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The ability to generate diverse 3D articulated head avatars is vital to a plethora of applications, including augmented reality, cinematography, and education. Recent work on text-guided 3D object generation has shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alexander W. Bergman , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

This work presents STAR, the first end-to-end speech-to-audio generation framework, designed to enhance efficiency and address error propagation inherent in cascaded systems. Unlike prior approaches relying on text or vision, STAR leverages…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zeyu Xie , Xuenan Xu , Yixuan Li , Mengyue Wu , Yuexian Zou

Powered by large-scale text-to-image generation models, text-to-3D avatar generation has made promising progress. However, most methods fail to produce photorealistic results, limited by imprecise geometry and low-quality appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuanyou Xu , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

The generation of high-quality, animatable 3D head avatars from text has enormous potential in content creation applications such as games, movies, and embodied virtual assistants. Current text-to-3D generation methods typically combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yiqian Wu , Malte Prinzler , Xiaogang Jin , Siyu Tang

This paper presents a method that can quickly adapt dynamic 3D avatars to arbitrary text descriptions of novel styles. Among existing approaches for avatar stylization, direct optimization methods can produce excellent results for arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Gabriel Schwartz , Yuting Ye , Stephen Lombardi , Lei Xiao

While depth cameras and inertial sensors have been frequently leveraged for human action recognition, these sensing modalities are impractical in many scenarios where cost or environmental constraints prohibit their use. As such, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-27 William McNally , Alexander Wong , John McPhee

Generating 3D human models directly from text helps reduce the cost and time of character modeling. However, achieving multi-attribute controllable and realistic 3D human avatar generation is still challenging due to feature coupling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Chaoqun Gong , Yuqin Dai , Ronghui Li , Achun Bao , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Yachao Zhang , Xiu Li

Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

In action recognition, although the combination of spatio-temporal videos and skeleton features can improve the recognition performance, a separate model and balancing feature representation for cross-modal data are required. To solve these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Dasom Ahn , Sangwon Kim , Hyunsu Hong , Byoung Chul Ko

Due to the increasing demand in films and games, synthesizing 3D avatar animation has attracted much attention recently. In this work, we present a production-ready text/speech-driven full-body animation synthesis system. Given the text and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wenlin Zhuang , Jinwei Qi , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Ping Tan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have led to significant improvements in the generation and animation of 4D full-body human-object interactions (HOI). Nevertheless, existing methods primarily focus on SMPL-based motion generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yukang Cao , Liang Pan , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Ziwei Liu

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

Face reenactment methods attempt to restore and re-animate portrait videos as realistically as possible. Existing methods face a dilemma in quality versus controllability: 2D GAN-based methods achieve higher image quality but suffer in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Yuxiang Zhang , Hongwen Zhang , Tao Yu , Yebin Liu

Unsupervised generation of 3D-aware clothed humans with various appearances and controllable geometries is important for creating virtual human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

We introduce Drag4D, an interactive framework that integrates object motion control within text-driven 3D scene generation. This framework enables users to define 3D trajectories for the 3D objects generated from a single image, seamlessly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Minjun Kang , Inkyu Shin , Taeyeop Lee , In So Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

Reconstructing dynamic humans interacting with real-world environments from monocular videos is an important and challenging task. Despite considerable progress in 4D neural rendering, existing approaches either model dynamic scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

Self-supervised pretraining methods with masked prediction demonstrate remarkable within-dataset performance in skeleton-based action recognition. However, we show that, unlike contrastive learning approaches, they do not produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Soroush Mehraban , Mohammad Javad Rajabi , Andrea Iaboni , Babak Taati

We present Avatar4D, a real-world transferable pipeline for generating customizable synthetic human motion datasets tailored to domain-specific applications. Unlike prior works, which focus on general, everyday motions and offer limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jerrin Bright , Zhibo Wang , Dmytro Klepachevskyi , Yuhao Chen , Sirisha Rambhatla , David Clausi , John Zelek