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Generating human videos from a single image while ensuring high visual quality and precise control is a challenging task, especially in complex scenarios involving multiple individuals and interactions with objects. Existing methods, while…

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Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

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Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

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Consistent human-centric image and video synthesis aims to generate images or videos with new poses while preserving appearance consistency with a given reference image, which is crucial for low-cost visual content creation. Recent advances…

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Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

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Modeling animatable human avatars from monocular or multi-view videos has been widely studied, with recent approaches leveraging neural radiance fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieving impressive results in novel-view and…

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While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

In medical imaging, the diffusion models have shown great potential for synthetic image generation tasks. However, these approaches often lack the interpretable connections between the generated and real images and can create anatomically…

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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…

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Automatically generating multiview illusions is a compelling challenge, where a single piece of visual content offers distinct interpretations from different viewing perspectives. Traditional methods, such as shadow art and wire art, create…

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We present D-Rex, a person-specific framework for photorealistic, relightable, expressive, and animatable full-body human avatars with free-viewpoint rendering. Existing methods for relightable full-body avatars rely on explicit 3D…

The field of portrait image animation, driven by speech audio input, has experienced significant advancements in the generation of realistic and dynamic portraits. This research delves into the complexities of synchronizing facial movements…

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Synthesizing photorealistic 4D human head avatars from videos is essential for VR/AR, telepresence, and video game applications. Although existing Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based methods achieve high-fidelity results, the computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hao-Bin Duan , Miao Wang , Jin-Chuan Shi , Xu-Chuan Chen , Yan-Pei Cao

We propose a novel neural rendering pipeline, Hybrid Volumetric-Textural Rendering (HVTR), which synthesizes virtual human avatars from arbitrary poses efficiently and at high quality. First, we learn to encode articulated human motions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Tao Hu , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , He Zhang , Yebin Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Creating animatable 3D avatars from a single image remains challenging due to style limitations (realistic, cartoon, anime) and difficulties in handling accessories or hairstyles. While 3D diffusion models advance single-view reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tingting Liao , Yujian Zheng , Adilbek Karmanov , Liwen Hu , Leyang Jin , Yuliang Xiu , Hao Li

Deepfake images are fast becoming a serious concern due to their realism. Diffusion models have recently demonstrated highly realistic visual content generation, which makes them an excellent potential tool for Deepfake generation. To curb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yunzhuo Chen , Nur Al Hasan Haldar , Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian

We present HairWeaver, a diffusion-based pipeline that animates a single human image with realistic and expressive hair dynamics. While existing methods successfully control body pose, they lack specific control over hair, and as a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Di Chang , Ji Hou , Aljaz Bozic , Assaf Neuberger , Felix Juefei-Xu , Olivier Maury , Gene Wei-Chin Lin , Tuur Stuyck , Doug Roble , Mohammad Soleymani , Stephane Grabli

Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

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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…

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