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We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

We present a novel animatable 3D Gaussian model for rendering high-fidelity free-view human motions in real time. Compared to existing NeRF-based methods, the model owns better capability in synthesizing high-frequency details without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Keyang Ye , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

Facial animation is one of the most challenging problems in computer graphics, and it is often solved using linear heuristics like blend-shape rigging. More expressive approaches like physical simulation have emerged, but these methods are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yeara Kozlov , Hongyi Xu , Moritz Bächer , Derek Bradley , Markus Gross , Thabo Beeler

Realistic object interactions are crucial for creating immersive virtual experiences, yet synthesizing realistic 3D object dynamics in response to novel interactions remains a significant challenge. Unlike unconditional or text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianyuan Zhang , Hong-Xing Yu , Rundi Wu , Brandon Y. Feng , Changxi Zheng , Noah Snavely , Jiajun Wu , William T. Freeman

Realistic 3D full-body talking avatars hold great potential in AR, with applications ranging from e-commerce live streaming to holographic communication. Despite advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for lifelike avatar creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jianchuan Chen , Jingchuan Hu , Gaige Wang , Zhonghua Jiang , Tiansong Zhou , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

While recent video generation models have achieved significant visual fidelity, they often suffer from the lack of explicit physical controllability and plausibility. To address this, some recent studies attempted to guide the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haoze Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Zichen Wan , Xiaowei Jin , Hongzhi Zhang , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

A photorealistic and controllable 3D caricaturization framework for faces is introduced. We start with an intrinsic Gaussian curvature-based surface exaggeration technique, which, when coupled with texture, tends to produce over-smoothed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eldad Matmon , Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , Ron Kimmel

While recent image-based human animation methods achieve realistic body and facial motion synthesis, critical gaps remain in fine-grained holistic controllability, multi-scale adaptability, and long-term temporal coherence, which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuxuan Luo , Zhengkun Rong , Lizhen Wang , Longhao Zhang , Tianshu Hu , Yongming Zhu

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

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

Codec Avatars are a recent class of learned, photorealistic face models that accurately represent the geometry and texture of a person in 3D (i.e., for virtual reality), and are almost indistinguishable from video. In this paper we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexander Richard , Colin Lea , Shugao Ma , Juergen Gall , Fernando de la Torre , Yaser Sheikh

Over the last years, 3D morphable models (3DMMs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art methodology for modeling and generating expressive 3D avatars. However, given their reliance on a strict topology, along with their linear nature, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Stathis Galanakis , Jiankang Deng , Athanasios Papaioannou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

Leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion models and score distillation sampling (SDS), recent methods have shown promising results for text-to-3D avatar generation. However, generating high-quality 3D avatars capable of expressive animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yukun Huang , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha , Lei Zhang , Xihui Liu

We present SimXR, a method for controlling a simulated avatar from information (headset pose and cameras) obtained from AR / VR headsets. Due to the challenging viewpoint of head-mounted cameras, the human body is often clipped out of view,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Rawal Khirodkar , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

Personalized 3D avatar editing holds significant promise due to its user-friendliness and availability to applications such as AR/VR and virtual try-ons. Previous studies have explored the feasibility of 3D editing, but often struggle to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hanxi Liu , Yifang Men , Zhouhui Lian

We present Reduced Gaussian Blendshapes Avatar (RGBAvatar), a method for reconstructing photorealistic, animatable head avatars at speeds sufficient for on-the-fly reconstruction. Unlike prior approaches that utilize linear bases from 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Linzhou Li , Yumeng Li , Yanlin Weng , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

Reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 4D head avatars from a single portrait image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While diffusion models have enabled remarkable progress in image and video generation for avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chao Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , Xiang Deng , Jingxiang Sun , Donglin Di , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu