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Recent communities have seen significant progress in building photo-realistic animatable avatars from sparse multi-view videos. However, current workflows struggle to render realistic garment dynamics for loose-fitting characters as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Beijia Chen , Yuefan Shen , Qing Shuai , Xiaowei Zhou , Kun Zhou , Youyi Zheng

This paper introduces a novel clothed human model that can be learned from multiview RGB videos, with a particular emphasis on recovering physically accurate body and cloth movements. Our method, Position Based Dynamic Gaussians (PBDyG),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shota Sasaki , Jane Wu , Ko Nishino

Accurately recovering human pose and appearance from video is an essential component of scene reconstruction, with applications to motion capture, motion prediction, virtual reality, and digital twinning. Despite significant interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yeheng Zong , Pou-Chun Kung , Yike Pan , Seth Isaacson , Yizhou Chen , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

Avatar modelling has broad applications in human animation and virtual try-ons. Recent advancements in this field have focused on high-quality and comprehensive human reconstruction but often overlook the separation of clothing from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingxuan Chen

We present a novel method for reconstructing personalized 3D human avatars with realistic animation from only a few images. Due to the large variations in body shapes, poses, and cloth types, existing methods mostly require hours of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rong Wang , Fabian Prada , Ziyan Wang , Zhongshi Jiang , Chengxiang Yin , Junxuan Li , Shunsuke Saito , Igor Santesteban , Javier Romero , Rohan Joshi , Hongdong Li , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Animatable clothing transfer, aiming at dressing and animating garments across characters, is a challenging problem. Most human avatar works entangle the representations of the human body and clothing together, which leads to difficulties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Siyou Lin , Zhe Li , Zhaoqi Su , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

While current methods have shown promising progress on estimating 3D human motion from monocular videos, their motion estimates are often physically unrealistic because they mainly consider kinematics. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yufei Zhang , Jeffrey O. Kephart , Zijun Cui , Qiang Ji

We address the problem of estimating human pose and body shape from 3D scans over time. Reliable estimation of 3D body shape is necessary for many applications including virtual try-on, health monitoring, and avatar creation for virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Chao Zhang , Sergi Pujades , Michael Black , Gerard Pons-Moll

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

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Creating a physical digital twin of a real-world object has immense potential in robotics, content creation, and XR. In this paper, we present PhysTwin, a novel framework that uses sparse videos of dynamic objects under interaction to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hanxiao Jiang , Hao-Yu Hsu , Kaifeng Zhang , Hsin-Ni Yu , Shenlong Wang , Yunzhu Li

While progress in 2D generative models of human appearance has been rapid, many applications require 3D avatars that can be animated and rendered. Unfortunately, most existing methods for learning generative models of 3D humans with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zijian Dong , Xu Chen , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Andreas Geiger

Avatar reconstruction has traditionally relied on per-subject optimization that requires hours of computation or on expensive preprocessing that limits scalability. We introduce FFAvatar, a generalizable feed-forward framework that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Jiahao Luo , Yinyu Nie , Hao Li , Gordon Guocheng Qian , Jian Wang

We introduce Gaussian Wardrobe, a novel framework to digitalize compositional 3D neural avatars from multi-view videos. Existing methods for 3D neural avatars typically treat the human body and clothing as an inseparable entity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhiyi Chen , Hsuan-I Ho , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Manuel Kaufmann , Chen Guo

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

We present NBAvatar - a method for realistic rendering of head avatars handling non-rigid deformations caused by hand-face interaction. We introduce a novel representation for animated avatars by combining the training of oriented planar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Svitov , Mahtab Dahaghin

Despite significant progress in 3D avatar reconstruction, it still faces challenges such as high time complexity, sensitivity to data quality, and low data utilization. We propose FastAvatar, a feedforward 3D avatar framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yue Wu , Xuanhong Chen , Yufan Wu , Wen Li , Yuxi Lu , Kairui Feng

To make 3D human avatars widely available, we must be able to generate a variety of 3D virtual humans with varied identities and shapes in arbitrary poses. This task is challenging due to the diversity of clothed body shapes, their complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges