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We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

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We propose RANA, a relightable and articulated neural avatar for the photorealistic synthesis of humans under arbitrary viewpoints, body poses, and lighting. We only require a short video clip of the person to create the avatar and assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Umar Iqbal , Akin Caliskan , Koki Nagano , Sameh Khamis , Pavlo Molchanov , Jan Kautz

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

Being able to relight human performance is a fundamental task for post production and content creation. We present BodyReLux, a subject-specific video diffusion-based framework for relighting full-body human performances in a temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Li Ma , Mingming He , Xueming Yu , David M. George , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Paul Debevec , Julien Philip

Volumetric video relighting is essential for bringing captured performances into virtual worlds, but current approaches struggle to deliver temporally stable, production-ready results. Diffusion-based intrinsic decomposition methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Elisabeth Jüttner , Janelle Pfeifer , Leona Krath , Stefan Korfhage , Hannah Dröge , Matthias B. Hullin , Markus Plack

We introduce a novel approach to single-view face relighting in the wild, addressing challenges such as global illumination and cast shadows. A common scheme in recent methods involves intrinsically decomposing an input image into 3D shape,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Puntawat Ponglertnapakorn , Nontawat Tritrong , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Our goal is to efficiently learn personalized animatable 3D head avatars from videos that are geometrically accurate, realistic, relightable, and compatible with current rendering systems. While 3D meshes enable efficient processing and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shrisha Bharadwaj , Yufeng Zheng , Otmar Hilliges , Michael J. Black , Victoria Fernandez-Abrevaya

Photo-realistic video portrait reenactment benefits virtual production and numerous VR/AR experiences. The task remains challenging as the reenacted expression should match the source while the lighting should be adjustable to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Youjia Wang , Taotao Zhou , Minzhang Li , Teng Xu , Minye Wu , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

The fidelity of relighting is bounded by both geometry and appearance representations. For geometry, both mesh and volumetric approaches have difficulty modeling intricate structures like 3D hair geometry. For appearance, existing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shunsuke Saito , Gabriel Schwartz , Tomas Simon , Junxuan Li , Giljoo Nam

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

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Recovering photorealistic and drivable full-body avatars is crucial for numerous applications, including virtual reality, 3D games, and tele-presence. Most methods, whether reconstruction or generation, require large numbers of human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Zhaolong Wang , Xiangru Lin , Zongqing Lu , Yuxi Zhao , Hanqing Wei , Jingrui Ye , Yu Zhang , Zhijing Shao

Single-image relighting is a challenging task that involves reasoning about the complex interplay between geometry, materials, and lighting. Many prior methods either support only specific categories of images, such as portraits, or require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haian Jin , Yuan Li , Fujun Luan , Yuanbo Xiangli , Sai Bi , Kai Zhang , Zexiang Xu , Jin Sun , Noah Snavely

Controlling illumination during video post-production is a crucial yet elusive goal in computational photography. Existing methods often lack flexibility, restricting users to certain relighting models. This paper introduces ReLumix, a…

Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a standard approach to reconstruct and render photorealistic 3D head avatars. A major challenge is to relight the avatars to match any scene illumination. For high quality relighting, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yingyan Xu , Pramod Rao , Sebastian Weiss , Gaspard Zoss , Markus Gross , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann , Derek Bradley

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

Reconstructing a renderable 3D model from images is a useful but challenging task. Recent feedforward 3D reconstruction methods have demonstrated remarkable success in efficiently recovering geometry, but still cannot accurately model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zekai Gu , Shuoxuan Feng , Yansong Wang , Hanzhuo Huang , Zhongshuo Du , Chengfeng Zhao , Chengwei Ren , Peng Wang , Yuan Liu

We introduce BecomingLit, a novel method for reconstructing relightable, high-resolution head avatars that can be rendered from novel viewpoints at interactive rates. Therefore, we propose a new low-cost light stage capture setup, tailored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jonathan Schmidt , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Niessner

Creating relightable and animatable avatars from multi-view or monocular videos is a challenging task for digital human creation and virtual reality applications. Previous methods rely on neural radiance fields or ray tracing, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , He Wang , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

An increasingly common approach for creating photo-realistic digital avatars is through the use of volumetric neural fields. The original neural radiance field (NeRF) allowed for impressive novel view synthesis of static heads when trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yingyan Xu , Prashanth Chandran , Sebastian Weiss , Markus Gross , Gaspard Zoss , Derek Bradley