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Learning generic skills for humanoid robots interacting with 3D scenes by mimicking human data is a key research challenge with significant implications for robotics and real-world applications. However, existing methodologies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yun Liu , Bowen Yang , Licheng Zhong , He Wang , Li Yi

Human head detection, keypoint estimation, and 3D head model fitting are essential tasks with many applications. However, traditional real-world datasets often suffer from bias, privacy, and ethical concerns, and they have been recorded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Orest Kupyn , Eugene Khvedchenia , Christian Rupprecht

Enabling humanoid robots to perform agile and adaptive interactive tasks has long been a core challenge in robotics. Current approaches are bottlenecked by either the scarcity of realistic interaction data or the need for meticulous,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yinhuai Wang , Qihan Zhao , Yuen Fui Lau , Runyi Yu , Hok Wai Tsui , Qifeng Chen , Jingbo Wang , Jiangmiao Pang , Ping Tan

As very large studies of complex neuroimaging phenotypes become more common, human quality assessment of MRI-derived data remains one of the last major bottlenecks. Few attempts have so far been made to address this issue with machine…

This paper presents an automated method for 3D character skeleton extraction that can be applied for generic 3D shapes. Our work is motivated by the skeleton-based prior work on automatic rigging focused on skeleton extraction and can…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Yong Khoo , Sang Chung

Drawing is a fun and intuitive way to create a character, accessible even to small children. However, animating 2D figure drawings is a much more challenging task, requiring specialized tools and skills. Bringing 2D figures to 3D so they…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Harrison Jesse Smith , Nicky He , Yuting Ye

Human image animation involves generating videos from a character photo, allowing user control and unlocking the potential for video and movie production. While recent approaches yield impressive results using high-quality training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Youqing Fang , Yuwei Guo , Wenran Liu , Jing Tan , Kai Chen , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

Humanoid robots require diverse motor skills to integrate into complex environments, but bridging the kinematic and dynamic embodiment gap from human data remains a major bottleneck. We demonstrate through Hessian analysis that traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qingrui Zhao , Kaiyue Yang , Xiyu Wang , Shiqi Zhao , Yi Lu , Xinfang Zhang , Qiu Shen , Xiao-Xiao Long , Xun Cao

We present RigAnything, a novel autoregressive transformer-based model, which makes 3D assets rig-ready by probabilistically generating joints and skeleton topologies and assigning skinning weights in a template-free manner. Unlike most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Isabella Liu , Zhan Xu , Wang Yifan , Hao Tan , Zexiang Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Hao Su , Zifan Shi

We present HumanEdit, a high-quality, human-rewarded dataset specifically designed for instruction-guided image editing, enabling precise and diverse image manipulations through open-form language instructions. Previous large-scale editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jinbin Bai , Wei Chow , Ling Yang , Xiangtai Li , Juncheng Li , Hanwang Zhang , Shuicheng Yan

Rigging and skinning clothed human avatars is a challenging task and traditionally requires a lot of manual work and expertise. Recent methods addressing it either generalize across different characters or focus on capturing the dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhouyingcheng Liao , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Despite exhibiting impressive performance in synthesizing lifelike personalized 3D talking heads, prevailing methods based on radiance fields suffer from high demands for training data and time for each new identity. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

Reconstructing multi-human body mesh from a single monocular image is an important but challenging computer vision problem. In addition to the individual body mesh models, we need to estimate relative 3D positions among subjects to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Chenyan Wu , Yandong Li , Xianfeng Tang , James Wang

The creation of high-fidelity computer-generated (CG) characters used in film and gaming requires intensive manual labor and a comprehensive set of facial assets to be captured with complex hardware, resulting in high cost and long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jiaman Li , Zhengfei Kuang , Yajie Zhao , Mingming He , Karl Bladin , Hao Li

Controllable human image generation (HIG) has numerous real-life applications. State-of-the-art solutions, such as ControlNet and T2I-Adapter, introduce an additional learnable branch on top of the frozen pre-trained stable diffusion (SD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xuan Ju , Ailing Zeng , Chenchen Zhao , Jianan Wang , Lei Zhang , Qiang Xu

State-of-the-art rigging methods typically assume a predefined canonical rest pose. However, this assumption does not hold for dynamic mesh sequences such as DyMesh or DT4D, where no canonical T-pose is available. When applied independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ruipeng Wang , Langkun Zhong , Miaowei Wang

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training humanoid robots to both walk and manipulate, but it requires a large number of demonstrations, which are time-intensive and difficult to collect via teleoperation. Existing…

From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot learning datasets and benchmarks mainly focus on stationary…

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to learn a 3D face model using a joint-based face rig and a neural skinning network. Thanks to the joint-based representation, our model enjoys some significant advantages over prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Noranart Vesdapunt , Mitch Rundle , HsiangTao Wu , Baoyuan Wang