Physavatar: Learning the physics of dressed 3d avatars from visual observations

Y Zheng, Q Zhao, G Yang, W Yifan, D **ang… - … on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications.
Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to …

Snug: Self-supervised neural dynamic garments

I Santesteban, MA Otaduy… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a self-supervised method to learn dynamic 3D deformations of garments worn
by parametric human bodies. State-of-the-art data-driven approaches to model 3D garment …

Hood: Hierarchical graphs for generalized modelling of clothing dynamics

A Grigorev, MJ Black, O Hilliges - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a method that leverages graph neural networks, multi-level message passing,
and unsupervised training to enable real-time prediction of realistic clothing dynamics …

Diffavatar: Simulation-ready garment optimization with differentiable simulation

Y Li, H Chen, E Larionov… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The realism of digital avatars is crucial in enabling telepresence applications with self-
expression and customization. While physical simulations can produce realistic motions for …

Projective dynamics: Fusing constraint projections for fast simulation

S Bouaziz, S Martin, T Liu, L Kavan… - Seminal Graphics Papers …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present a new method for implicit time integration of physical systems. Our approach
builds a bridge between nodal Finite Element methods and Position Based Dynamics …

Differentiable cloth simulation for inverse problems

J Liang, M Lin, V Koltun - Advances in neural information …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose a differentiable cloth simulator that can be embedded as a layer in deep neural
networks. This approach provides an effective, robust framework for modeling cloth …

Dynamic simulation of articulated soft robots

W Huang, X Huang, C Majidi, MK Jawed - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Soft robots are primarily composed of soft materials that can allow for mechanically robust
maneuvers that are not typically possible with conventional rigid robotic systems. However …

Position based dynamics

M Müller, B Heidelberger, M Hennix, J Ratcliff - Journal of Visual …, 2007 - Elsevier
The most popular approaches for the simulation of dynamic systems in computer graphics
are force based. Internal and external forces are accumulated from which accelerations are …

Adaptive anisotropic remeshing for cloth simulation

R Narain, A Samii, JF O'brien - ACM transactions on graphics (TOG), 2012 - dl.acm.org
We present a technique for cloth simulation that dynamically refines and coarsens triangle
meshes so that they automatically conform to the geometric and dynamic detail of the …

Codimensional incremental potential contact

M Li, DM Kaufman, C Jiang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2012.04457, 2020 - arxiv.org
We extend the incremental potential contact (IPC) model for contacting elastodynamics to
resolve systems composed of codimensional DOFs in arbitrary combination. This enables a …