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Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Evan Atherton , Bruno Roy

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

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

SmartAvatar is a vision-language-agent-driven framework for generating fully rigged, animation-ready 3D human avatars from a single photo or textual prompt. While diffusion-based methods have made progress in general 3D object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alexander Huang-Menders , Xinhang Liu , Andy Xu , Yuyao Zhang , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

A vital task of the wider digital human effort is the creation of realistic garments on digital avatars, both in the form of characteristic fold patterns and wrinkles in static frames as well as richness of garment dynamics under avatars'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meng Zhang , Duygu Ceylan , Tuanfeng Wang , Niloy J. Mitra

Achieving machine autonomy and human control often represent divergent objectives in the design of interactive AI systems. Visual generative foundation models such as Stable Diffusion show promise in navigating these goals, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Can Qin , Shu Zhang , Ning Yu , Yihao Feng , Xinyi Yang , Yingbo Zhou , Huan Wang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Stefano Ermon , Yun Fu , Ran Xu

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

In this paper, we consider a novel problem of reconstructing a 3D human avatar from multiple unconstrained frames, independent of assumptions on camera calibration, capture space, and constrained actions. The problem should be addressed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xiangyu Zhu , Tingting Liao , Jiangjing Lyu , Xiang Yan , Yunfeng Wang , Kan Guo , Qiong Cao , Stan Z. Li , Zhen Lei

In this paper, we propose Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian head Avatar (GAGAvatar) for one-shot animatable head avatar reconstruction. Existing methods rely on neural radiance fields, leading to heavy rendering consumption and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuangeng Chu , Tatsuya Harada

This paper proposes a new end-to-end neural rendering architecture to transfer appearance and reenact human actors. Our method leverages a carefully designed graph convolutional network (GCN) to model the human body manifold structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thiago L. Gomes , Thiago M. Coutinho , Rafael Azevedo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

High-quality 3D avatar modeling faces a critical trade-off between fidelity and generalization. On the one hand, multi-view studio data enables high-fidelity modeling of humans with precise control over expressions and poses, but it…

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

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

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Multi-view volumetric rendering techniques have recently shown great potential in modeling and synthesizing high-quality head avatars. A common approach to capture full head dynamic performances is to track the underlying geometry using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Xingang Pan , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

We introduce Gaussian Wardrobe, a novel framework to digitalize compositional 3D neural avatars from multi-view videos. Existing methods for 3D neural avatars typically treat the human body and clothing as an inseparable entity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhiyi Chen , Hsuan-I Ho , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Manuel Kaufmann , Chen Guo

We have recently seen great progress in building photorealistic animatable full-body codec avatars, but generating high-fidelity animation of clothing is still difficult. To address these difficulties, we propose a method to build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Donglai Xiang , Fabian Prada , Timur Bagautdinov , Weipeng Xu , Yuan Dong , He Wen , Jessica Hodgins , Chenglei Wu

Reconstructing a high-quality, animatable 3D human avatar with expressive facial and hand motions from a single image has gained significant attention due to its broad application potential. 3D human avatar reconstruction typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yang Li , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Existing diffusion-based 3D scene generation methods primarily operate in 2D image/video latent spaces, which makes maintaining cross-view appearance and geometric consistency inherently challenging. To bridge this gap, we present OneWorld,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sensen Gao , Zhaoqing Wang , Qihang Cao , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong , Jiawang Bian