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Simulation is essential for autonomous driving, yet current frameworks often model vehicles as rigid assets and fail to capture part-level articulation. With perception algorithms increasingly leveraging dynamics such as wheel steering or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shiyao Qian , Yuan Ren , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu

The fidelity of relighting is bounded by both geometry and appearance representations. For geometry, both mesh and volumetric approaches have difficulty modeling intricate structures like 3D hair geometry. For appearance, existing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shunsuke Saito , Gabriel Schwartz , Tomas Simon , Junxuan Li , Giljoo Nam

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

Reconstructing the human body from single-view videos plays a pivotal role in the virtual reality domain. One prevalent application scenario necessitates the rapid reconstruction of high-fidelity 3D digital humans while simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mingwei Li , Jiachen Tao , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Given the growing need for automatic 3D content creation pipelines, various 3D representations have been studied to generate 3D objects from a single image. Due to its superior rendering efficiency, 3D Gaussian splatting-based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Dejia Xu , Ye Yuan , Morteza Mardani , Sifei Liu , Jiaming Song , Zhangyang Wang , Arash Vahdat

In the recent years, there has been a significant improvement in the quality of samples produced by (deep) generative models such as variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial networks. However, the representation capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Shady Abu Hussein , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Creating 3D head avatars is a significant yet challenging task for many applicated scenarios. Previous studies have set out to learn 3D human head generative models using massive 2D image data. Although these models are highly generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yiyu Zhuang , Yuxiao He , Jiawei Zhang , Yanwen Wang , Jiahe Zhu , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Building articulated objects is a key challenge in computer vision. Existing methods often fail to effectively integrate information across different object states, limiting the accuracy of part-mesh reconstruction and part dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yu Liu , Baoxiong Jia , Ruijie Lu , Junfeng Ni , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

Creating a high-fidelity, animatable 3D full-body avatar from a single image is a challenging task due to the diverse appearance and poses of humans and the limited availability of high-quality training data. To achieve fast and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yiyu Zhuang , Jiaxi Lv , Hao Wen , Qing Shuai , Ailing Zeng , Hao Zhu , Shifeng Chen , Yujiu Yang , Xun Cao , Wei Liu

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has been recognized as a pioneering technique in scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Recent work on reconstructing the 3D human body using 3DGS attempts to leverage prior information on human pose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hao Tian , Rui Liu , Wen Shen , Yilong Hu , Zhihao Zheng , Xiaolin Qin

3D object generation from a single image involves estimating the full 3D geometry and texture of unseen views from an unposed RGB image captured in the wild. Accurately reconstructing an object's complete 3D structure and texture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hritam Basak , Hadi Tabatabaee , Shreekant Gayaka , Ming-Feng Li , Xin Yang , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Arnie Sen , Min Sun , Zhaozheng Yin

Recent advancements in Gaussian Splatting have enabled increasingly accurate reconstruction of photorealistic head avatars, opening the door to numerous applications in visual effects, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. This, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kelian Baert , Mae Younes , Francois Bourel , Marc Christie , Adnane Boukhayma

We introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shengjie Ma , Yanlin Weng , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

The creation of high-fidelity, digital versions of human heads is an important stepping stone in the process of further integrating virtual components into our everyday lives. Constructing such avatars is a challenging research problem, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Simon Giebenhain , Tobias Kirschstein , Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated excellent ability in small-scale 3D surface reconstruction. However, extending 3DGS to large-scale scenes remains a significant challenge. To address this gap, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 YuanZheng Wu , Jin Liu , Shunping Ji

Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 SeungJun Moon , Hah Min Lew , Seungeun Lee , Ji-Su Kang , Gyeong-Moon Park

The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu

3D human generation is an important problem with a wide range of applications in computer vision and graphics. Despite recent progress in generative AI such as diffusion models or rendering methods like Neural Radiance Fields or Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu