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With NeRF widely used for facial reenactment, recent methods can recover photo-realistic 3D head avatar from just a monocular video. Unfortunately, the training process of the NeRF-based methods is quite time-consuming, as MLP used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuelang Xu , Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

We present HandAvatar, a novel representation for hand animation and rendering, which can generate smoothly compositional geometry and self-occlusion-aware texture. Specifically, we first develop a MANO-HD model as a high-resolution mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xingyu Chen , Baoyuan Wang , Heung-Yeung Shum

Reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 4D head avatars from a single portrait image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While diffusion models have enabled remarkable progress in image and video generation for avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chao Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , Xiang Deng , Jingxiang Sun , Donglin Di , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

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

We present a new approach for video-driven animation of high-quality neural 3D head models, addressing the challenge of person-independent animation from video input. Typically, high-quality generative models are learned for specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Wolfgang Paier , Paul Hinzer , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Lightweight creation of 3D digital avatars is a highly desirable but challenging task. With only sparse videos of a person under unknown illumination, we propose a method to create relightable and animatable neural avatars, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Wenbin Lin , Chengwei Zheng , Jun-Hai Yong , Feng Xu

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

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

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

We present a method and application for animating a human subject from a single photo. E.g., the character can walk out, run, sit, or jump in 3D. The key contributions of this paper are: 1) an application of viewing and animating humans in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Chung-Yi Weng , Brian Curless , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Controllable 3D human avatars have found widespread applications in 3D games, the metaverse, and AR/VR scenarios. The conventional approach to creating such a 3D avatar requires a lengthy, intricate pipeline encompassing appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiahe Zhu , Xinyao Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Yanwen Wang , Jing Tian , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

We present DreamHuman, a method to generate realistic animatable 3D human avatar models solely from textual descriptions. Recent text-to-3D methods have made considerable strides in generation, but are still lacking in important aspects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Mihai Fieraru , Cristian Sminchisescu

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

Building realistic and animatable avatars still requires minutes of multi-view or monocular self-rotating videos, and most methods lack precise control over gestures and expressions. To push this boundary, we address the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jun Xiang , Yudong Guo , Leipeng Hu , Boyang Guo , Yancheng Yuan , Juyong Zhang

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

We propose a method to learn a high-quality implicit 3D head avatar from a monocular RGB video captured in the wild. The learnt avatar is driven by a parametric face model to achieve user-controlled facial expressions and head poses. Our…

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue