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In this paper, we propose ARCH (Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humans), a novel end-to-end framework for accurate reconstruction of animation-ready 3D clothed humans from a monocular image. Existing approaches to digitize 3D humans…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zeng Huang , Yuanlu Xu , Christoph Lassner , Hao Li , Tony Tung

We introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Gent Serifi , Marcel C. Buehler

Recently, we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However, due to the diversity of frameworks, there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Bao , Yinda Zhang , Yuan Li , Xiyu Zhang , Bangbang Yang , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

The transfer of facial expressions from people to 3D face models is a classic computer graphics problem. In this paper, we present a novel, learning-based approach to transferring facial expressions and head movements from images and videos…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Xiao S. Zeng , Surya Dwarakanath , Wuyue Lu , Masaki Nakada , Demetri Terzopoulos

Our goal is to create a realistic 3D facial avatar with hair and accessories using only a text description. While this challenge has attracted significant recent interest, existing methods either lack realism, produce unrealistic shapes, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hao Zhang , Yao Feng , Peter Kulits , Yandong Wen , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

We present Perm, a learned parametric representation of human 3D hair designed to facilitate various hair-related applications. Unlike previous work that jointly models the global hair structure and local curl patterns, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Chengan He , Xin Sun , Zhixin Shu , Fujun Luan , Sören Pirk , Jorge Alejandro Amador Herrera , Dominik L. Michels , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Meng Zhang , Holly Rushmeier , Yi Zhou

Creating high-fidelity and editable head avatars is a pivotal challenge in computer vision and graphics, boosting many AR/VR applications. While recent advancements have achieved photorealistic renderings and plausible animation, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Heyi Sun , Cong Wang , Tian-Xing Xu , Jingwei Huang , Di Kang , Chunchao Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

We propose PFAvatar (Pose-Fusion Avatar), a new method that reconstructs high-quality 3D avatars from Outfit of the Day(OOTD) photos, which exhibit diverse poses, occlusions, and complex backgrounds. Our method consists of two stages: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dianbing Xi , Guoyuan An , Jingsen Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Yuan Liu , Ruiyuan Zhang , Jiayuan Lu , Yuchi Huo , Rui Wang

Real-world robotic tasks stretch over extended horizons and encompass multiple stages. Learning long-horizon manipulation tasks, however, is a long-standing challenge, and demands decomposing the overarching task into several manageable…

We introduce a novel learning-based method for encoding and manipulating 3D surface meshes. Our method is specifically designed to create an interpretable embedding space for deformable shape collections. Unlike previous 3D mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Sara Hahner , Souhaib Attaiki , Jochen Garcke , Maks Ovsjanikov

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jian Shu , Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Junlong Ren , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

We present UniTEX, a novel two-stage 3D texture generation framework to create high-quality, consistent textures for 3D assets. Existing approaches predominantly rely on UV-based inpainting to refine textures after reprojecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yixun Liang , Kunming Luo , Xiao Chen , Rui Chen , Hongyu Yan , Weiyu Li , Jiarui Liu , Ping Tan

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

While current monocular 3D face reconstruction methods can recover fine geometric details, they suffer several limitations. Some methods produce faces that cannot be realistically animated because they do not model how wrinkles vary with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Yao Feng , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

3D head animation has seen major quality and runtime improvements over the last few years, particularly empowered by the advances in differentiable rendering and neural radiance fields. Real-time rendering is a highly desirable goal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Helisa Dhamo , Yinyu Nie , Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Monocular 3D clothed human reconstruction aims to create a complete 3D avatar from a single image. To tackle the human geometry lacking in one RGB image, current methods typically resort to a preceding model for an explicit geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Wenhao Shen , Jian Shu , Hao Wang

We propose Relightable Full-Body Gaussian Codec Avatars, a new approach for modeling relightable full-body avatars with fine-grained details including face and hands. The unique challenge for relighting full-body avatars lies in the large…

Image-to-3D models increasingly rely on hierarchical generation to disentangle geometry and texture. However, the design choices underlying these two-stage models--particularly the optimal choice of intermediate geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rishabh Kabra , Drew A. Hudson , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Joao Carreira , Niloy J. Mitra

We propose a method to reconstruct high-fidelity human avatars from multi-view video that can run on mobile devices. Many works can model high-quality Gaussian-based full-body avatars from multi-view video. However, these methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Youyi Zhan , He Wang , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou