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Creating high-quality animatable 3D human avatars from a single image remains a significant challenge in computer vision due to the inherent difficulty of reconstructing complete 3D information from a single viewpoint. Current approaches…

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Meeting online is becoming the new normal. Creating an immersive experience for online meetings is a necessity towards more diverse and seamless environments. Efficient photorealistic rendering of human 3D dynamics is the core of immersive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Chuanyue Shen , Letian Zhang , Zhangsihao Yang , Masood Mortazavi , Xiyun Song , Liang Peng , Heather Yu

We study the problem of creating high-fidelity and animatable 3D avatars from only textual descriptions. Existing text-to-avatar methods are either limited to static avatars which cannot be animated or struggle to generate animatable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jianfeng Zhang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Huichao Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Chenxu Zhang , Yi Yang , 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

3D modeling holds significant importance in the realms of AR/VR and gaming, allowing for both artistic creativity and practical applications. However, the process is often time-consuming and demands a high level of skill. In this paper, we…

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We propose DistillNeRF, a self-supervised learning framework addressing the challenge of understanding 3D environments from limited 2D observations in outdoor autonomous driving scenes. Our method is a generalizable feedforward model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Letian Wang , Seung Wook Kim , Jiawei Yang , Cunjun Yu , Boris Ivanovic , Steven L. Waslander , Yue Wang , Sanja Fidler , Marco Pavone , Peter Karkus

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 propose a pipeline to generate Neural Radiance Fields~(NeRF) of an object or a scene of a specific class, conditioned on a single input image. This is a challenging task, as training NeRF requires multiple views of the same scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shengqu Cai , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

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…

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Virtual environments (VEs) are pivotal for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems. Despite advances in 3D generation and reconstruction, the direct creation of 3D objects within an established 3D scene (represented as NeRF) for novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Peng Dai , Feitong Tan , Xin Yu , Yifan Peng , Yinda Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi

Volumetric modeling and neural radiance field representations have revolutionized 3D face capture and photorealistic novel view synthesis. However, these methods often require hundreds of multi-view input images and are thus inapplicable to…

Recently, we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However, due to the diversity of frameworks, there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Bao , Yinda Zhang , Yuan Li , Xiyu Zhang , Bangbang Yang , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Making generative models 3D-aware bridges the 2D image space and the 3D physical world yet remains challenging. Recent attempts equip a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) with a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), which maps 3D coordinates to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yinghao Xu , Sida Peng , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

Recent works have shown that neural radiance fields (NeRFs) on top of parametric models have reached SOTA quality to build photorealistic head avatars from a monocular video. However, one major limitation of the NeRF-based avatars is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Huan Wang , Feitong Tan , Ziqian Bai , Yinda Zhang , Shichen Liu , Qiangeng Xu , Menglei Chai , Anish Prabhu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Zeng Huang , Yun Fu

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

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Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming ubiquitous with the rise of consumer displays and commercial VR platforms. Such displays require low latency and high quality rendering of synthetic imagery with reduced compute overheads. Recent advances in…

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In this paper, we introduce FitMe, a facial reflectance model and a differentiable rendering optimization pipeline, that can be used to acquire high-fidelity renderable human avatars from single or multiple images. The model consists of a…

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This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

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