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Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang

Tracking and reconstructing the 3D pose and geometry of two hands in interaction is a challenging problem that has a high relevance for several human-computer interaction applications, including AR/VR, robotics, or sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiayi Wang , Franziska Mueller , Florian Bernard , Suzanne Sorli , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Neng Qian , Miguel A. Otaduy , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

In this paper, we present WonderHuman to reconstruct dynamic human avatars from a monocular video for high-fidelity novel view synthesis. Previous dynamic human avatar reconstruction methods typically require the input video to have full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zilong Wang , Zhiyang Dou , Yuan Liu , Cheng Lin , Xiao Dong , Yunhui Guo , Chenxu Zhang , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Xiaohu Guo

We address the problem of estimating the shape of a person's head, defined as the geometry of the complete head surface, from a video taken with a single moving camera, and determining the alignment of the fitted 3D head for all video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tejas Mane , Aylar Bayramova , Kostas Daniilidis , Philippos Mordohai , Elena Bernardis

Recovering 3D full-body human pose is a challenging problem with many applications. It has been successfully addressed by motion capture systems with body worn markers and multiple cameras. In this paper, we address the more challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Georgios Pavlakos , Spyridon Leonardos , Kostantinos G. Derpanis , Kostas Daniilidis

Face animation is a challenging task. Existing model-based methods (utilizing 3DMMs or landmarks) often result in a model-like reconstruction effect, which doesn't effectively preserve identity. Conversely, model-free approaches face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Lei Zhu , Yuanqi Chen , Xiaohang Liu , Thomas H. Li , Ge Li

Objects manipulated by the hand (i.e., manipulanda) are particularly challenging to reconstruct from Internet videos. Not only does the hand occlude much of the object, but also the object is often only visible in a small number of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jane Wu , Georgios Pavlakos , Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

We present a method that reconstructs and animates a 3D head avatar from a single-view portrait image. Existing methods either involve time-consuming optimization for a specific person with multiple images, or they struggle to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xueting Li , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal , Jan Kautz

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

We present a novel method to learn Personalized Implicit Neural Avatars (PINA) from a short RGB-D sequence. This allows non-expert users to create a detailed and personalized virtual copy of themselves, which can be animated with realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Zijian Dong , Chen Guo , Jie Song , Xu Chen , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges

With the rising interest from the community in digital avatars coupled with the importance of expressions and gestures in communication, modeling natural avatar behavior remains an important challenge across many industries such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Kefan Chen , Sergiu Oprea , Justin Theiss , Sreyas Mohan , Srinath Sridhar , Aayush Prakash

There is a growing demand for the accessible creation of high-quality 3D avatars that are animatable and customizable. Although 3D morphable models provide intuitive control for editing and animation, and robustness for single-view face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Connor Z. Lin , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Eric R. Chan , Umar Iqbal , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sameh Khamis

In this paper, we propose a novel learning approach for feed-forward one-shot 4D head avatar synthesis. Different from existing methods that often learn from reconstructing monocular videos guided by 3DMM, we employ pseudo multi-view videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yu Deng , Duomin Wang , Baoyuan Wang

We present the first method to capture the 3D total motion of a target person from a monocular view input. Given an image or a monocular video, our method reconstructs the motion from body, face, and fingers represented by a 3D deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Donglai Xiang , Hanbyul Joo , Yaser Sheikh

Reconstructing a dynamic human with loose clothing is an important but difficult task. To address this challenge, we propose a method named DLCA-Recon to create human avatars from monocular videos. The distance from loose clothing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chunjie Luo , Fei Luo , Yusen Wang , Enxu Zhao , Chunxia Xiao

Human performance capture is a highly important computer vision problem with many applications in movie production and virtual/augmented reality. Many previous performance capture approaches either required expensive multi-view setups or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marc Habermann , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

Facial video re-targeting is a challenging problem aiming to modify the facial attributes of a target subject in a seamless manner by a driving monocular sequence. We leverage the 3D geometry of faces and Generative Adversarial Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Michail Christos Doukas , Mohammad Rami Koujan , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Anastasios Roussos

Tremendous efforts have been made to learn animatable and photorealistic human avatars. Towards this end, both explicit and implicit 3D representations are heavily studied for a holistic modeling and capture of the whole human (e.g., body,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yao Feng , Weiyang Liu , Timo Bolkart , Jinlong Yang , Marc Pollefeys , Michael J. Black