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We introduce X-Dyna, a novel zero-shot, diffusion-based pipeline for animating a single human image using facial expressions and body movements derived from a driving video, that generates realistic, context-aware dynamics for both the…

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Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) remains an attractive solution for real-time rendering of complex light transport effects such as glossy global illumination. After precomputation, we can relight the scene with new environment maps while…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Nithin Raghavan , Yan Xiao , Kai-En Lin , Tiancheng Sun , Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Tzu-Mao Li , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Despite promising progress in face swapping task, realistic swapped images remain elusive, often marred by artifacts, particularly in scenarios involving high pose variation, color differences, and occlusion. To address these issues, we…

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Detailed 3D reconstruction and photo-realistic relighting of digital humans are essential for various applications. To this end, we propose a novel sparse-view 3d human reconstruction framework that closely incorporates the occupancy field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ruichen Zheng , Peng Li , Haoqian Wang , Tao Yu

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We introduce a neural relighting algorithm for captured indoors scenes, that allows interactive free-viewpoint navigation. Our method allows illumination to be changed synthetically, while coherently rendering cast shadows and complex…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Julien Philip , Sébastien Morgenthaler , Michaël Gharbi , George Drettakis

We propose X-NeMo, a novel zero-shot diffusion-based portrait animation pipeline that animates a static portrait using facial movements from a driving video of a different individual. Our work first identifies the root causes of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaochen Zhao , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xiu Li , Linjie Luo , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

We present the first neural relighting approach for rendering high-fidelity personalized hands that can be animated in real-time under novel illumination. Our approach adopts a teacher-student framework, where the teacher learns appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shun Iwase , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Stephen Lombardi , Timur Bagautdinov , Rohan Joshi , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Transparent and reflective objects, which are common in our everyday lives, present a significant challenge to 3D imaging techniques due to their unique visual and optical properties. Faced with these types of objects, RGB-D cameras fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tianyu Sun , Dingchang Hu , Yixiang Dai , Guijin Wang

Producing expressive facial animations from static images is a challenging task. Prior methods relying on explicit geometric priors (e.g., facial landmarks or 3DMM) often suffer from artifacts in cross reenactment and struggle to capture…

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Recent years have witnessed great progress in creating vivid audio-driven portraits from monocular videos. However, how to seamlessly adapt the created video avatars to other scenarios with different backgrounds and lighting conditions…

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Reflection removal of a single image remains a highly challenging task due to the complex entanglement between target scenes and unwanted reflections. Despite significant progress, existing methods are hindered by the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jichen Hu , Chen Yang , Zanwei Zhou , Jiemin Fang , Xiaokang Yang , Qi Tian , Wei Shen

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

We present a novel method for reconstructing personalized 3D human avatars with realistic animation from only a few images. Due to the large variations in body shapes, poses, and cloth types, existing methods mostly require hours of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rong Wang , Fabian Prada , Ziyan Wang , Zhongshi Jiang , Chengxiang Yin , Junxuan Li , Shunsuke Saito , Igor Santesteban , Javier Romero , Rohan Joshi , Hongdong Li , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Reconstructing photorealistic and dynamic portrait avatars from images is essential to many applications including advertising, visual effects, and virtual reality. Depending on the application, avatar reconstruction involves different…

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Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tengfei Wang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Jingjing Shen , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Qifeng Chen , Baining Guo

Despite recent progress in developing animatable full-body avatars, realistic modeling of clothing - one of the core aspects of human self-expression - remains an open challenge. State-of-the-art physical simulation methods can generate…

We present X-Actor, a novel audio-driven portrait animation framework that generates lifelike, emotionally expressive talking head videos from a single reference image and an input audio clip. Unlike prior methods that emphasize lip…

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