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Animatable 3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem due to the ambiguity in decoupling geometry, appearance, and deformation. Recent advances in 3D human reconstruction mainly focus on static human modeling, and…

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Controllable 3D human avatars have found widespread applications in 3D games, the metaverse, and AR/VR scenarios. The conventional approach to creating such a 3D avatar requires a lengthy, intricate pipeline encompassing appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jiahe Zhu , Xinyao Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Yanwen Wang , Jing Tian , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu

As the development of deep neural networks, 3D object recognition is becoming increasingly popular in computer vision community. Many multi-view based methods are proposed to improve the category recognition accuracy. These approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Qi Xuan , Fuxian Li , Yi Liu , Yun Xiang

No augmented application is possible without animated humanoid avatars. At the same time, generating human replicas from real-world monocular hand-held or robotic sensor setups is challenging due to the limited availability of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Alessandro Sanvito , Andrea Ramazzina , Stefanie Walz , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Caricature is an artistic representation that deliberately exaggerates the distinctive features of a human face to convey humor or sarcasm. However, reconstructing a 3D caricature from a 2D caricature image remains a challenging task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Yuda Qiu , Xiaojie Xu , Lingteng Qiu , Yan Pan , Yushuang Wu , Weikai Chen , Xiaoguang Han

Anime video generation faces significant challenges due to the scarcity of anime data and unusual motion patterns, leading to issues such as motion distortion and flickering artifacts, which result in misalignment with human preferences.…

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Humans can infer the three-dimensional structure of objects from two-dimensional visual inputs. Modeling this ability has been a longstanding goal for the science and engineering of visual intelligence, yet decades of computational methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tyler Bonnen , Jitendra Malik , Angjoo Kanazawa

We present DreamHuman, a method to generate realistic animatable 3D human avatar models solely from textual descriptions. Recent text-to-3D methods have made considerable strides in generation, but are still lacking in important aspects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Mihai Fieraru , Cristian Sminchisescu

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 3D face reconstruction methods reconstruct the entire head compared to earlier approaches which only model the face. Although these methods accurately reconstruct facial features, they do not explicitly regulate the upper part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Sohan Anisetty , Varsha Saravanabavan , Cai Yiyu

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

Zero-shot novel view synthesis (NVS) from a single image is an essential problem in 3D object understanding. While recent approaches that leverage pre-trained generative models can synthesize high-quality novel views from in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jianglong Ye , Peng Wang , Kejie Li , Yichun Shi , Heng Wang

In this paper we present a new deep learning-driven approach to image-based synthesis of animations involving humanoid characters. Unlike previous deep approaches to image-based animation our method makes no assumptions on the type of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 John Kanji , David I. W. Levin

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu

We introduce TurboPortrait3D: a method for low-latency novel-view synthesis of human portraits. Our approach builds on the observation that existing image-to-3D models for portrait generation, while capable of producing renderable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Emily Kim , Julieta Martinez , Timur Bagautdinov , Jessica Hodgins

Creating 3D character animations traditionally requires significant time and effort from the animator. Advancements in generative methods now enable easy creation of multiple character animation variations for use or further editing.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ludwig Sidenmark , Qian Zhou , George Fitzmaurice , Fraser Anderson

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

High-fidelity reconstruction of head avatars from monocular videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications, but it remains a challenge in the fields of computer graphics and computer vision. In this paper, we propose a two-phase…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Pilseo Park , Ze Zhang , Michel Sarkis , Ning Bi , Xiaoming Liu , Yiying Tong

Face animation has received a lot of attention from researchers in recent years due to its wide range of promising applications. Many face animation models based on optical flow or deep neural networks have achieved great success. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Zhaoying Pan , Jinge Ma

Evaluating the perceptual quality of Novel View Synthesis (NVS) images remains a key challenge, particularly in the absence of pixel-aligned ground truth references. Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) methods fail under…

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