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Lighting plays a pivotal role in ensuring the naturalness and aesthetic quality of video generation. However, the impact of lighting is deeply coupled with other factors of videos, e.g., objects and scenes. Thus, it remains challenging to…

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Recent years have witnessed great progress in creating vivid audio-driven portraits from monocular videos. However, how to seamlessly adapt the created video avatars to other scenarios with different backgrounds and lighting conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haonan Qiu , Zhaoxi Chen , Yuming Jiang , Hang Zhou , Xiangyu Fan , Lei Yang , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

We propose a method to learn a high-quality implicit 3D head avatar from a monocular RGB video captured in the wild. The learnt avatar is driven by a parametric face model to achieve user-controlled facial expressions and head poses. Our…

Recent diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image relighting, and this success has quickly been extended to video relighting. However, existing methods offer limited explicit control over illumination in the relighted…

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Generating high-quality videos that synthesize desired realistic content is a challenging task due to their intricate high-dimensionality and complexity of videos. Several recent diffusion-based methods have shown comparable performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kihong Kim , Haneol Lee , Jihye Park , Seyeon Kim , Kwanghee Lee , Seungryong Kim , Jaejun Yoo

Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in an unsupervised way, by properly constraining the sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Alexandros Lattas , Stylianos Moschoglou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Reconstructing photorealistic and dynamic portrait avatars from images is essential to many applications including advertising, visual effects, and virtual reality. Depending on the application, avatar reconstruction involves different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , David B. Lindell

Portrait Animation aims to synthesize a lifelike video from a single source image, using it as an appearance reference, with motion (i.e., facial expressions and head pose) derived from a driving video, audio, text, or generation. Instead…

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In this work, we address a challenge in video inpainting: reconstructing occluded regions in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Motivated by the need for continuous human motion monitoring in healthcare settings, where facial features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zheyan Zhang , Diego Klabjan , Renee CB Manworren

Over the past decade, many computational saliency prediction models have been proposed for 2D images and videos. Considering that the human visual system has evolved in a natural 3D environment, it is only natural to want to design visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Mahsa T. Pourazad , Panos Nasiopoulos

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…

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Controlling illumination during video post-production is a crucial yet elusive goal in computational photography. Existing methods often lack flexibility, restricting users to certain relighting models. This paper introduces ReLumix, a…

Video portraits relighting is critical in user-facing human photography, especially for immersive VR/AR experience. Recent advances still fail to recover consistent relit result under dynamic illuminations from monocular RGB stream,…

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Recent advancements in diffusion models have set new benchmarks in image and video generation, enabling realistic visual synthesis across single- and multi-frame contexts. However, these models still struggle with efficiently and explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qihang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Miguel Angel Bautista , Kevin Miao , Alexander Toshev , Joshua Susskind , Jiatao Gu

We present a learning-based technique for estimating high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination from a single low dynamic range (LDR) portrait image captured under arbitrary indoor or outdoor lighting conditions. We train our…

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Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have established a new paradigm for image and video relighting. However, extending these capabilities to 4D relighting remains challenging, due primarily to the scarcity of paired 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhenghuang Wu , Kang Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yingcheng Hu , Haowen Gong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu , Songhua Liu

Video models have recently been applied with success to problems in content generation, novel view synthesis, and, more broadly, world simulation. Many applications in generation and transfer rely on conditioning these models, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Edoardo A. Dominici , Thomas Deixelberger , Konstantinos Vardis , Markus Steinberger

Recent advances in 4D generation mainly focus on generating 4D content by distilling pre-trained text or single-view image-conditioned models. It is inconvenient for them to take advantage of various off-the-shelf 3D assets with multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yanqin Jiang , Chaohui Yu , Chenjie Cao , Fan Wang , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

Diffusion-based human animation aims to animate a human character based on a source human image as well as driving signals such as a sequence of poses. Leveraging the generative capacity of diffusion model, existing approaches are able to…

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