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We present HandAvatar, a novel representation for hand animation and rendering, which can generate smoothly compositional geometry and self-occlusion-aware texture. Specifically, we first develop a MANO-HD model as a high-resolution mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xingyu Chen , Baoyuan Wang , Heung-Yeung Shum

Strand-level hair geometry reconstruction is a fundamental problem in virtual human modeling and the digitization of hairstyles. However, existing methods still suffer from a significant trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Da Li , Dominik Engel , Deng Luo , Ivan Viola

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jian Shu , Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Junlong Ren , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

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

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

We present a novel approach for tracking multiple people in video. Unlike past approaches which employ 2D representations, we focus on using 3D representations of people, located in three-dimensional space. To this end, we develop a method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Georgios Pavlakos , Angjoo Kanazawa , Jitendra Malik

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Neural Representations for Videos (NeRV) has emerged as a promising implicit neural representation (INR) approach for video analysis, which represents videos as neural networks with frame indexes as inputs. However, NeRV-based methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jialong Guo , Ke liu , Jiangchao Yao , Zhihua Wang , Jiajun Bu , Haishuai Wang

We present a novel method to learn temporally consistent 3D reconstruction of clothed people from a monocular video. Recent methods for 3D human reconstruction from monocular video using volumetric, implicit or parametric human shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Akin Caliskan , Armin Mustafa , Adrian Hilton

Recently, the reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D head models from static portrait image has made great progress. However, most methods require multi-view or multi-illumination information, which therefore put forward high requirements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xueying Wang , Juyong Zhang

We present SentiAvatar, a framework for building expressive interactive 3D digital humans, and use it to create SuSu, a virtual character that speaks, gestures, and emotes in real time. Achieving such a system remains challenging, as it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chuhao Jin , Rui Zhang , Qingzhe Gao , Haoyu Shi , Dayu Wu , Yichen Jiang , Yihan Wu , Ruihua Song

We propose an approach for optimizing high-quality clothed human body shapes in minutes, using multi-view posed images. While traditional neural rendering methods struggle to disentangle geometry and appearance using only rendering loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Lixiang Lin , Songyou Peng , Qijun Gan , Jianke Zhu

Representing human performance at high-fidelity is an essential building block in diverse applications, such as film production, computer games or videoconferencing. To close the gap to production-level quality, we introduce HumanRF, a 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mustafa Işık , Martin Rünz , Markos Georgopoulos , Taras Khakhulin , Jonathan Starck , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner

Controllability, generalizability and efficiency are the major objectives of constructing face avatars represented by neural implicit field. However, existing methods have not managed to accommodate the three requirements simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Zhen Lei , Lei Zhang

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev

We present a method for generating a full 360{\deg} orbit video around a person from a single input image. Existing methods typically adapt image-based diffusion models for multi-view synthesis, but yield inconsistent results across views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Keito Suzuki , Kunyao Chen , Lei Wang , Bang Du , Runfa Blark Li , Peng Liu , Ning Bi , Truong Nguyen

The ability to create realistic, animatable and relightable head avatars from casual video sequences would open up wide ranging applications in communication and entertainment. Current methods either build on explicit 3D morphable meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yufeng Zheng , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Capturing the dynamically deforming 3D shape of clothed human is essential for numerous applications, including VR/AR, autonomous driving, and human-computer interaction. Existing methods either require a highly specialized capturing setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Chen Guo , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Though significant progress in human pose and shape recovery from monocular RGB images has been made in recent years, obtaining 3D human motion with high accuracy and temporal consistency from videos remains challenging. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ming Chen , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero