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Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

We present TimeWalker, a novel framework that models realistic, full-scale 3D head avatars of a person on lifelong scale. Unlike current human head avatar pipelines that capture identity at the momentary level(e.g., instant photography or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dongwei Pan , Yang Li , Hongsheng Li , Kwan-Yee Lin

Generating controllable and editable human motion sequences is a key challenge in 3D Avatar generation. It has been labor-intensive to generate and animate human motion for a long time until learning-based approaches have been developed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zixiang Zhou , Baoyuan Wang

Speech-driven gestures and facial animations are fundamental to expressive digital avatars in games, virtual production, and interactive media. However, existing methods are either limited to a single modality for audio motion alignment,…

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

The ability to create realistic, animatable and relightable head avatars from casual video sequences would open up wide ranging applications in communication and entertainment. Current methods either build on explicit 3D morphable meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yufeng Zheng , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

We propose a compositional method for constructing a complete 3D head avatar from a single image. Prior one-shot holistic approaches frequently fail to produce realistic hair dynamics during animation, largely due to inadequate decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , WeiLi Zhang , Wenxuan Zhang , Yu Guo , Fei Wang

Recent advances in digital avatar technology have enabled the generation of compelling virtual characters, but deploying these avatars on compute-constrained devices poses significant challenges for achieving realistic garment deformations.…

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

Generating realistic and controllable 3D human avatars is a long-standing challenge, particularly when covering broad attribute ranges such as ethnicity, age, clothing styles, and detailed body shapes. Capturing and annotating large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Margaret Kostyrko , Gerard Pons-Moll

Tuning-free face personalization methods have developed along two distinct paradigms: text embedding approaches that map facial features into the text embedding space, and adapter-based methods that inject features through auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Lianyu Pang , Ji Zhou , Qiping Wang , Baoquan Zhao , Zhenguo Yang , Qing Li , Xudong Mao

To make 3D human avatars widely available, we must be able to generate a variety of 3D virtual humans with varied identities and shapes in arbitrary poses. This task is challenging due to the diversity of clothed body shapes, their complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Xu Chen , Tianjian Jiang , Jie Song , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger , Otmar Hilliges

Recovering the geometry of a human head from a single image, while factorizing the materials and illumination is a severely ill-posed problem that requires prior information to be solved. Methods based on 3D Morphable Models (3DMM), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Pol Caselles , Eduard Ramon , Jaime Garcia , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Gil Triginer

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

This paper proposes a novel application system for the generation of three-dimensional (3D) character animation driven by markerless human body motion capturing. The entire pipeline of the system consists of five stages: 1) the capturing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jinbao Wang , Ke Lu , Jian Xue

We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

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

Despite the remarkable process of talking-head-based avatar-creating solutions, directly generating anchor-style videos with full-body motions remains challenging. In this study, we propose Make-Your-Anchor, a novel system necessitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Juan Cao , Jintao Li , Tong-Yee Lee

A unified video and action model holds significant promise for robotics, where videos provide rich scene information for action prediction, and actions provide dynamics information for video prediction. However, effectively combining video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shuang Li , Yihuai Gao , Dorsa Sadigh , Shuran Song

We present OmniAvatar, a novel geometry-guided 3D head synthesis model trained from in-the-wild unstructured images that is capable of synthesizing diverse identity-preserved 3D heads with compelling dynamic details under full disentangled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Zihang Jiang , Jianfeng Zhang , Yichun Shi , Jing Liu , Wanchun Ma , Jiashi Feng , Linjie Luo