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In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) remains an attractive solution for real-time rendering of complex light transport effects such as glossy global illumination. After precomputation, we can relight the scene with new environment maps while…

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Reconstructing 3D clothed human avatars from single images is a challenging task, especially when encountering complex poses and loose clothing. Current methods exhibit limitations in performance, largely attributable to their dependence on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zechuan Zhang , Li Sun , Zongxin Yang , Ling Chen , Yi Yang

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

Recent 3D-aware head generative models based on 3D Gaussian Splatting achieve real-time, photorealistic and view-consistent head synthesis. However, a fundamental limitation persists: the deep entanglement of illumination and intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yating Wang , Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , Ran Yi , Boyao Zhou , Yipengjing Sun , Hongyu Liu , Yinuo Wang , Lizhuang Ma

High-fidelity head avatar reconstruction plays a crucial role in AR/VR, gaming, and multimedia content creation. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated effectiveness in modeling complex geometry with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shikun Zhang , Cunjian Chen , Yiqun Wang , Qiuhong Ke , Yong Li

We have recently seen great progress in building photorealistic animatable full-body codec avatars, but generating high-fidelity animation of clothing is still difficult. To address these difficulties, we propose a method to build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Donglai Xiang , Fabian Prada , Timur Bagautdinov , Weipeng Xu , Yuan Dong , He Wen , Jessica Hodgins , Chenglei Wu

This paper aims to introduce 3D Gaussian for efficient, expressive, and editable digital avatar generation. This task faces two major challenges: (1) The unstructured nature of 3D Gaussian makes it incompatible with current generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Yunhui Liu , Xingdong Sheng , Xiaokang Yang

We propose GRGS, a generalizable and relightable 3D Gaussian framework for high-fidelity human novel view synthesis under diverse lighting conditions. Unlike existing methods that rely on per-character optimization or ignore physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yipengjing Sun , Shengping Zhang , Chenyang Wang , Shunyuan Zheng , Zonglin Li , Xiangyang Ji

Our goal is to efficiently learn personalized animatable 3D head avatars from videos that are geometrically accurate, realistic, relightable, and compatible with current rendering systems. While 3D meshes enable efficient processing and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shrisha Bharadwaj , Yufeng Zheng , Otmar Hilliges , Michael J. Black , Victoria Fernandez-Abrevaya

Despite much progress, achieving real-time high-fidelity head avatar animation is still difficult and existing methods have to trade-off between speed and quality. 3DMM based methods often fail to model non-facial structures such as…

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We present the first neural relighting approach for rendering high-fidelity personalized hands that can be animated in real-time under novel illumination. Our approach adopts a teacher-student framework, where the teacher learns appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shun Iwase , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Stephen Lombardi , Timur Bagautdinov , Rohan Joshi , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Creating and customizing a 3D clothed avatar from textual descriptions is a critical and challenging task. Traditional methods often treat the human body and clothing as inseparable, limiting users' ability to freely mix and match garments.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jia Gong , Shenyu Ji , Lin Geng Foo , Kang Chen , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Generating animatable and editable 3D head avatars is essential for various applications in computer vision and graphics. Traditional 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs), often using implicit fields like Neural Radiance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guohao Li , Hongyu Yang , Yifang Men , Di Huang , Weixin Li , Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang

We present IntrinsicAvatar, a novel approach to recovering the intrinsic properties of clothed human avatars including geometry, albedo, material, and environment lighting from only monocular videos. Recent advancements in human-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shaofei Wang , Božidar Antić , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

2D images are observations of the 3D physical world depicted with the geometry, material, and illumination components. Recovering these underlying intrinsic components from 2D images, also known as inverse rendering, usually requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt

We present PRTGaussian, a realtime relightable novel-view synthesis method made possible by combining 3D Gaussians and Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT). By fitting relightable Gaussians to multi-view OLAT data, our method enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Libo Zhang , Yuxuan Han , Wenbin Lin , Jingwang Ling , Feng Xu

We introduce a novel representation for efficient classical rendering of photorealistic 3D face avatars. Leveraging recent advances in radiance fields anchored to parametric face models, our approach achieves controllable volumetric…

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