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Identity-preserving face synthesis aims to generate synthetic face images of virtual subjects that can substitute real-world data for training face recognition models. While prior arts strive to create images with consistent identities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yuxi Mi , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuge Huang , Qiuyang Yuan , Xuan Zhao , Jianqing Xu , Shouhong Ding , ShaoMing Wang , Rizen Guo , Shuigeng Zhou

While 2D diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in identity-preserving personalization, extending this capability to 3D assets remains a significant challenge due to the complexities of multi-view consistency and spatial control.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jinxin Ai , Matthias Nießner , Ziya Erkoç

In this study, we propose a method for video face reenactment that integrates a 3D face parametric model into a latent diffusion framework, aiming to improve shape consistency and motion control in existing video-based face generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mengting Wei , Yante Li , Tuomas Varanka , Yan Jiang , Guoying Zhao

Recently, 2D speaking avatars have increasingly participated in everyday scenarios due to the fast development of facial animation techniques. However, most existing works neglect the explicit control of human bodies. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Hang Zhou , Shengyi He , Zhiliang Xu , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Hongtao Xie , Youjian Zhao , Ziwei Liu

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to capture fine-grained facial expressions and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Rupayan Mallick , Margrit Betke , Sarah Adel Bargal

Producing expressive facial animations from static images is a challenging task. Prior methods relying on explicit geometric priors (e.g., facial landmarks or 3DMM) often suffer from artifacts in cross reenactment and struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Qiang Wang , Mengchao Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yonggang Qi , Mu Xu

Building 3D animatable head avatars from a single image is an important yet challenging problem. Existing methods generally collapse under large camera pose variations, compromising the realism of 3D avatars. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuling Zhao , Dan Xu

Creating realistic 3D objects and clothed avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

Text-to-3D is an emerging task that allows users to create 3D content with infinite possibilities. Existing works tackle the problem by optimizing a 3D representation with guidance from pre-trained diffusion models. An apparent drawback is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yiji Cheng , Fei Yin , Xiaoke Huang , Xintong Yu , Jiaxiang Liu , Shikun Feng , Yujiu Yang , Yansong Tang

We present AvatarTex, a high-fidelity facial texture reconstruction framework capable of generating both stylized and photorealistic textures from a single image. Existing methods struggle with stylized avatars due to the lack of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuda Qiu , Zitong Xiao , Yiwei Zuo , Zisheng Ye , Weikai Chen , Xiaoguang Han

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…

Speech-driven 3D facial animation synthesis has been a challenging task both in industry and research. Recent methods mostly focus on deterministic deep learning methods meaning that given a speech input, the output is always the same.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Stefan Stan , Kazi Injamamul Haque , Zerrin Yumak

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

Speech-driven 3D talking heads generation has emerged as a significant area of interest among researchers, presenting numerous challenges. Existing methods are constrained by animating faces with fixed topologies, wherein point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Federico Nocentini , Thomas Besnier , Claudio Ferrari , Sylvain Arguillere , Stefano Berretti , Mohamed Daoudi

Existing methods for image-to-3D avatar generation struggle to produce highly detailed, animation-ready avatars suitable for real-world applications. We introduce AdaHuman, a novel framework that generates high-fidelity animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yangyi Huang , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal