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Capturing and faithfully rendering photo-realistic humans from novel views is a fundamental problem for AR/VR applications. While prior work has shown impressive performance capture results in laboratory settings, it is non-trivial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Phong Nguyen-Ha , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Christoph Lassner , Janne Heikkila , Tony Tung

We present a method for relighting 3D reconstructions of large room-scale environments. Existing solutions for 3D scene relighting often require solving under-determined or ill-conditioned inverse rendering problems, and are as such unable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiaoyan Xing , Philipp Henzler , Junhwa Hur , Runze Li , Jonathan T. Barron , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

Reconstructing the geometry and appearance of objects from photographs taken in different environments is difficult as the illumination and therefore the object appearance vary across captured images. This is particularly challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hadi Alzayer , Philipp Henzler , Jonathan T. Barron , Jia-Bin Huang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

Image-based lighting (IBL) is a widely used technique that renders objects using a high dynamic range image or environment map. However, aggregating the irradiance at the object's surface is computationally expensive, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shizhan Zhu , Shunsuke Saito , Aljaz Bozic , Carlos Aliaga , Trevor Darrell , Christoph Lassner

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D facial texture from a single image is a quite challenging task due to the lack of complete face information and the domain gap between the 3D face and 2D image. Further, obtaining re-renderable 3D faces has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Mingxin Yang , Jianwei Guo , Zhanglin Cheng , Xiaopeng Zhang , Dong-Ming Yan

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

Recent advances in neural rendering have shown great potential for reconstructing scenes from multiview images. However, accurately representing objects with glossy surfaces remains a challenge for existing methods. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ruofan Liang , Huiting Chen , Chunlin Li , Fan Chen , Selvakumar Panneer , Nandita Vijaykumar

We propose a generative framework, FaceLit, capable of generating a 3D face that can be rendered at various user-defined lighting conditions and views, learned purely from 2D images in-the-wild without any manual annotation. Unlike existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Oncel Tuzel

In this work, a system for creating a relightable 3D portrait of a human head is presented. Our neural pipeline operates on a sequence of frames captured by a smartphone camera with the flash blinking (flash-no flash sequence). A coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Artem Sevastopolsky , Savva Ignatiev , Gonzalo Ferrer , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Changpu Li , Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

In this study, our goal is to create interactive avatar agents that can autonomously plan and animate nuanced facial movements realistically, from both visual and behavioral perspectives. Given high-level inputs about the environment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duomin Wang , Bin Dai , Yu Deng , Baoyuan Wang

We present AvatarPopUp, a method for fast, high quality 3D human avatar generation from different input modalities, such as images and text prompts and with control over the generated pose and shape. The common theme is the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Nikos Kolotouros , Thiemo Alldieck , Enric Corona , Eduard Gabriel Bazavan , Cristian Sminchisescu

The ability to generate diverse 3D articulated head avatars is vital to a plethora of applications, including augmented reality, cinematography, and education. Recent work on text-guided 3D object generation has shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alexander W. Bergman , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein

Subject-driven image inpainting has recently gained prominence in image editing with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Beyond image guidance, recent studies have explored incorporating text guidance to achieve identity-preserved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yicheng Yang , Pengxiang Li , Lu Zhang , Liqian Ma , Ping Hu , Siyu Du , Yunzhi Zhuge , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

While modern diffusion models excel at generating diverse single images, extending this to sequential generation reveals a fundamental challenge: balancing narrative dynamism with multi-character coherence. Existing methods often falter at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qi Zhao , Jun Chen , Ivor Tsang , Guang Dai