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Detailed Human Avatars from Monocular Video

arXiv 1808.01338 ↗First posted 3 Aug 2018cs.CVcited by 109

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present a novel method for high detail-preserving human avatar creation from monocular video. A parameterized body model is refined and optimized to maximally resemble subjects from a video showing them from all sides. Our avatars feature a natural face, hairstyle, clothes with garment wrinkles, and high-resolution texture. Our paper contributes facial landmark and shading-based human body shape refinement, a semantic texture prior, and a novel texture stitching strategy, resulting in the most sophisticated-looking human avatars obtained from a single video to date. Numerous results show the robustness and versatility of our method. A user study illustrates its superiority over the state-of-the-art in terms of identity preservation, level of detail, realism, and overall user preference.

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  1. 2021ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normalscited by 283
  2. 2022BEHAVE: Dataset and Method for Tracking Human Object Interactionscited by 246
  3. 2021A-NeRF: Articulated Neural Radiance Fields for Learning Human Shape, Appearance, and Posecited by 233
  4. 2021SNARF: Differentiable Forward Skinning for Animating Non-Rigid Neural Implicit Shapescited by 221
  5. 2021Neural Head Avatars from Monocular RGB Videoscited by 212
  6. 2024SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splattingcited by 171
  7. 2021SMPLicit: Topology-aware Generative Model for Clothed Peoplecited by 154
  8. 2022InstantAvatar: Learning Avatars from Monocular Video in 60 Secondscited by 138
  9. 2021Real-time Deep Dynamic Characterscited by 133
  10. 2023GART: Gaussian Articulated Template Modelscited by 121
  11. 2022Structured Local Radiance Fields for Human Avatar Modelingcited by 116
  12. 2021Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videoscited by 109
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  1. 2023TeCH: Text-guided Reconstruction of Lifelike Clothed Humanscited by 104
  2. 2023ASH: Animatable Gaussian Splats for Efficient and Photoreal Human Renderingcited by 104
  3. 2022CHORE: Contact, Human and Object REconstruction from a single RGB imagecited by 95
  4. 2023SHERF: Generalizable Human NeRF from a Single Imagecited by 88
  5. 2022SNUG: Self-Supervised Neural Dynamic Garmentscited by 83
  6. 2022Capturing and Animation of Body and Clothing from Monocular Videocited by 83
  7. 2023AvatarReX: Real-time Expressive Full-body Avatarscited by 83
  8. 2021Driving-Signal Aware Full-Body Avatarscited by 81
  9. 2023SIFU: Side-view Conditioned Implicit Function for Real-world Usable Clothed Human Reconstructioncited by 77
  10. 2022Unsupervised Learning of Efficient Geometry-Aware Neural Articulated Representationscited by 65
  11. 2025LHM: Large Animatable Human Reconstruction Model from a Single Image in Secondscited by 61
  12. 2023Visibility Aware Human-Object Interaction Tracking from Single RGB Cameracited by 58
  13. 2024HumanSplat: Generalizable Single-Image Human Gaussian Splatting with Structure Priorscited by 54
  14. 2021Dynamic Surface Function Networks for Clothed Human Bodiescited by 44
  15. 2023Learning Disentangled Avatars with Hybrid 3D Representationscited by 44
  16. 2022DiffuStereo: High Quality Human Reconstruction via Diffusion-based Stereo Using Sparse Camerascited by 43
  17. 2023Global-correlated 3D-decoupling Transformer for Clothed Avatar Reconstructioncited by 42
  18. 2021StereoPIFu: Depth Aware Clothed Human Digitization via Stereo Visioncited by 38
  19. 2023High-Fidelity Clothed Avatar Reconstruction from a Single Imagecited by 38
  20. 2021Learning Anchored Unsigned Distance Functions with Gradient Direction Alignment for Single-view Garment Reconstructioncited by 36
  21. 2024GaussianBody: Clothed Human Reconstruction via 3d Gaussian Splattingcited by 36
  22. 2024AniGS: Animatable Gaussian Avatar from a Single Image with Inconsistent Gaussian Reconstructioncited by 36
  23. 20213D Human Texture Estimation from a Single Image with Transformerscited by 35
  24. 2023SplatArmor: Articulated Gaussian splatting for animatable humans from monocular RGB videoscited by 35
  25. 2021Birds of a Feather: Capturing Avian Shape Models from Imagescited by 30
  26. 2024HAHA: Highly Articulated Gaussian Human Avatars with Textured Mesh Priorcited by 30
  27. 2023DINAR: Diffusion Inpainting of Neural Textures for One-Shot Human Avatarscited by 28
  28. 2023TriHuman : A Real-time and Controllable Tri-plane Representation for Detailed Human Geometry and Appearance Synthesiscited by 28
  29. 2023Animatable and Relightable Gaussians for High-fidelity Human Avatar Modelingcited by 27
  30. 2021Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video in the Wildcited by 26
  31. 2023D-IF: Uncertainty-aware Human Digitization via Implicit Distribution Fieldcited by 26
  32. 2021Garment4D: Garment Reconstruction from Point Cloud Sequencescited by 23
  33. 2023HumanRef: Single Image to 3D Human Generation via Reference-Guided Diffusioncited by 23
  34. 2022Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Controllable Avatarscited by 19
  35. 2024UV Gaussians: Joint Learning of Mesh Deformation and Gaussian Textures for Human Avatar Modelingcited by 17
  36. 2024iHuman: Instant Animatable Digital Humans From Monocular Videoscited by 17
  37. 2024PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albumscited by 16
  38. 2022H4D: Human 4D Modeling by Learning Neural Compositional Representationcited by 15

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