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Creating high-fidelity, animatable 3D avatars from a single image remains a formidable challenge. We identified three desirable attributes of avatar generation: 1) the method should be feed-forward, 2) model a 360{\deg} full-head, and 3)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zehao Xia , Yiqun Wang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Jun Xiao , Peter Wonka

Articulated 3D objects play a vital role in realistic simulation and embodied robotics, yet manually constructing such assets remains costly and difficult to scale. In this paper, we present UniArt, a diffusion-based framework that directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bu Jin , Weize Li , Songen Gu , Yupeng Zheng , Yuhang Zheng , Zhengyi Zhou , Yao Yao

We present PrismAvatar: a 3D head avatar model which is designed specifically to enable real-time animation and rendering on resource-constrained edge devices, while still enjoying the benefits of neural volumetric rendering at training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Prashant Raina , Felix Taubner , Mathieu Tuli , Eu Wern Teh , Kevin Ferreira

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu

This paper presents a novel framework to recover \emph{detailed} avatar from a single image. It is a challenging task due to factors such as variations in human shapes, body poses, texture, and viewpoints. Prior methods typically attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Haotian Yang , Sen Wang , Xun Cao , Ruigang Yang

Recent advancements in neural rendering technologies and their supporting devices have paved the way for immersive 3D experiences, significantly transforming human interaction with intelligent devices across diverse applications. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chaojian Li , Sixu Li , Linrui Jiang , Jingqun Zhang , Yingyan Celine Lin

Real-time animation of virtual characters has traditionally been accomplished by playing short sequences of animations structured in the form of a graph. These methods are time-consuming to set up and scale poorly with the number of motions…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jose Luis Ponton

The automated generation of 3D human heads has been an intriguing and challenging task for computer vision researchers. Prevailing methods synthesize realistic avatars but with limited control over the diversity and quality of rendered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Debayan Deb , Suvidha Tripathi , Pranit Puri

Unsupervised generation of 3D-aware clothed humans with various appearances and controllable geometries is important for creating virtual human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

The past few years have witnessed the rapid development of vision-centric 3D perception in autonomous driving. Although the 3D perception models share many structural and conceptual similarities, there still exist gaps in their feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yu Hong , Qian Liu , Huayuan Cheng , Danjiao Ma , Hang Dai , Yu Wang , Guangzhi Cao , Yong Ding

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

The appearance of a human in clothing is driven not only by the pose but also by its temporal context, i.e., motion. However, such context has been largely neglected by existing monocular human modeling methods whose neural networks often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hansol Lee , Junuk Cha , Yunhoe Ku , Jae Shin Yoon , Seungryul Baek

We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marcel C. Bühler , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal

We present GenLCA, a diffusion-based generative model for generating and editing photorealistic full-body avatars from text and image inputs. The generated avatars are faithful to the inputs, while supporting high-fidelity facial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yiqian Wu , Rawal Khirodkar , Egor Zakharov , Timur Bagautdinov , Lei Xiao , Zhaoen Su , Shunsuke Saito , Xiaogang Jin , Junxuan Li

Action recognition based on skeleton data has recently witnessed increasing attention and progress. State-of-the-art approaches adopting Graph Convolutional networks (GCNs) can effectively extract features on human skeletons relying on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Di Yang , Yaohui Wang , Antitza Dantcheva , Lorenzo Garattoni , Gianpiero Francesca , Francois Bremond

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

Recently, animating portrait images using audio input is a popular task. Creating lifelike talking head videos requires flexible and natural movements, including facial and head dynamics, camera motion, realistic light and shadow effects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Wenzhang Sun , Xiang Li , Donglin Di , Zhuding Liang , Qiyuan Zhang , Hao Li , Wei Chen , Jianxun Cui

Large-scale pre-trained vision-language models allow for the zero-shot text-based generation of 3D avatars. The previous state-of-the-art method utilized CLIP to supervise neural implicit models that reconstructed a human body mesh.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Shuo Huang , Zongxin Yang , Liangting Li , Yi Yang , Jia Jia

Reconstructing 3D clothed human avatars from single images is a challenging task, especially when encountering complex poses and loose clothing. Current methods exhibit limitations in performance, largely attributable to their dependence on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zechuan Zhang , Li Sun , Zongxin Yang , Ling Chen , Yi Yang