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We present a versatile model, FaceAnime, for various video generation tasks from still images. Video generation from a single face image is an interesting problem and usually tackled by utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to…

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Generating realistic 3D faces is of high importance for computer graphics and computer vision applications. Generally, research on 3D face generation revolves around linear statistical models of the facial surface. Nevertheless, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Alexander Lattas , Stylianos Ploumpis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We present a novel paradigm of building an animatable 3D human representation from a monocular video input, such that it can be rendered in any unseen poses and views. Our method is based on a dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) rigged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Gusi Te , Xiu Li , Xiao Li , Jinglu Wang , Wei Hu , Yan Lu

Advances in image diffusion models have recently led to notable improvements in the generation of high-quality images. In combination with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), they enabled new opportunities in 3D generation. However, most…

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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…

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With the increasing demand for 3D animation, generating high-fidelity, controllable 4D avatars from textual descriptions remains a significant challenge. Despite notable efforts in 4D generative modeling, existing methods exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Eddie Pokming Sheung , Qihao Liu , Wufei Ma , Prakhar Kaushik , Jianwen Xie , Alan Yuille

We propose SparseFusion, a sparse view 3D reconstruction approach that unifies recent advances in neural rendering and probabilistic image generation. Existing approaches typically build on neural rendering with re-projected features but…

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Photo-real digital human avatars are of enormous importance in graphics, as they enable immersive communication over the globe, improve gaming and entertainment experiences, and can be particularly beneficial for AR and VR settings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Gerard Pons-Moll , Michael Zollhoefer , Christian Theobalt

Current 3D GAN inversion methods for human heads typically use only one single frontal image to reconstruct the whole 3D head model. This leaves out meaningful information when multi-view data or dynamic videos are available. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Florian Barthel , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides an efficient method for high-quality scene reconstruction using anisotropic Gaussians. Recently, 3DGS-based methods have significantly improved the rendering quality of human avatars while enabling…

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Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

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We propose PAV, Personalized Head Avatar for the synthesis of human faces under arbitrary viewpoints and facial expressions. PAV introduces a method that learns a dynamic deformable neural radiance field (NeRF), in particular from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Akin Caliskan , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Hyeongwoo Kim

Diffusion-based approaches have recently demonstrated strong performance for single-image novel view synthesis by conditioning generative models on geometry inferred from monocular depth estimation. However, in practice, the quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Amirhosein Javadi , Chi-Shiang Gau , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Tara Javidi

Novel view synthesis (NVS) is a cornerstone for image-to-3d creation. However, existing works still struggle to maintain consistency between the generated views and the input views, especially when there is a significant camera pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuying Zhang , Yupeng Zhou , Kai Wang , Yikai Wang , Zhen Li , Shaohui Jiao , Daquan Zhou , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem and has been exclusively studied in the literature. Recently, some methods have resorted to diffusion models for guidance, optimizing a 3D representation via Score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Ying Feng , Qi Zhang , Jianbo Jiao , Yang Zhao , Zhihao Liang , Huachen Gao , Ronggang Wang

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We present DiffHuman, a probabilistic method for photorealistic 3D human reconstruction from a single RGB image. Despite the ill-posed nature of this problem, most methods are deterministic and output a single solution, often resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Akash Sengupta , Thiemo Alldieck , Nikos Kolotouros , Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

Novel view synthesis aims to generate new view images of a given view image collection. Recent attempts address this problem relying on 3D geometry priors (e.g., shapes, sizes, and positions) learned from multi-view images. However, such…

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