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We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

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

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

The generation of high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, with applications in VR, telepresence, and entertainment. Existing approaches based on implicit representations like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ramazan Fazylov , Sergey Zagoruyko , Aleksandr Parkin , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis , Ivan Laptev

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

Modern avatar generators allow anyone to synthesize photorealistic real-time talking avatars, ushering in a new era of avatar-based human communication, such as with immersive AR/VR interactions or videoconferencing with limited bandwidths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Ekta Prashnani , Koki Nagano , Shalini De Mello , David Luebke , Orazio Gallo

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

Recent advancements in automatic 3D avatar generation guided by text have made significant progress. However, existing methods have limitations such as oversaturation and low-quality output. To address these challenges, we propose X-Oscar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yiwei Ma , Zhekai Lin , Jiayi Ji , Yijun Fan , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Creating 3D head avatars is a significant yet challenging task for many applicated scenarios. Previous studies have set out to learn 3D human head generative models using massive 2D image data. Although these models are highly generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yiyu Zhuang , Yuxiao He , Jiawei Zhang , Yanwen Wang , Jiahe Zhu , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video. In this paper we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexander Richard , Colin Lea , Shugao Ma , Juergen Gall , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

The emergence of neural rendering has significantly advanced the rendering quality of 3D human avatars, with the recently popular 3DGS technique enabling real-time performance. However, SMPL-driven 3DGS human avatars still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wangze Xu , Yifan Zhan , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

Zero-shot talking avatar generation aims at synthesizing natural talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based motion representation and 3D Morphable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Runyi Yu , Yuchi Wang , Jialiang Zhu , Kaikai An , Leyi Li , Xu Tan , Chunyu Wang , Han Hu , HsiangTao Wu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

With NeRF widely used for facial reenactment, recent methods can recover photo-realistic 3D head avatar from just a monocular video. Unfortunately, the training process of the NeRF-based methods is quite time-consuming, as MLP used in the…

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

Generating digital humans that move realistically has many applications and is widely studied, but existing methods focus on the major limbs of the body, ignoring the hands and head. Hands have been separately studied, but the focus has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Omid Taheri , Vasileios Choutas , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas

Recent advances in text-driven human motion generation enable models to synthesize realistic motion sequences from natural language descriptions. However, most existing approaches assume identity-neutral motion and generate movements using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wenqi Jia , Zekun Li , Abhay Mittal , Chengcheng Tang , Chuan Guo , Lezi Wang , James Matthew Rehg , Lingling Tao , Size An

This paper addresses the problem of generating 3D interactive human motion from text. Given a textual description depicting the actions of different body parts in contact with static objects, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sihan Ma , Qiong Cao , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Generating controllable and editable human motion sequences is a key challenge in 3D Avatar generation. It has been labor-intensive to generate and animate human motion for a long time until learning-based approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zixiang Zhou , Baoyuan Wang

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Generating 3D human motions from text is a challenging yet valuable task. The key aspects of this task are ensuring text-motion consistency and achieving generation diversity. Although recent advancements have enabled the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zheng Qin , Yabing Wang , Minghui Yang , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang