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With the explosive growth of 3D content creation, there is an increasing demand for automatically converting static 3D models into articulation-ready versions that support realistic animation. Traditional approaches rely heavily on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chaoyue Song , Jianfeng Zhang , Xiu Li , Fan Yang , Yiwen Chen , Zhongcong Xu , Jun Hao Liew , Xiaoyang Guo , Fayao Liu , Jiashi Feng , Guosheng Lin

For the last decades, the concern of producing convincing facial animation has garnered great interest, that has only been accelerating with the recent explosion of 3D content in both entertainment and professional activities. The use of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Nicolas Stoiber

Animating various character drawings is an engaging visual content creation task. Given a single character drawing, existing animation methods are limited to flat 2D motions and thus lack 3D effects. An alternative solution is to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jie Zhou , Chufeng Xiao , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

Constructing and animating humans is an important component for building virtual worlds in a wide variety of applications such as virtual reality or robotics testing in simulation. As there are exponentially many variations of humans with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ze Yang , Shenlong Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Zeng Huang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Xinchen Yan , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

We present a learning method for predicting animation skeletons for input 3D models of articulated characters. In contrast to previous approaches that fit pre-defined skeleton templates or predict fixed sets of joints, our method produces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Zhan Xu , Yang Zhou , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Karan Singh

Facial animation is one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics, and it is often solved using linear heuristics like blend-shape rigging. More expressive approaches like physical simulation have emerged, but these methods are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yeara Kozlov , Hongyi Xu , Moritz Bächer , Derek Bradley , Markus Gross , Thabo Beeler

Editable 3D-aware generation, which supports user-interacted editing, has witnessed rapid development recently. However, existing editable 3D GANs either fail to achieve high-accuracy local editing or suffer from huge computational costs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Fan Yang , Tianyi Chen , Xiaosheng He , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Si Wu , Guosheng Lin

Existing methods for image-to-3D avatar generation struggle to produce highly detailed, animation-ready avatars suitable for real-world applications. We introduce AdaHuman, a novel framework that generates high-fidelity animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yangyi Huang , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

Although human reconstruction typically results in human-specific avatars, recent 3D scene reconstruction techniques utilizing pixel-aligned features show promise in generalizing to new scenes. Applying these techniques to human avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Zhi Hou , Dacheng Tao

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

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

Generalizable rendering of an animatable human avatar from sparse inputs relies on data priors and inductive biases extracted from training on large data to avoid scene-specific optimization and to enable fast reconstruction. This raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jing Wen , Alexander G. Schwing , Shenlong Wang

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Create an articulated and realistic human 3D model is a complicated task, not only get a model with the right body proportions but also to the whole process of rigging the model with correct articulation points and vertices weights. Having…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jordi Sanchez-Riera , Aniol Civit , Marta Altarriba , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Coordinate-based volumetric representations have the potential to generate photo-realistic virtual avatars from images. However, virtual avatars also need to be controllable even to a novel pose that may not have been observed. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruilong Li , Julian Tanke , Minh Vo , Michael Zollhofer , Jurgen Gall , Angjoo Kanazawa , Christoph Lassner

Neural implicit fields are powerful for representing 3D scenes and generating high-quality novel views, but it remains challenging to use such implicit representations for creating a 3D human avatar with a specific identity and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ruixiang Jiang , Can Wang , Jingbo Zhang , Menglei Chai , Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

We present En3D, an enhanced generative scheme for sculpting high-quality 3D human avatars. Unlike previous works that rely on scarce 3D datasets or limited 2D collections with imbalanced viewing angles and imprecise pose priors, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Yifang Men , Biwen Lei , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Zhouhui Lian , Xuansong Xie

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

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