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Despite recent advancements in neural 3D reconstruction, the dependence on dense multi-view captures restricts their broader applicability. In this work, we propose \textbf{ViewCrafter}, a novel method for synthesizing high-fidelity novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wangbo Yu , Jinbo Xing , Li Yuan , Wenbo Hu , Xiaoyu Li , Zhipeng Huang , Xiangjun Gao , Tien-Tsin Wong , Ying Shan , Yonghong Tian

Telecommunication with photorealistic avatars in virtual or augmented reality is a promising path for achieving authentic face-to-face communication in 3D over remote physical distances. In this work, we present the Pixel Codec Avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Shugao Ma , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Dawei Wang , Yuecheng Li , Fernando De La Torre , Yaser Sheikh

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Over the past years, significant progress has been made in creating photorealistic and drivable 3D avatars solely from videos of real humans. However, a core remaining challenge is the fine-grained and user-friendly editing of clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Basavaraj Sunagad , Heming Zhu , Mohit Mendiratta , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Current 4D generation methods have achieved noteworthy efficacy with the aid of advanced diffusion generative models. However, these methods lack multi-view spatial-temporal modeling and encounter challenges in integrating diverse prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haiyu Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Xihui Liu , Yunhong Wang , Yu Qiao

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

We propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

Recent advances in neural radiance fields enable novel view synthesis of photo-realistic images in dynamic settings, which can be applied to scenarios with human animation. Commonly used implicit backbones to establish accurate models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero , Yiren Zhou , Zhihao Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Human video generation task has gained significant attention with the advancement of deep generative models. Generating realistic videos with human movements is challenging in nature, due to the intricacies of human body topology and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengyi Shan , Mohammad Farazi , Wenhui Zhu , Yanxi Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

This paper tackles the challenge of creating relightable and animatable neural avatars from sparse-view (or even monocular) videos of dynamic humans under unknown illumination. Compared to studio environments, this setting is more practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xu , Sida Peng , Chen Geng , Linzhan Mou , Zihan Yan , Jiaming Sun , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

Video-driven neural face reenactment aims to synthesize realistic facial images that successfully preserve the identity and appearance of a source face, while transferring the target head pose and facial expressions. Existing GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Face reenactment aims to generate realistic talking head videos by transferring motion from a driving video to a static source image while preserving the source identity. Although existing methods based on either implicit or explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mingtao Guo , Guanyu Xing , Yanci Zhang , Yanli Liu

We address the problem of dynamic scene reconstruction from sparse-view videos. Prior work often requires dense multi-view captures with hundreds of calibrated cameras (e.g. Panoptic Studio). Such multi-view setups are prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihan Wang , Jeff Tan , Tarasha Khurana , Neehar Peri , Deva Ramanan

We introduce a novel framework for 3D human avatar generation and personalization, leveraging text prompts to enhance user engagement and customization. Central to our approach are key innovations aimed at overcoming the challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Armand Comas-Massagué , Di Qiu , Menglei Chai , Marcel Bühler , Amit Raj , Ruiqi Gao , Qiangeng Xu , Mark Matthews , Paulo Gotardo , Octavia Camps , Sergio Orts-Escolano , Thabo Beeler

Advances in 3D reconstruction have enabled high-quality 3D capture, but require a user to collect hundreds to thousands of images to create a 3D scene. We present CAT3D, a method for creating anything in 3D by simulating this real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Ruiqi Gao , Aleksander Holynski , Philipp Henzler , Arthur Brussee , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Pratul Srinivasan , Jonathan T. Barron , Ben Poole

We introduce Structured 3D Features, a model based on a novel implicit 3D representation that pools pixel-aligned image features onto dense 3D points sampled from a parametric, statistical human mesh surface. The 3D points have associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Enric Corona , Mihai Zanfir , Thiemo Alldieck , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Andrei Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

We present V2M4, a novel 4D reconstruction method that directly generates a usable 4D mesh animation asset from a single monocular video. Unlike existing approaches that rely on priors from multi-view image and video generation models, our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jianqi Chen , Biao Zhang , Xiangjun Tang , Peter Wonka

In this study, we propose AniPortrait, a novel framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image. Our methodology is divided into two stages. Initially, we extract 3D intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huawei Wei , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

Generating highly dynamic and photorealistic portrait animations driven by audio and skeletal motion remains challenging due to the need for precise lip synchronization, natural facial expressions, and high-fidelity body motion dynamics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Cui , Yan Chen , Mingwang Xu , Hanlin Shang , Yuxuan Chen , Yun Zhan , Zilong Dong , Yao Yao , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu