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To integrate digital humans into everyday life, there is a strong demand for generating high-quality, fine-grained disentangled 3D avatars that support expressive animation and simulation capabilities, ideally from low-cost textual inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokun Sun , Zhenyu Zhang , Ying Tai , Hao Tang , Zili Yi , Jian Yang

To address the ill-posed problem caused by partial observations in monocular human volumetric capture, we present AvatarCap, a novel framework that introduces animatable avatars into the capture pipeline for high-fidelity reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhe Li , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Chaonan Ji , Yebin Liu

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

Performing facial expression transfer under one-shot setting has been increasing in popularity among research community with a focus on precise control of expressions. Existing techniques showcase compelling results in perceiving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Siddharth Nijhawan , Takuya Yashima , Tamaki Kojima

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang

Speech-driven 3D facial animation seeks to produce lifelike facial expressions that are synchronized with the speech content and its emotional nuances, finding applications in various multimedia fields. However, previous methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yixuan Zhang , Qing Chang , Yuxi Wang , Guang Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Junran Peng

Recent advances in full-head reconstruction have been obtained by optimizing a neural field through differentiable surface or volume rendering to represent a single scene. While these techniques achieve an unprecedented accuracy, they take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Antonio Canela , Pol Caselles , Ibrar Malik , Eduard Ramon , Jaime García , Jordi Sánchez-Riera , Gil Triginer , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

Modern 3D-GANs synthesize geometry and texture by training on large-scale datasets with a consistent structure. Training such models on stylized, artistic data, with often unknown, highly variable geometry, and camera information has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Rameen Abdal , Hsin-Ying Lee , Peihao Zhu , Menglei Chai , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Peter Wonka , Sergey Tulyakov

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Social presence, the feeling of being there with a real person, will fuel the next generation of communication systems driven by digital humans in virtual reality (VR). The best 3D video-realistic VR avatars that minimize the uncanny effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Amin Jourabloo , Baris Gecer , Fernando De la Torre , Jason Saragih , Shih-En Wei , Te-Li Wang , Stephen Lombardi , Danielle Belko , Autumn Trimble , Hernan Badino

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

The remarkable progress in 3D face reconstruction has resulted in high-detail and photorealistic facial representations. Recently, Diffusion Models have revolutionized the capabilities of generative methods by surpassing the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stathis Galanakis , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu

Recent advancements in text-to-image generation have enabled significant progress in zero-shot 3D shape generation. This is achieved by score distillation, a methodology that uses pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models to optimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhenzhen Weng , Zeyu Wang , Serena Yeung

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

Face reenactment aims to generate realistic talking head videos by transferring motion from a driving video to a static source image while preserving the source identity. Although existing methods based on either implicit or explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanci Zhang , Yanli Liu