Advances in neural rendering

A Tewari, J Thies, B Mildenhall… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesizing photo‐realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has
been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are …

Neural actor: Neural free-view synthesis of human actors with pose control

L Liu, M Habermann, V Rudnev, K Sarkar… - ACM transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We propose Neural Actor (NA), a new method for high-quality synthesis of humans from
arbitrary viewpoints and under arbitrary controllable poses. Our method is developed upon …

Tava: Template-free animatable volumetric actors

R Li, J Tanke, M Vo, M Zollhöfer, J Gall… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Coordinate-based volumetric representations have the potential to generate photo-realistic
virtual avatars from images. However, virtual avatars need to be controllable and be …

Ash: Animatable gaussian splats for efficient and photoreal human rendering

H Pang, H Zhu, A Kortylewski… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Real-time rendering of photorealistic and controllable human avatars stands as a
cornerstone in Computer Vision and Graphics. While recent advances in neural implicit …

Deliffas: Deformable light fields for fast avatar synthesis

Y Kwon, L Liu, H Fuchs… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Generating controllable and photorealistic digital human avatars is a long-standing and
important problem in Vision and Graphics. Recent methods have shown great progress in …

Real-time deep dynamic characters

M Habermann, L Liu, W Xu, M Zollhoefer… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
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 …

High-quality streamable free-viewpoint video

A Collet, M Chuang, P Sweeney, D Gillett… - ACM Transactions on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We present the first end-to-end solution to create high-quality free-viewpoint video encoded
as a compact data stream. Our system records performances using a dense set of RGB and …

Neural rendering and reenactment of human actor videos

L Liu, W Xu, M Zollhoefer, H Kim, F Bernard… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user
control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the …

Lookingood: Enhancing performance capture with real-time neural re-rendering

R Martin-Brualla, R Pandey, S Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Motivated by augmented and virtual reality applications such as telepresence, there has
been a recent focus in real-time performance capture of humans under motion. However …