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Real-time rendering with global illumination is crucial to afford the user realistic experience in virtual environments. We present a learning-based estimator to predict diffuse indirect illumination in screen space, which then is combined…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Meng Gai , Guoping Wang , Sheng Li

Combining the signed distance function (SDF) and differentiable volume rendering has emerged as a powerful paradigm for surface reconstruction from multi-view images without 3D supervision. However, current methods are impeded by requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Rui Peng , Xiaodong Gu , Luyang Tang , Shihe Shen , Fanqi Yu , Ronggang Wang

The goal of our work is to generate high-quality novel views from monocular videos of complex and dynamic scenes. Prior methods, such as DynamicNeRF, have shown impressive performance by leveraging time-varying dynamic radiation fields.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Xingyu Miao , Yang Bai , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Fan Wan , Yang Long , Yefeng Zheng

We present GASPACHO, a method for generating photorealistic, controllable renderings of human-object interactions from multi-view RGB video. Unlike prior work that reconstructs only the human and treats objects as background, GASPACHO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Aymen Mir , Arthur Moreau , Helisa Dhamo , Zhensong Zhang , Gerard Pons-Moll , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

In this paper, we propose ARCH (Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humans), a novel end-to-end framework for accurate reconstruction of animation-ready 3D clothed humans from a monocular image. Existing approaches to digitize 3D humans…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zeng Huang , Yuanlu Xu , Christoph Lassner , Hao Li , Tony Tung

Recent methods for dynamic human reconstruction have attained promising reconstruction results. Most of these methods rely only on RGB color supervision without considering explicit geometric constraints. This leads to existing human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Junhui Yin , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Xuqian Ren , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo , Yifan Liu

In this paper we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first method to learn a generative model of 3D shapes from natural images in a fully unsupervised way. For example, we do not use any ground truth 3D or 2D annotations, stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Attila Szabó , Givi Meishvili , Paolo Favaro

This paper addresses the challenge of quickly reconstructing free-viewpoint videos of dynamic humans from sparse multi-view videos. Some recent works represent the dynamic human as a canonical neural radiance field (NeRF) and a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Chen Geng , Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

In this paper, we propose SelfNeRF, an efficient neural radiance field based novel view synthesis method for human performance. Given monocular self-rotating videos of human performers, SelfNeRF can train from scratch and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Bo Peng , Jun Hu , Jingtao Zhou , Juyong Zhang

Creating relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular videos is a rising research topic with a range of applications, e.g. virtual reality, sports, and video games. Previous works utilize neural fields together with physically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Zeren Jiang , Shaofei Wang , Siyu Tang

We propose an approach for optimizing high-quality clothed human body shapes in minutes, using multi-view posed images. While traditional neural rendering methods struggle to disentangle geometry and appearance using only rendering loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lixiang Lin , Songyou Peng , Qijun Gan , Jianke Zhu

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

We propose a CNN-based approach for 3D human body pose estimation from single RGB images that addresses the issue of limited generalizability of models trained solely on the starkly limited publicly available 3D pose data. Using only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Dushyant Mehta , Helge Rhodin , Dan Casas , Pascal Fua , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

Given a monocular face image as input, 3D face geometry reconstruction aims to recover a corresponding 3D face mesh. Recently, both optimization-based and learning-based face reconstruction methods have taken advantage of the emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jingtan Piao , Keqiang Sun , KwanYee Lin , Quan Wang , Hongsheng Li

We propose Human Pose Models that represent RGB and depth images of human poses independent of clothing textures, backgrounds, lighting conditions, body shapes and camera viewpoints. Learning such universal models requires training images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Jian Liu , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Rendering novel view images is highly desirable for many applications. Despite recent progress, it remains challenging to render high-fidelity and view-consistent novel views of large-scale scenes from in-the-wild images with inevitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Peng Dai , Yinda Zhang , Xin Yu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Xiaojuan Qi

Leveraging human perception into training of convolutional neural networks (CNN) has boosted generalization capabilities of such models in open-set recognition tasks. One of the active research questions is where (in the model architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Colton R. Crum , Adam Czajka

Reconstructing people, objects, and their interactions in 3D is a long-standing goal for intelligent systems. Often the input is RGB video from a moving camera, making the task ill-posed; depth is ambiguous, humans and objects occlude each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lixin Xue , Chengwei Zheng , Georgios Paschalidis , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Zarate , Dimitrios Tzionas

We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video. A parameterized body model is refined and optimized to maximally resemble subjects from a video showing them from all sides. Our avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll