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Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Creating realistic 3D facial animation is crucial for various applications in the movie production and gaming industry, especially with the burgeoning demand in the metaverse. However, prevalent methods such as blendshape-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Haoyu Wang , Haozhe Wu , Junliang Xing , Jia Jia

We present a dataset of 1000 video sequences of human portraits recorded in real and uncontrolled conditions by using a handheld smartphone accompanied by an external high-quality depth camera. The collected dataset contains 200 people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Anastasiia Kornilova , Marsel Faizullin , Konstantin Pakulev , Andrey Sadkov , Denis Kukushkin , Azat Akhmetyanov , Timur Akhtyamov , Hekmat Taherinejad , Gonzalo Ferrer

Current text-to-avatar methods often rely on implicit representations (e.g., NeRF, SDF, and DMTet), leading to 3D content that artists cannot easily edit and animate in graphics software. This paper introduces a novel framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Duotun Wang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Zhijing Shao , Qianxi Liu , Lin Wang , Mingming Fan , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

Human relighting is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Existing works either require expensive one-light-at-a-time (OLAT) captured data using light stage or cannot freely change the viewpoints of the rendered body. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Zhaoxi Chen , Ziwei Liu

We present FaceLift, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable high-quality 360-degree 3D head reconstruction from a single image. Our pipeline first employs a multi-view latent diffusion model to generate consistent side and back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Weijie Lyu , Yi Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

Generating animatable and editable 3D head avatars is essential for various applications in computer vision and graphics. Traditional 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs), often using implicit fields like Neural Radiance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guohao Li , Hongyu Yang , Yifang Men , Di Huang , Weixin Li , Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang

We propose a real time deep learning framework for video-based facial expression capture. Our process uses a high-end facial capture pipeline based on FACEGOOD to capture facial expression. We train a convolutional neural network to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Hongwei Xu , Leijia Dai , Jianxing Fu , Xiangyuan Wang , Quanwei Wang

We present Vid2Avatar, a method to learn human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Reconstructing humans that move naturally from monocular in-the-wild videos is difficult. Solving it requires accurately separating humans from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chen Guo , Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Recently, 3D face reconstruction from a single image has achieved great success with the help of deep learning and shape prior knowledge, but they often fail to produce accurate geometry details. On the other hand, photometric stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Xueying Wang , Yudong Guo , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

We present the first neural relighting approach for rendering high-fidelity personalized hands that can be animated in real-time under novel illumination. Our approach adopts a teacher-student framework, where the teacher learns appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shun Iwase , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Stephen Lombardi , Timur Bagautdinov , Rohan Joshi , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

In this paper, we present a video-based learning framework for animating personalized 3D talking faces from audio. We introduce two training-time data normalizations that significantly improve data sample efficiency. First, we isolate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Avisek Lahiri , Vivek Kwatra , Christian Frueh , John Lewis , Chris Bregler

We introduce a novel representation for efficient classical rendering of photorealistic 3D face avatars. Leveraging recent advances in radiance fields anchored to parametric face models, our approach achieves controllable volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Safa C. Medin , Gengyan Li , Ziqian Bai , Ruofei Du , Leonhard Helminger , Yinda Zhang , Stephan J. Garbin , Philip L. Davidson , Gregory W. Wornell , Thabo Beeler , Abhimitra Meka

We present SimXR, a method for controlling a simulated avatar from information (headset pose and cameras) obtained from AR / VR headsets. Due to the challenging viewpoint of head-mounted cameras, the human body is often clipped out of view,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Rawal Khirodkar , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

We propose TextToon, a method to generate a drivable toonified avatar. Given a short monocular video sequence and a written instruction about the avatar style, our model can generate a high-fidelity toonified avatar that can be driven in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Luchuan Song , Lele Chen , Celong Liu , Pinxin Liu , Chenliang Xu

Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

We present Vid2Avatar-Pro, a method to create photorealistic and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Building a high-quality avatar that supports animation with diverse poses from a monocular video is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chen Guo , Junxuan Li , Yash Kant , Yaser Sheikh , Shunsuke Saito , Chen Cao

We propose a new approach for editing face images, which enables numerous exciting applications including face relighting, makeup transfer and face detail editing. Our face edits are based on a visual representation, which includes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Jiajun Lu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Nathan Carr , Sunil Hadap , David Forsyth

We introduce SynthLight, a diffusion model for portrait relighting. Our approach frames image relighting as a re-rendering problem, where pixels are transformed in response to changes in environmental lighting conditions. Using a…

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