Im avatar: Implicit morphable head avatars from videos

Y Zheng, VF Abrevaya, MC Bühler… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over
expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric …

Morphable face models-an open framework

T Gerig, A Morel-Forster, C Blumer… - 2018 13th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel open-source pipeline for face registration based on
Gaussian processes as well as an application to face image analysis. Non-rigid registration …

3d morphable face models—past, present, and future

B Egger, WAP Smith, A Tewari, S Wuhrer… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we provide a detailed survey of 3D Morphable Face Models over the 20 years
since they were first proposed. The challenges in building and applying these models …

Cnn-based real-time dense face reconstruction with inverse-rendered photo-realistic face images

Y Guo, J Cai, B Jiang, J Zheng - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the powerfulness of convolution neural networks (CNN), CNN based face
reconstruction has recently shown promising performance in reconstructing detailed face …

Photo-realistic facial details synthesis from single image

A Chen, Z Chen, G Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a single-image 3D face synthesis technique that can handle challenging facial
expressions while recovering fine geometric details. Our technique employs expression …

Learning disentangled avatars with hybrid 3d representations

Y Feng, W Liu, T Bolkart, J Yang, M Pollefeys… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Tremendous efforts have been made to learn animatable and photorealistic human avatars.
Towards this end, both explicit and implicit 3D representations are heavily studied for a …

Robust category-level 6d pose estimation with coarse-to-fine rendering of neural features

W Ma, A Wang, A Yuille, A Kortylewski - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
We consider the problem of category-level 6D pose estimation from a single RGB image.
Our approach represents an object category as a cuboid mesh and learns a generative …

Towards racially unbiased skin tone estimation via scene disambiguation

H Feng, T Bolkart, J Tesch, MJ Black… - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Virtual facial avatars will play an increasingly important role in immersive communication,
games and the metaverse, and it is therefore critical that they be inclusive. This requires …

Nemo: Neural mesh models of contrastive features for robust 3d pose estimation

A Wang, A Kortylewski, A Yuille - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.12378, 2021 - arxiv.org
3D pose estimation is a challenging but important task in computer vision. In this work, we
show that standard deep learning approaches to 3D pose estimation are not robust when …

Occlusion-aware 3d morphable models and an illumination prior for face image analysis

B Egger, S Schönborn, A Schneider… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Faces in natural images are often occluded by a variety of objects. We propose a fully
automated, probabilistic and occlusion-aware 3D morphable face model adaptation …