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We present Dynamic Neural Portraits, a novel approach to the problem of full-head reenactment. Our method generates photo-realistic video portraits by explicitly controlling head pose, facial expressions and eye gaze. Our proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Michail Christos Doukas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Creating photorealistic, animatable, and relightable 3D head avatars traditionally requires expensive Lightstage with multiple calibrated cameras, making it inaccessible for widespread adoption. To bridge this gap, we present a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Pranav Manu , Astitva Srivastava , Amit Raj , Varun Jampani , Avinash Sharma , P. J. Narayanan

With the rapid advancement of large foundation models, AIGC, cloud rendering, and real-time motion capture technologies, digital humans are now capable of achieving synchronized facial expressions and body movements, engaging in intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chao He , Jianqiang Ren , Jianjing Xiang , Xiejie Shen

The problem of modeling an animatable 3D human head avatar under light-weight setups is of significant importance but has not been well solved. Existing 3D representations either perform well in the realism of portrait images synthesis or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaochen Zhao , Lizhen Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Hongwen Zhang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Creating realistic 3D head assets for virtual characters that match a precise artistic vision remains labor-intensive. We present a novel framework that streamlines this process by providing artists with intuitive control over generated 3D…

Combining human body models with differentiable rendering has recently enabled animatable avatars of clothed humans from sparse sets of multi-view RGB videos. While state-of-the-art approaches achieve realistic appearance with neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Shaofei Wang , Katja Schwarz , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Existing approaches to animatable NeRF-based head avatars are either built upon face templates or use the expression coefficients of templates as the driving signal. Despite the promising progress, their performances are heavily bound by…

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

We introduce a framework that automates the transformation of static anime illustrations into manipulatable 2.5D models. Current professional workflows require tedious manual segmentation and the artistic ``hallucination'' of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jian Lin , Chengze Li , Haoyun Qin , Kwun Wang Chan , Yanghua Jin , Hanyuan Liu , Stephen Chun Wang Choy , Xueting Liu

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

Capturing and editing full head performances enables the creation of virtual characters with various applications such as extended reality and media production. The past few years witnessed a steep rise in the photorealism of human head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mohit Mendiratta , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Vladislav Golyanik , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt

Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Qijun Gan , Ruizi Yang , Jianke Zhu , Shaofei Xue , Steven Hoi

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

We propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

While recent works have achieved great success on image-to-3D object generation, high quality and fidelity 3D head generation from a single image remains a great challenge. Previous text-based methods for generating 3D heads were limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinkun Hao , Junshu Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Yijia Hong , Moran Li , Weijian Cao , Yating Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

We propose a method to build in real-time animated 3D head models using a consumer-grade RGB-D camera. Our proposed method is the first one to provide simultaneously comprehensive facial motion tracking and a detailed 3D model of the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Diego Thomas

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have made it possible to reconstruct and reanimate dynamic portrait scenes with control over head-pose, facial expressions and viewing direction. However, training such models assumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Zexiang Xu , Fujun Luan , Sai Bi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Dimitris Samaras

In this paper, we propose to create animatable avatars for interacting hands with 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and single-image inputs. Existing GS-based methods designed for single subjects often yield unsatisfactory results due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuan Huang , Hanhui Li , Wanquan Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yiqiang Yan , Yuhao Cheng , Chengqiang Gao

We introduce a novel framework for modeling high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars from motion-blurred monocular video inputs. Motion blur is prevalent in real-world dynamic video capture, especially due to human movements in 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Fan Yang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin