations that can be controlled to meet user-defined goals. We draw on recent advances in guided diffusion modeling to achieve test-time controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Davis Rempe , Zhengyi Luo , Xue Bin Peng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

Generating good quality and geometrically plausible synthetic images of humans with the ability to control appearance, pose and shape parameters, has become increasingly important for a variety of tasks ranging from photo editing, fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Oneata , Alin-Ionut Popa , Andrei Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

3D human generation is increasingly significant in various applications. However, the direct use of 2D generative methods in 3D generation often results in losing local details, while methods that reconstruct geometry from generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Muxin Zhang , Qiao Feng , Zhuo Su , Chao Wen , Zhou Xue , Kun Li