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Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Visuomotor policies learned from teleoperated demonstrations face challenges such as lengthy data collection, high costs, and limited data diversity. Existing approaches address these issues by augmenting image observations in RGB space or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sizhe Yang , Wenye Yu , Jia Zeng , Jun Lv , Kerui Ren , Cewu Lu , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable progress in multi-view surface reconstruction, yet it exhibits notable degradation when only few views are available. Although recent efforts alleviate this issue by enhancing multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jimin Tang , Wenyuan Zhang , Junsheng Zhou , Zian Huang , Kanle Shi , Shenkun Xu , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled fast, photorealistic rendering of dynamic 3D scenes, showing strong potential in immersive communication. However, in digital human encoding and transmission, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haocheng Tang , Ruoke Yan , Xinhui Yin , Qi Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao , Chuanmin Jia

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

We propose VLOGGER, a method for audio-driven human video generation from a single input image of a person, which builds on the success of recent generative diffusion models. Our method consists of 1) a stochastic human-to-3d-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enric Corona , Andrei Zanfir , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Cristian Sminchisescu

In this paper, we present a novel framework for video-to-4D generation that creates high-quality dynamic 3D content from single video inputs. Direct 4D diffusion modeling is extremely challenging due to costly data construction and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Bowen Zhang , Sicheng Xu , Chuxin Wang , Jiaolong Yang , Feng Zhao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Diffusion-based audio-driven talking avatar methods have recently gained attention for their high-fidelity, vivid, and expressive results. However, their slow inference speed limits practical applications. Despite the development of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Tianyun Zhong , Chao Liang , Jianwen Jiang , Gaojie Lin , Jiaqi Yang , Zhou Zhao

In this work, we introduce a novel high-fidelity 3D head reconstruction method from a single portrait image, regardless of perspective, expression, or accessories. Despite significant efforts in adapting 2D generative models for novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jianfu Zhang , Yujie Gao , Jiahui Zhan , Wentao Wang , Yiyi Zhang , Haohua Zhao , Liqing Zhang

The lack of spatial dimensional information remains a challenge in normal estimation from a single image. Recent diffusion-based methods have demonstrated significant potential in 2D-to-3D implicit mapping, they rely on data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yanxing Liang , Yinghui Wang , Jinlong Yang , Wei Li

Despite recent advances in Novel View Synthesis (NVS), generating high-fidelity views from single or sparse observations remains a significant challenge. Existing splatting-based approaches often produce distorted geometry due to splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Xiang Zhang , Yang Zhang , Lukas Mehl , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Recovering 3D information from scenes via multi-view stereo reconstruction (MVS) and novel view synthesis (NVS) is inherently challenging, particularly in scenarios involving sparse-view setups. The advent of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shubhendu Jena , Shishir Reddy Vutukur , Adnane Boukhayma

Generating novel views of a natural scene, e.g., every-day scenes both indoors and outdoors, from a single view is an under-explored problem, even though it is an organic extension to the object-centric novel view synthesis. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Wonbong Jang , Jonathan Tremblay , Lourdes Agapito

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

High-quality, animatable 3D human avatar reconstruction from monocular videos offers significant potential for reducing reliance on complex hardware, making it highly practical for applications in game development, augmented reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xia Yuan , Hai Yuan , Wenyi Ge , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Guanyu Xing

Recently single-view 3D generation via Gaussian splatting has emerged and developed quickly. They learn 3D Gaussians from 2D RGB images generated from pre-trained multi-view diffusion (MVD) models, and have shown a promising avenue for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yiyang Shen , Kun Zhou , He Wang , Yin Yang , Tianjia Shao

We present RodinHD, which can generate high-fidelity 3D avatars from a portrait image. Existing methods fail to capture intricate details such as hairstyles which we tackle in this paper. We first identify an overlooked problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Bowen Zhang , Yiji Cheng , Chunyu Wang , Ting Zhang , Jiaolong Yang , Yansong Tang , Feng Zhao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Recent advancements in text-to-image generation have enabled significant progress in zero-shot 3D shape generation. This is achieved by score distillation, a methodology that uses pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models to optimize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhenzhen Weng , Zeyu Wang , Serena Yeung

While recent works have achieved great success on image-to-3D object generation, high quality and fidelity 3D head generation from a single image remains a great challenge. Previous text-based methods for generating 3D heads were limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinkun Hao , Junshu Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Yijia Hong , Moran Li , Weijian Cao , Yating Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

We present a novel approach for 3D hair reconstruction from single photographs based on a global hair prior combined with local optimization. Capturing strand-based hair geometry from single photographs is challenging due to the variety and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Vanessa Sklyarova , Egor Zakharov , Malte Prinzler , Giorgio Becherini , Michael J. Black , Justus Thies