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Driving a high-quality and photorealistic full-body virtual human from a few RGB cameras is a challenging problem that has become increasingly relevant with emerging virtual reality technologies. A promising solution to democratize such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Anton Zubekhin , Heming Zhu , Paulo Gotardo , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Establishing mathematical models is a ubiquitous and effective method to understand the objective world. Due to complex physiological structures and dynamic behaviors, mathematical representation of the human face is an especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Liping Zhang , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Xiaoli Dong , Linjun Sun , Xin Ning , Jian Xu , Hong Qin

Color names based image representation is successfully used in person re-identification, due to the advantages of being compact, intuitively understandable as well as being robust to photometric variance. However, there exists the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Yang Yang , Shengcai Liao , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Generative models aim to learn the distribution of observed data by generating new instances. With the advent of neural networks, deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Yinghao Xu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao , Yujun Shen

The success of various applications including robotics, digital content creation, and visualization demand a structured and abstract representation of the 3D world from limited sensor data. Inspired by the nature of human perception of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chuhang Zou , Ersin Yumer , Jimei Yang , Duygu Ceylan , Derek Hoiem

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Personalized 3D avatars require an animatable representation of digital humans. Doing so instantly from monocular videos offers scalability to broad class of users and wide-scale applications. In this paper, we present a fast, simple, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Pramish Paudel , Anubhav Khanal , Ajad Chhatkuli , Danda Pani Paudel , Jyoti Tandukar

Leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion models and score distillation sampling (SDS), recent methods have shown promising results for text-to-3D avatar generation. However, generating high-quality 3D avatars capable of expressive animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yukun Huang , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha , Lei Zhang , Xihui Liu

Simulation is essential for autonomous driving, yet current frameworks often model vehicles as rigid assets and fail to capture part-level articulation. With perception algorithms increasingly leveraging dynamics such as wheel steering or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shiyao Qian , Yuan Ren , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

In this paper, we explore a reconstruction and reenactment separated framework for 3D Gaussians head, which requires only a single portrait image as input to generate controllable avatar. Specifically, we developed a large-scale one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhiling Ye , Cong Zhou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Weihong Deng , Quan Lu

Human video generation task has gained significant attention with the advancement of deep generative models. Generating realistic videos with human movements is challenging in nature, due to the intricacies of human body topology and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengyi Shan , Mohammad Farazi , Wenhui Zhu , Yanxi Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

We introduce GoMAvatar, a novel approach for real-time, memory-efficient, high-quality animatable human modeling. GoMAvatar takes as input a single monocular video to create a digital avatar capable of re-articulation in new poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Jing Wen , Xiaoming Zhao , Zhongzheng Ren , Alexander G. Schwing , Shenlong Wang

Facial expression recognition is a challenging task due to two major problems: the presence of inter-subject variations in facial expression recognition dataset and impure expressions posed by human subjects. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Kamran Ali , Ilkin Isler , Charles Hughes

Facial composites are graphical representations of an eyewitness's memory of a face. Many digital systems are available for the creation of such composites but are either unable to reproduce features unless previously designed or do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Nicola Zaltron , Luisa Zurlo , Sebastian Risi

Reconstructing photorealistic and topology-aware human avatars from monocular videos remains a significant challenge in the fields of computer vision and graphics. While existing 3D human avatar modeling approaches can effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuze Su , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Liang Wang

Learned 3D representations of human faces are useful for computer vision problems such as 3D face tracking and reconstruction from images, as well as graphics applications such as character generation and animation. Traditional models learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Anurag Ranjan , Timo Bolkart , Soubhik Sanyal , Michael J. Black

We present PEGASUS, a method for constructing a personalized generative 3D face avatar from monocular video sources. Our generative 3D avatar enables disentangled controls to selectively alter the facial attributes (e.g., hair or nose)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hyunsoo Cha , Byungjun Kim , Hanbyul Joo

Recent progress in neural rendering has brought forth pioneering methods, such as NeRF and Gaussian Splatting, which revolutionize view rendering across various domains like AR/VR, gaming, and content creation. While these methods excel at…