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ANR: Articulated Neural Rendering for Virtual Avatars

arXiv 2012.12890 ↗First posted 23 Dec 2020cs.CVcited by 55

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The combination of traditional rendering with neural networks in Deferred Neural Rendering (DNR) provides a compelling balance between computational complexity and realism of the resulting images. Using skinned meshes for rendering articulating objects is a natural extension for the DNR framework and would open it up to a plethora of applications. However, in this case the neural shading step must account for deformations that are possibly not captured in the mesh, as well as alignment inaccuracies and dynamics -- which can confound the DNR pipeline. We present Articulated Neural Rendering (ANR), a novel framework based on DNR which explicitly addresses its limitations for virtual human avatars. We show the superiority of ANR not only with respect to DNR but also with methods specialized for avatar creation and animation. In two user studies, we observe a clear preference for our avatar model and we demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on quantitative evaluation metrics. Perceptually, we observe better temporal stability, level of detail and plausibility.

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  4. 2022Drivable Volumetric Avatars using Texel-Aligned Featurescited by 62
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  11. 2021VariTex: Variational Neural Face Texturescited by 30
  12. 2024HAHA: Highly Articulated Gaussian Human Avatars with Textured Mesh Priorcited by 30
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  17. 2023Drivable Avatar Clothing: Faithful Full-Body Telepresence with Dynamic Clothing Driven by Sparse RGB-D Inputcited by 22
  18. 2023CaPhy: Capturing Physical Properties for Animatable Human Avatarscited by 20
  19. 2022Dressing Avatars: Deep Photorealistic Appearance for Physically Simulated Clothingcited by 19
  20. 2023Neural Image-based Avatars: Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Avatar Modelingcited by 19
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  22. 2021Dance In the Wild: Monocular Human Animation with Neural Dynamic Appearance Synthesiscited by 14
  23. 2022Learning Motion-Dependent Appearance for High-Fidelity Rendering of Dynamic Humans from a Single Cameracited by 12
  24. 2022Neural Mesh-Based Graphicscited by 12
  25. 2022HDHumans: A Hybrid Approach for High-fidelity Digital Humanscited by 12
  26. 2022RANA: Relightable Articulated Neural Avatarscited by 12
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  29. 2023Self-supervised Learning of Implicit Shape Representation with Dense Correspondence for Deformable Objectscited by 8
  30. 2025Kinematify: Open-Vocabulary Synthesis of High-DoF Articulated Objectscited by 8
  31. 2023MoRF: Mobile Realistic Fullbody Avatars from a Monocular Videocited by 7
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  35. 2022DRaCoN -- Differentiable Rasterization Conditioned Neural Radiance Fields for Articulated Avatarscited by 2
  36. 2023Efficient Meshy Neural Fields for Animatable Human Avatarscited by 2
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