English
Related papers

Related papers: PAV: Personalized Head Avatar from Unstructured Vi…

200 papers

We present dynamic neural radiance fields for modeling the appearance and dynamics of a human face. Digitally modeling and reconstructing a talking human is a key building-block for a variety of applications. Especially, for telepresence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guy Gafni , Justus Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Matthias Nießner

We propose a method for synthesizing photo-realistic digital avatars from only one portrait as the reference. Given a portrait, our method synthesizes a coarse talking head video using driving keypoints features. And with the coarse video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Shaoxu Li

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

In recent advancements in novel view synthesis, generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based methods applied to human subjects have shown remarkable results in generating novel views from few images. However, this generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Arnab Dey , Di Yang , Antitza Dantcheva , Jean Martinet

As recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have enabled high-fidelity 3D face reconstruction and novel view synthesis, its manipulation also became an essential task in 3D vision. However, existing manipulation methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Daejin Kim , Min-Jung Kim , Jaegul Choo

The problem of modeling an animatable 3D human head avatar under light-weight setups is of significant importance but has not been well solved. Existing 3D representations either perform well in the realism of portrait images synthesis or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaochen Zhao , Lizhen Wang , Jingxiang Sun , Hongwen Zhang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Conversation is an essential component of virtual avatar activities in the metaverse. With the development of natural language processing, textual and vocal conversation generation has achieved a significant breakthrough. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yichao Yan , Zanwei Zhou , Zi Wang , Jingnan Gao , Xiaokang Yang

We present Neural Articulated Radiance Field (NARF), a novel deformable 3D representation for articulated objects learned from images. While recent advances in 3D implicit representation have made it possible to learn models of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Xiao Sun , Stephen Lin , Tatsuya Harada

An increasingly common approach for creating photo-realistic digital avatars is through the use of volumetric neural fields. The original neural radiance field (NeRF) allowed for impressive novel view synthesis of static heads when trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yingyan Xu , Prashanth Chandran , Sebastian Weiss , Markus Gross , Gaspard Zoss , Derek Bradley

We propose a parametric model that maps free-view images into a vector space of coded facial shape, expression and appearance with a neural radiance field, namely Morphable Facial NeRF. Specifically, MoFaNeRF takes the coded facial shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yiyu Zhuang , Hao Zhu , Xusen Sun , Xun Cao

The generation of a virtual digital avatar is a crucial research topic in the field of computer vision. Many existing works utilize Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to address this issue and have achieved impressive results. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shengbo Gu , Yu-Kun Qiu , Yu-Ming Tang , Ancong Wu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Animating high-fidelity video portrait with speech audio is crucial for virtual reality and digital entertainment. While most previous studies rely on accurate explicit structural information, recent works explore the implicit scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Xian Liu , Yinghao Xu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Wayne Wu , Bolei Zhou

We propose a pipeline to generate Neural Radiance Fields~(NeRF) of an object or a scene of a specific class, conditioned on a single input image. This is a challenging task, as training NeRF requires multiple views of the same scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Shengqu Cai , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

We present a novel method to learn Personalized Implicit Neural Avatars (PINA) from a short RGB-D sequence. This allows non-expert users to create a detailed and personalized virtual copy of themselves, which can be animated with realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Zijian Dong , Chen Guo , Jie Song , Xu Chen , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges

It is extremely challenging to create an animatable clothed human avatar from RGB videos, especially for loose clothes due to the difficulties in motion modeling. To address this problem, we introduce a novel representation on the basis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zerong Zheng , Han Huang , Tao Yu , Hongwen Zhang , Yandong Guo , Yebin Liu

High-fidelity 4D dynamic facial avatar reconstruction from monocular video is a critical yet challenging task, driven by increasing demands for immersive virtual human applications. While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have advanced scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhe Chang , Haodong Jin , Ying Sun , Yan Song , Hui Yu

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Existing approaches to system identification (estimating the physical parameters of an object) from videos assume known object geometries. This precludes their applicability in a vast majority of scenes where object geometries are complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xuan Li , Yi-Ling Qiao , Peter Yichen Chen , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Ming Lin , Chenfanfu Jiang , Chuang Gan

Adopting Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to long-duration dynamic sequences has been challenging. Existing methods struggle to balance between quality and storage size and encounter difficulties with complex scene changes such as topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

In this paper, we aim at synthesizing a free-viewpoint video of an arbitrary human performance using sparse multi-view cameras. Recently, several works have addressed this problem by learning person-specific neural radiance fields (NeRF) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Youngjoong Kwon , Dahun Kim , Duygu Ceylan , Henry Fuchs