A survey on big data technologies and their applications to the metaverse: Past, current and future

H Zhang, S Lee, Y Lu, X Yu, H Lu - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of big data technologies, which have been applied extensively in various
areas, has become one of the key factors affecting modern society, especially in the virtual …

Humanrf: High-fidelity neural radiance fields for humans in motion

M Işık, M Rünz, M Georgopoulos, T Khakhulin… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Representing human performance at high-fidelity is an essential building block in diverse
applications, such as film production, computer games or videoconferencing. To close the …

Instant volumetric head avatars

W Zielonka, T Bolkart, J Thies - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for
reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic …

NeRF-Art: Text-Driven Neural Radiance Fields Stylization

C Wang, R Jiang, M Chai, M He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a powerful representation of 3D scenes, the neural radiance field (NeRF) enables high-
quality novel view synthesis from multi-view images. Stylizing NeRF, however, remains …

Matting anything

J Li, J Jain, H Shi - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper we propose the Matting Anything Model (MAM) an efficient and versatile
framework for estimating the alpha matte of any instance in an image with flexible and …

4k4d: Real-time 4d view synthesis at 4k resolution

Z Xu, S Peng, H Lin, G He, J Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper targets high-fidelity and real-time view synthesis of dynamic 3D scenes at 4K
resolution. Recent methods on dynamic view synthesis have shown impressive rendering …

Monohuman: Animatable human neural field from monocular video

Z Yu, W Cheng, X Liu, W Wu… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Animating virtual avatars with free-view control is crucial for various applications like virtual
reality and digital entertainment. Previous studies have attempted to utilize the …

Autodecoding latent 3d diffusion models

E Ntavelis, A Siarohin, K Olszewski… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Diffusion-based methods have shown impressive visual results in the text-to-image domain.
They first learn a latent space using an autoencoder, then run a denoising process on the …

Authentic volumetric avatars from a phone scan

C Cao, T Simon, JK Kim, G Schwartz… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Creating photorealistic avatars of existing people currently requires extensive person-
specific data capture, which is usually only accessible to the VFX industry and not the …

Highly accurate dichotomous image segmentation

X Qin, H Dai, X Hu, DP Fan, L Shao… - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
We present a systematic study on a new task called dichotomous image segmentation (DIS),
which aims to segment highly accurate objects from natural images. To this end, we …