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Large-scale diffusion generative models are greatly simplifying image, video and 3D asset creation from user-provided text prompts and images. However, the challenging problem of text-to-4D dynamic 3D scene generation with diffusion…

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Analyzing human motion is a challenging task with a wide variety of applications in computer vision and in graphics. One such application, of particular importance in computer animation, is the retargeting of motion from one performer to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Kfir Aberman , Rundi Wu , Dani Lischinski , Baoquan Chen , Daniel Cohen-Or

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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The creation of a parameterized stylized character involves careful selection of numerous parameters, also known as the "avatar vectors" that can be interpreted by the avatar engine. Existing unsupervised avatar vector estimation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shizun Wang , Weihong Zeng , Xu Wang , Hao Yang , Li Chen , Yi Yuan , Yunzhao Zeng , Min Zheng , Chuang Zhang , Ming Wu

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

Estimating 3D full-body avatars from AR/VR devices is essential for creating immersive experiences in AR/VR applications. This task is challenging due to the limited input from Head Mounted Devices, which capture only sparse observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Han Feng , Wenchao Ma , Quankai Gao , Xianwei Zheng , Nan Xue , Huijuan Xu

Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

Motion retargeting seeks to faithfully replicate the spatio-temporal motion characteristics of a source character onto a target character with a different body shape. Apart from motion semantics preservation, ensuring geometric plausibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiaohang Yang , Qing Wang , Jiahao Yang , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

In this work, we systematically study the problem of personalized text-to-image generation, where the output image is expected to portray information about specific human subjects. E.g., generating images of oneself appearing at imaginative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Panos Achlioptas , Alexandros Benetatos , Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Dimitris Skourtis

Visual Autoregressive modeling (VAR) has emerged as a highly efficient alternative to diffusion-based frameworks, achieving comparable synthesis quality. However, as this paradigm extends to Spacetime Autoregressive modeling (STAR) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungwoong Yune , Suheon Jeong , Joo-Young Kim

Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We present Spanning Tree Autoregressive (STAR) modeling, which can incorporate prior knowledge of images, such as center bias and locality, to maintain sampling performance while also providing sufficiently flexible sequence orders to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Sangkyu Lee , Changho Lee , Janghoon Han , Hosung Song , Tackgeun You , Hwasup Lim , Stanley Jungkyu Choi , Honglak Lee , Youngjae Yu

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Transferring human motion and appearance between videos of human actors remains one of the key challenges in Computer Vision. Despite the advances from recent image-to-image translation approaches, there are several transferring contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Rafael Azevedo , Guilherme Torres , Erickson R. Nascimento

In this paper, we propose a novel learning approach for feed-forward one-shot 4D head avatar synthesis. Different from existing methods that often learn from reconstructing monocular videos guided by 3DMM, we employ pseudo multi-view videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yu Deng , Duomin Wang , Baoyuan Wang

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

High-quality, animatable 3D human avatar reconstruction from monocular videos offers significant potential for reducing reliance on complex hardware, making it highly practical for applications in game development, augmented reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xia Yuan , Hai Yuan , Wenyi Ge , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Guanyu Xing

We present a learning method for predicting animation skeletons for input 3D models of articulated characters. In contrast to previous approaches that fit pre-defined skeleton templates or predict fixed sets of joints, our method produces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Zhan Xu , Yang Zhou , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Karan Singh

The cognitive system for human action and behavior has evolved into a deep learning regime, and especially the advent of Graph Convolution Networks has transformed the field in recent years. However, previous works have mainly focused on…

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