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Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

We present a learning method for predicting animation skeletons for input 3D models of articulated characters. In contrast to previous approaches that fit pre-defined skeleton templates or predict fixed sets of joints, our method produces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Zhan Xu , Yang Zhou , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Karan Singh

The rapid evolution of 3D content creation, encompassing both AI-powered methods and traditional workflows, is driving an unprecedented demand for automated rigging solutions that can keep pace with the increasing complexity and diversity…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jia-Peng Zhang , Cheng-Feng Pu , Meng-Hao Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Min Hu

Although human reconstruction typically results in human-specific avatars, recent 3D scene reconstruction techniques utilizing pixel-aligned features show promise in generalizing to new scenes. Applying these techniques to human avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Zhi Hou , Dacheng Tao

Existing generative models for 3D shapes can synthesize high-fidelity and visually plausible shapes. For certain classes of shapes that have undergone an engineering design process, the realism of the shape is tightly coupled with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yingxuan You , Chen Zhao , Hantao Zhang , Ming Xu , Pascal Fua

This work make the first attempt to generate articulated human motion sequence from a single image. On the one hand, we utilize paired inputs including human skeleton information as motion embedding and a single human image as appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yichao Yan , Jingwei Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang

The creation of high-fidelity computer-generated (CG) characters used in film and gaming requires intensive manual labor and a comprehensive set of facial assets to be captured with complex hardware, resulting in high cost and long…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Jiaman Li , Zhengfei Kuang , Yajie Zhao , Mingming He , Karl Bladin , Hao Li

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

While recent advancements have shown remarkable progress in general 3D shape generation models, the challenge of leveraging these approaches to automatically generate wearable 3D assets remains unexplored. To this end, we present BAG, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhongjin Luo , Yang Li , Mingrui Zhang , Senbo Wang , Han Yan , Xibin Song , Taizhang Shang , Wei Mao , Hongdong Li , Xiaoguang Han , Pan Ji

We introduce Meta 3D Gen (3DGen), a new state-of-the-art, fast pipeline for text-to-3D asset generation. 3DGen offers 3D asset creation with high prompt fidelity and high-quality 3D shapes and textures in under a minute. It supports…

Despite significant progress in 4D generation, rig and motion, the core structural and dynamic components of animation are typically modeled as separate problems. Existing pipelines rely on ground-truth skeletons and skinning weights for…

We present StdGEN++, a novel and comprehensive system for generating high-fidelity, semantically decomposed 3D characters from diverse inputs. Existing 3D generative methods often produce monolithic meshes that lack the structural…

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Recent advances in 3D-native generative models have accelerated asset creation for games, film, and design. However, most methods still rely primarily on image or text conditioning and lack fine-grained, cross-modal controls, which limits…

3D characters are essential to modern creative industries, but making them animatable often demands extensive manual work in tasks like rigging and skinning. Existing automatic rigging tools face several limitations, including the necessity…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhiyang Guo , Jinxu Xiang , Kai Ma , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Ran Zhang

Given a single image of a general object such as a chair, could we also restore its articulated 3D shape similar to human modeling, so as to animate its plausible articulations and diverse motions? This is an interesting new question that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ji Yang , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Zhenbo Yu , Xingyu Li , Bingbing Ni , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Rigged 3D assets are fundamental to 3D deformation and animation. However, existing 3D generation methods face challenges in generating animatable geometry, while rigging techniques lack fine-grained structural control over skeleton…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ruisi Zhao , Haoren Zheng , Zongxin Yang , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

3D modeling is shifting from static visual representations toward physical, articulated assets that can be directly used in simulation and interaction. However, most existing 3D generation methods overlook key physical and articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziang Cao , Fangzhou Hong , Zhaoxi Chen , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu

Inspired by generative paradigms in image and video, 3D shape generation has made notable progress, enabling the rapid synthesis of high-fidelity 3D assets from a single image. However, current methods still face challenges, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yangguang Li , Xianglong He , Zi-Xin Zou , Zexiang Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Ding Liang , Yan-Pei Cao

Skinning and rigging are fundamental components in animation, articulated object reconstruction, motion transfer, and 4D generation. Existing approaches predominantly rely on Linear Blend Skinning (LBS), due to its simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hao Zhang , Haolan Xu , Chun Feng , Varun Jampani , Narendra Ahuja

Simulation-ready physical 3D assets have emerged as a promising direction owing to their broad applicability in downstream tasks. However, most existing 3D generation methods either neglect physical properties or are limited to a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ziang Cao , Yinghao Liu , Haitian Li , Runmao Yao , Fangzhou Hong , Zhaoxi Chen , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu