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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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We introduce TADA, a simple-yet-effective approach that takes textual descriptions and produces expressive 3D avatars with high-quality geometry and lifelike textures, that can be animated and rendered with traditional graphics pipelines.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tingting Liao , Hongwei Yi , Yuliang Xiu , Jiaxaing Tang , Yangyi Huang , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

This report presents MagicAvatar, a framework for multimodal video generation and animation of human avatars. Unlike most existing methods that generate avatar-centric videos directly from multimodal inputs (e.g., text prompts), MagicAvatar…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Hanshu Yan , Zhongcong Xu , Jiashi Feng , Jun Hao Liew

High-fidelity digital humans are increasingly used in interactive applications, yet achieving both visual realism and real-time responsiveness remains a major challenge. We present a high-fidelity, real-time conversational digital human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hongbin Huang , Junwei Li , Tianxin Xie , Zhuang Li , Cekai Weng , Yaodong Yang , Yue Luo , Li Liu , Jing Tang , Zhijing Shao , Zeyu Wang

Text-guided human body animation has advanced rapidly, yet facial animation lags due to the scarcity of well-annotated, text-paired facial corpora. To close this gap, we leverage foundation generative models to synthesize a large, balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Zhenchao Jin , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Zichong Xu , Susan Liang , Jing Bi , Jason J Corso , Chenliang Xu

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Face reenactment methods attempt to restore and re-animate portrait videos as realistically as possible. Existing methods face a dilemma in quality versus controllability: 2D GAN-based methods achieve higher image quality but suffer in…

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This paper focuses on the task of speech-driven 3D facial animation, which aims to generate realistic and synchronized facial motions driven by speech inputs. Recent methods have employed audio-conditioned diffusion models for 3D facial…

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Audio-driven human video generation has achieved remarkable success in monologue scenarios, largely driven by advancements in powerful video generation foundation models. Moving beyond monologues, authentic human communication is inherently…

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In this paper, we present TalkingMachines -- an efficient framework that transforms pretrained video generation models into real-time, audio-driven character animators. TalkingMachines enables natural conversational experiences by…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Chetwin Low , Weimin Wang

Existing approaches to animatable NeRF-based head avatars are either built upon face templates or use the expression coefficients of templates as the driving signal. Despite the promising progress, their performances are heavily bound by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuelang Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Han Huang , Guojun Qi , Yebin Liu

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

Despite significant progress in 3D avatar reconstruction, it still faces challenges such as high time complexity, sensitivity to data quality, and low data utilization. We propose FastAvatar, a feedforward 3D avatar framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yue Wu , Xuanhong Chen , Yufan Wu , Wen Li , Yuxi Lu , Kairui Feng

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

Achieving high synchronization in the synthesis of realistic, speech-driven talking head videos presents a significant challenge. A lifelike talking head requires synchronized coordination of subject identity, lip movements, facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziqiao Peng , Wentao Hu , Junyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaomei Zhang , Hao Zhao , Hui Tian , Jun He , Hongyan Liu , Zhaoxin Fan

Modeling face-to-face communication in computer vision, which focuses on recognizing and analyzing nonverbal cues and behaviors during interactions, serves as the foundation for our proposed alternative to text-based Human-AI interaction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Dragos Costea , Alina Marcu , Cristina Lazar , Marius Leordeanu

In recent years, there has been significant interest in creating 3D avatars and motions, driven by their diverse applications in areas like film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. However, current efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Biao Wu , Shuo Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shiya Huang , Wenbo Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

Emotion is a critical component of artificial social intelligence. However, while current methods excel in lip synchronization and image quality, they often fail to generate accurate and controllable emotional expressions while preserving…

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In this work, we present Digital Life Project, a framework utilizing language as the universal medium to build autonomous 3D characters, who are capable of engaging in social interactions and expressing with articulated body motions,…