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We present TexMesh, a novel approach to reconstruct detailed human meshes with high-resolution full-body texture from RGB-D video. TexMesh enables high quality free-viewpoint rendering of humans. Given the RGB frames, the captured…

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Recent diffusion methods have made significant progress in generating videos from single images due to their powerful visual generation capabilities. However, challenges persist in image-to-video synthesis, particularly in human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tiantian Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Tao Hu , Mallikarjun Byrasandra Ramalinga Reddy , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

Despite recent progress, video generative models still struggle to animate static images into videos that portray delicate human actions, particularly when handling uncommon or novel actions whose training data are limited. In this paper,…

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This paper presents an in-depth exploration of 3D human model and avatar generation technology, propelled by the rapid advancements in large-scale models and artificial intelligence. The paper reviews the comprehensive process of 3D human…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lei Liu , Ke Zhao

We consider the task of generating realistic 3D shapes, which is useful for a variety of applications such as automatic scene generation and physical simulation. Compared to other 3D representations like voxels and point clouds, meshes are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Zhen Liu , Yao Feng , Michael J. Black , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Weiyang Liu

Generating human motions from textual descriptions has gained growing research interest due to its wide range of applications. However, only a few works consider human-scene interactions together with text conditions, which is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Zhi Cen , Huaijin Pi , Sida Peng , Zehong Shen , Minghui Yang , Shuai Zhu , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Reconstructing complete and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging, particularly under severe occlusions. While 3D Gaussian Splatting has enabled photorealistic human rendering, existing methods struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jinlong Fan , Shanshan Zhao , Liang Zheng , Jing Zhang , Yuxiang Yang , Mingming Gong

We propose Human Pose Models that represent RGB and depth images of human poses independent of clothing textures, backgrounds, lighting conditions, body shapes and camera viewpoints. Learning such universal models requires training images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Jian Liu , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

Human-scene interaction (HSI) generation is crucial for applications in embodied AI, virtual reality, and robotics. Yet, existing methods cannot synthesize interactions in unseen environments such as in-the-wild scenes or reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hongjie Li , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiaman Li , Jiajun Wu

We address the computational problem of novel human pose synthesis. Given an image of a person and a desired pose, we produce a depiction of that person in that pose, retaining the appearance of both the person and background. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Adrian V. Dalca , Fredo Durand , John Guttag

In video understanding tasks, particularly those involving human motion, synthetic data generation often suffers from uncanny features, diminishing its effectiveness for training. Tasks such as sign language translation, gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

There has been significant progress in generating an animatable 3D human avatar from a single image. However, recovering texture for the 3D human avatar from a single image has been relatively less addressed. Because the generated 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Sihun Cha , Kwanggyoon Seo , Amirsaman Ashtari , Junyong Noh

Existing methods for reconstructing animatable 3D animals from videos typically rely on sparse semantic keypoints to fit parametric models. However, obtaining such keypoints is labor-intensive, and keypoint detectors trained on limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shanshan Zhong , Jiawei Peng , Zehan Zheng , Zhongzhan Huang , Wufei Ma , Guofeng Zhang , Qihao Liu , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

Existing methods for synthesizing 3D human gestures from speech have shown promising results, but they do not explicitly model the impact of emotions on the generated gestures. Instead, these methods directly output animations from speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Radek Daněček , Nikos Athanasiou , Giorgio Becherini , Christopher Peters , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

We introduce a novel framework for modeling high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars from motion-blurred monocular video inputs. Motion blur is prevalent in real-world dynamic video capture, especially due to human movements in 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Fan Yang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Understanding and predicting dynamics of the physical world can enhance a robot's ability to plan and interact effectively in complex environments. While recent video generation models have shown strong potential in modeling dynamic scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyi Liu , Shuang Li , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Shuran Song

Lack of input data for in-the-wild activities often results in low performance across various computer vision tasks. This challenge is particularly pronounced in uncommon human-centric domains like sports, where real-world data collection…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jerrin Bright , Zhibo Wang , Yuhao Chen , Sirisha Rambhatla , John Zelek , David Clausi

Human motion video generation has garnered significant research interest due to its broad applications, enabling innovations such as photorealistic singing heads or dynamic avatars that seamlessly dance to music. However, existing surveys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haiwei Xue , Xiangyang Luo , Zhanghao Hu , Xin Zhang , Xunzhi Xiang , Yuqin Dai , Jianzhuang Liu , Zhensong Zhang , Minglei Li , Jian Yang , Fei Ma , Zhiyong Wu , Changpeng Yang , Zonghong Dai , Fei Richard Yu

Toward unlocking the potential of generative models in immersive 4D experiences, we introduce Virtual Pet, a novel pipeline to model realistic and diverse motions for target animal species within a 3D environment. To circumvent the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yen-Chi Cheng , Chieh Hubert Lin , Chaoyang Wang , Yash Kant , Sergey Tulyakov , Alexander Schwing , Liangyan Gui , Hsin-Ying Lee