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Speech-driven talking heads have recently emerged and enable interactive avatars. However, real-world applications are limited, as current methods achieve high visual fidelity but slow or fast yet temporally unstable. Diffusion methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Madhav Agarwal , Mingtian Zhang , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Steven McDonagh

We study the problem of creating high-fidelity and animatable 3D avatars from only textual descriptions. Existing text-to-avatar methods are either limited to static avatars which cannot be animated or struggle to generate animatable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jianfeng Zhang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Huichao Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Chenxu Zhang , Yi Yang , Jiashi Feng

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking avatar methods have recently gained attention for their high-fidelity, vivid, and expressive results. However, their slow inference speed limits practical applications. Despite the development of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tianyun Zhong , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Gaojie Lin , Jiaqi Yang , Zhou Zhao

Existing methods like Neural Radiation Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made significant strides in facial attribute control such as facial animation and components editing, yet they struggle with fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Pinxin Liu , Luchuan Song , Daoan Zhang , Hang Hua , Yunlong Tang , Huaijin Tu , Jiebo Luo , Chenliang Xu

We propose a novel framework for decomposing arbitrarily posed humans into animatable multi-layered 3D human avatars, separating the body and garments. Conventional single-layer reconstruction methods lock clothing to one identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana

The ability to generate virtual environments is crucial for applications ranging from gaming to physical AI domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and industrial AI. Current learning-based 3D reconstruction methods rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Sherwin Bahmani , Tianchang Shen , Jiawei Ren , Jiahui Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Haithem Turki , Andrea Tagliasacchi , David B. Lindell , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Xuanchi Ren

This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tengfei Wang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Jingjing Shen , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Qifeng Chen , Baining Guo

Text-guided 3D human generation has advanced with the development of efficient 3D representations and 2D-lifting methods like Score Distillation Sampling (SDS). However, current methods suffer from prolonged training times and often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zichen Tang , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo , Hongyu Yang

We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or expression generation individually, the joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Junming Chen , Yunfei Liu , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Yu Li , Qifeng Chen

We propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

Creating expressive, diverse and high-quality 3D avatars from highly customized text descriptions and pose guidance is a challenging task, due to the intricacy of modeling and texturing in 3D that ensure details and various styles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Huichao Zhang , Bowen Chen , Hao Yang , Liao Qu , Xu Wang , Li Chen , Chao Long , Feida Zhu , Kang Du , Min Zheng

The creation of high-quality 3D assets is paramount for applications in digital heritage preservation, entertainment, and robotics. Traditionally, this process necessitates skilled professionals and specialized software for the modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shen Chen , Jiale Zhou , Zhongyu Jiang , Tianfang Zhang , Zongkai Wu , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Lei Li

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

In this paper, we introduce a novel text-to-avatar generation method that separately generates the human body and the clothes and allows high-quality animation on the generated avatar. While recent advancements in text-to-avatar generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jionghao Wang , Yuan Liu , Zhiyang Dou , Zhengming Yu , Yongqing Liang , Cheng Lin , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Rong Xie , Li Song

Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image generation has shown encouraging results via large generative models. Due to the scarcity of 3D assets, it is hardly to transfer the success of text-to-image generation to that of text-to-3D generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yiming Chen , Zhiqi Li , Peidong Liu

While there has been significant progress in the field of 3D avatar creation from visual observations, modeling physically plausible dynamics of humans with loose garments remains a challenging problem. Although a few existing works address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Changmin Lee , Jihyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

We introduce DreamPolish, a text-to-3D generation model that excels in producing refined geometry and high-quality textures. In the geometry construction phase, our approach leverages multiple neural representations to enhance the stability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yean Cheng , Ziqi Cai , Ming Ding , Wendi Zheng , Shiyu Huang , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang , Boxin Shi

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

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

The emergence of neural rendering has significantly advanced the rendering quality of 3D human avatars, with the recently popular 3DGS technique enabling real-time performance. However, SMPL-driven 3DGS human avatars still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wangze Xu , Yifan Zhan , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun