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We propose a deep videorealistic 3D human character model displaying highly realistic shape, motion, and dynamic appearance learned in a new weakly supervised way from multi-view imagery. In contrast to previous work, our controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

We introduce PICA, a novel representation for high-fidelity animatable clothed human avatars with physics-accurate dynamics, even for loose clothing. Previous neural rendering-based representations of animatable clothed humans typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Bo Peng , Yunfan Tao , Haoyu Zhan , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

To represent people in mixed reality applications for collaboration and communication, we need to generate realistic and faithful avatar poses. However, the signal streams that can be applied for this task from head-mounted devices (HMDs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Sadegh Aliakbarian , Pashmina Cameron , Federica Bogo , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Thomas J. Cashman

Recent advances in digital avatar technology have enabled the generation of compelling virtual characters, but deploying these avatars on compute-constrained devices poses significant challenges for achieving realistic garment deformations.…

Physically-based simulation is a powerful approach for 3D facial animation as the resulting deformations are governed by physical constraints, allowing to easily resolve self-collisions, respond to external forces and perform realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Lingchen Yang , Gaspard Zoss , Prashanth Chandran , Markus Gross , Barbara Solenthaler , Eftychios Sifakis , Derek Bradley

We present a real-time cloth animation method for dressing virtual humans of various shapes and poses. Our approach formulates the clothing deformation as a high-dimensional function of body shape parameters and pose parameters. In order to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Nannan Wu , Qianwen Chao , Yanzhen Chen , Weiwei Xu , Chen Liu , Dinesh Manocha , Wenxin Sun , Yi Han , Xinran Yao , Xiaogang Jin

Appearance of dressed humans undergoes a complex geometric transformation induced not only by the static pose but also by its dynamics, i.e., there exists a number of cloth geometric configurations given a pose depending on the way it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Jae Shin Yoon , Duygu Ceylan , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Jingwan Lu , Jimei Yang , Zhixin Shu , Hyun Soo Park

Text-driven avatar generation has gained significant attention owing to its convenience. However, existing methods typically model the human body with all garments as a single 3D model, limiting its usability, such as clothing replacement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jingyu Zhuang , Di Kang , Linchao Bao , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

We present a learning-based method for building driving-signal aware full-body avatars. Our model is a conditional variational autoencoder that can be animated with incomplete driving signals, such as human pose and facial keypoints, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Timur Bagautdinov , Chenglei Wu , Tomas Simon , Fabian Prada , Takaaki Shiratori , Shih-En Wei , Weipeng Xu , Yaser Sheikh , Jason Saragih

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Daniele Reda , Jungdam Won , Yuting Ye , Michiel van de Panne , Alexander Winkler

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jian Shu , Nanjie Yao , Gangjian Zhang , Junlong Ren , Yu Feng , Hao Wang

We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marcel C. Bühler , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal

Generating realistic human geometry animations remains a challenging task, as it requires modeling natural clothing dynamics with fine-grained geometric details under limited data. To address these challenges, we propose two novel designs.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiangjun Tang , Biao Zhang , Peter Wonka

We present SCANimate, an end-to-end trainable framework that takes raw 3D scans of a clothed human and turns them into an animatable avatar. These avatars are driven by pose parameters and have realistic clothing that moves and deforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Shunsuke Saito , Jinlong Yang , Qianli Ma , Michael J. Black

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

3D representation and reconstruction of human bodies have been studied for a long time in computer vision. Traditional methods rely mostly on parametric statistical linear models, limiting the space of possible bodies to linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Sandro Lombardi , Bangbang Yang , Tianxing Fan , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

Generative adversarial networks achieve great performance in photorealistic image synthesis in various domains, including human images. However, they usually employ latent vectors that encode the sampled outputs globally. This does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt