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3D video avatars can empower virtual communications by providing compression, privacy, entertainment, and a sense of presence in AR/VR. Best 3D photo-realistic AR/VR avatars driven by video, that can minimize uncanny effects, rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Lele Chen , Chen Cao , Fernando De la Torre , Jason Saragih , Chenliang Xu , Yaser Sheikh

Image generating neural networks are mostly viewed as black boxes, where any change in the input can have a number of globally effective changes on the output. In this work, we propose a method for learning disentangled representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Maren Awiszus , Hanno Ackermann , Bodo Rosenhahn

We present Relightable Holoported Characters (RHC), a novel person-specific method for free-view rendering and relighting of full-body and highly dynamic humans solely observed from sparse-view RGB videos at inference. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kunwar Maheep Singh , Jianchun Chen , Vladislav Golyanik , Stephan J. Garbin , Thabo Beeler , Rishabh Dabral , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

This paper presents a novel neural implicit radiance representation for free viewpoint relighting from a small set of unstructured photographs of an object lit by a moving point light source different from the view position. We express the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chong Zeng , Guojun Chen , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Hongzhi Wu , Xin Tong

We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

Existing Gaussian avatar methods typically parameterize geometry on a body-template surface, which entangles the avatar's representation space with the template's deformation space and limits the capture of layered, off-body, and non-rigid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julian Kaltheuner , Jan Spindler , Sina Kitz , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

Virtual Reality (VR) applications have revolutionized user experiences by immersing individuals in interactive 3D environments. These environments find applications in numerous fields, including healthcare, education, or architecture. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Antoine Maiorca , Seyed Abolfazl Ghasemzadeh , Thierry Ravet , François Cresson , Thierry Dutoit , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

Neural character models can now reconstruct detailed geometry and texture from video, but they lack explicit shadows and shading, leading to artifacts when generating novel views and poses or during relighting. It is particularly difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Luis Bolanos , Shih-Yang Su , Helge Rhodin

We propose RANA, a relightable and articulated neural avatar for the photorealistic synthesis of humans under arbitrary viewpoints, body poses, and lighting. We only require a short video clip of the person to create the avatar and assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Umar Iqbal , Akin Caliskan , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz

It is now possible to reconstruct dynamic human motion and shape from a sparse set of cameras using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) driven by an underlying skeleton. However, a challenge remains to model the deformation of cloth and skin in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Chunjin Song , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

Single-image human relighting aims to relight a target human under new lighting conditions by decomposing the input image into albedo, shape and lighting. Although plausible relighting results can be achieved, previous methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chaonan Ji , Tao Yu , Kaiwen Guo , Jingxin Liu , Yebin Liu

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

Reconstructing an avatar from a portrait image has many applications in multimedia, but remains a challenging research problem. Extracting reflectance maps and geometry from one image is ill-posed: recovering geometry is a one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Abdallah Dib , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann , Emeline Got , Trevor Anderson , Amin Fadaeinejad , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Marc-Andre Carbonneau

Reconstructing photo-realistic drivable human avatars from multi-view image sequences has been a popular and challenging topic in the field of computer vision and graphics. While existing NeRF-based methods can achieve high-quality novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Xiaoyu Li , Li Ma , Qi Zhang , Chaopeng Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Ying Shan

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

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

Mixed Reality (MR) headsets promise a future of immersive telepresence where virtual humans blend indistinguishably into real or virtual surroundings. Achieving this vision requires a method for capturing a user's motion, estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jianchun Chen , Yinda Zhang , Rohit Pandey , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

This paper introduces a novel clothed human model that can be learned from multiview RGB videos, with a particular emphasis on recovering physically accurate body and cloth movements. Our method, Position Based Dynamic Gaussians (PBDyG),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shota Sasaki , Jane Wu , Ko Nishino