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Visual Language Navigation is a task that challenges robots to navigate in realistic environments based on natural language instructions. While previous research has largely focused on static settings, real-world navigation must often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Dillon Loh , Tomasz Bednarz , Xinxing Xia , Frank Guan

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

We present PrismAvatar: a 3D head avatar model which is designed specifically to enable real-time animation and rendering on resource-constrained edge devices, while still enjoying the benefits of neural volumetric rendering at training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Prashant Raina , Felix Taubner , Mathieu Tuli , Eu Wern Teh , Kevin Ferreira

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

Previous Vision-Language-Action models face critical limitations in navigation: scarce, diverse data from labor-intensive collection and static representations that fail to capture temporal dynamics and physical laws. We propose NavDreamer,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Tianyue Wu , Congyu Wang , Zhiyang Liu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

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

We present pure-transformer based models for video classification, drawing upon the recent success of such models in image classification. Our model extracts spatio-temporal tokens from the input video, which are then encoded by a series of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Anurag Arnab , Mostafa Dehghani , Georg Heigold , Chen Sun , Mario Lučić , Cordelia Schmid

We introduce a method for generating realistic pedestrian trajectories and full-body animations that can be controlled to meet user-defined goals. We draw on recent advances in guided diffusion modeling to achieve test-time controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Davis Rempe , Zhengyi Luo , Xue Bin Peng , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Karsten Kreis , Sanja Fidler , Or Litany

Real world visual navigation requires robots to operate in unfamiliar, human-occupied dynamic environments. Navigation around humans is especially difficult because it requires anticipating their future motion, which can be quite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Varun Tolani , Somil Bansal , Aleksandra Faust , Claire Tomlin

Recent advances in video diffusion models have significantly improved character animation techniques. However, current approaches rely on basic structural conditions such as DWPose or SMPL-X to animate character images, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muyao Niu , Mingdeng Cao , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Mingze Ma , Jiancheng Zhao , Yanhong Zeng , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Huan Ling , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zhi-Hao Lin , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

With the recent surge in popularity of AR/VR applications, realistic and accurate control of 3D full-body avatars has become a highly demanded feature. A particular challenge is that only a sparse tracking signal is available from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yuming Du , Robin Kips , Albert Pumarola , Sebastian Starke , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

We present a system for learning full-body neural avatars, i.e. deep networks that produce full-body renderings of a person for varying body pose and camera position. Our system takes the middle path between the classical graphics pipeline…

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Recently, diffusion models have shown their impressive ability in visual generation tasks. Besides static images, more and more research attentions have been drawn to the generation of realistic videos. The video generation not only has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yucheng Xing , Jinxing Yin , Xiaodong Liu

In this work, we present Conditional Adversarial Latent Models (CALM), an approach for generating diverse and directable behaviors for user-controlled interactive virtual characters. Using imitation learning, CALM learns a representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Chen Tessler , Yoni Kasten , Yunrong Guo , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Most motion deblurring algorithms rely on spatial-domain convolution models, which struggle with the complex, non-linear blur arising from camera shake and object motion. In contrast, we propose a novel single-image deblurring approach that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Wang Pang , Zhihao Zhan , Xiang Zhu , Yechao Bai

Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

Modeling animatable human avatars from monocular or multi-view videos has been widely studied, with recent approaches leveraging neural radiance fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieving impressive results in novel-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yahui Li , Zhi Zeng , Liming Pang , Guixuan Zhang , Shuwu Zhang