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Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

This paper introduces Video2MR, a mixed reality system that automatically generates 3D sports and exercise instructions from 2D videos. Mixed reality instructions have great potential for physical training, but existing works require…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Keiichi Ihara , Kyzyl Monteiro , Mehrad Faridan , Rubaiat Habib Kazi , Ryo Suzuki

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of 3D human model and avatar generation technology, propelled by the rapid advancements in large-scale models and artificial intelligence. The paper reviews the comprehensive process of 3D human…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Liu , Ke Zhao

Human motion video generation has garnered significant research interest due to its broad applications, enabling innovations such as photorealistic singing heads or dynamic avatars that seamlessly dance to music. However, existing surveys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haiwei Xue , Xiangyang Luo , Zhanghao Hu , Xin Zhang , Xunzhi Xiang , Yuqin Dai , Jianzhuang Liu , Zhensong Zhang , Minglei Li , Jian Yang , Fei Ma , Zhiyong Wu , Changpeng Yang , Zonghong Dai , Fei Richard Yu

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

We tackle the challenges of synthesizing versatile, physically simulated human motions for full-body object manipulation. Unlike prior methods that are focused on detailed motion tracking, trajectory following, or teleoperation, our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chen Tessler , Yifeng Jiang , Erwin Coumans , Zhengyi Luo , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

In this paper, we rethink text-to-avatar generative models by proposing TeRA, a more efficient and effective framework than the previous SDS-based models and general large 3D generative models. Our approach employs a two-stage training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanwen Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Jiawei Zhang , Li Wang , Yifei Zeng , Xun Cao , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

There is a growing demand for customized and expressive 3D characters with the emergence of AI agents and Metaverse, but creating 3D characters using traditional computer graphics tools is a complex and time-consuming task. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jianqiang Ren , Chao He , Lin Liu , Jiahao Chen , Yutong Wang , Yafei Song , Jianfang Li , Tangli Xue , Siqi Hu , Tao Chen , Kunkun Zheng , Jianjing Xiang , Liefeng Bo

To integrate digital humans into everyday life, there is a strong demand for generating high-quality, fine-grained disentangled 3D avatars that support expressive animation and simulation capabilities, ideally from low-cost textual inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokun Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Hao Tang , Zili Yi , Jian Yang

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Although telepresence assistive robots have made significant progress, they still lack the sense of realism and physical presence of the remote operator. This results in a lack of trust and adoption of such robots. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ravi Tejwani , Chengyuan Ma , Paolo Bonato , H. Harry Asada

Markerless motion capture algorithms require a 3D body with properly personalized skeleton dimension and/or body shape and appearance to successfully track a person. Unfortunately, many tracking methods consider model personalization a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Helge Rhodin , Nadia Robertini , Dan Casas , Christian Richardt , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

We introduce Unimotion, the first unified multi-task human motion model capable of both flexible motion control and frame-level motion understanding. While existing works control avatar motion with global text conditioning, or with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chuqiao Li , Julian Chibane , Yannan He , Naama Pearl , Andreas Geiger , Gerard Pons-moll

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

Modern 3D-GANs synthesize geometry and texture by training on large-scale datasets with a consistent structure. Training such models on stylized, artistic data, with often unknown, highly variable geometry, and camera information has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Rameen Abdal , Hsin-Ying Lee , Peihao Zhu , Menglei Chai , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Peter Wonka , Sergey Tulyakov

Recent talking avatar generation models have made strides in achieving realistic and accurate lip synchronization with the audio, but often fall short in controlling and conveying detailed expressions and emotions of the avatar, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Jianhong Bai , Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

Delivering immersive, 3D experiences for human communication requires a method to obtain 360 degree photo-realistic avatars of humans. To make these experiences accessible to all, only commodity hardware, like mobile phone cameras, should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Stanislaw Szymanowicz , Virginia Estellers , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Matthew Johnson

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

Virtual human animations have a wide range of applications in virtual and augmented reality. While automatic generation methods of animated virtual humans have been developed, assessing their quality remains challenging. Recently,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Rim Rekik , Stefanie Wuhrer , Ludovic Hoyet , Katja Zibrek , Anne-Hélène Olivier

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

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