4 papers
ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions
Shivangi Aneja, Sebastian Weiss, Irene Baeza +4
Generating high-fidelity real-time animated sequences of photorealistic 3D head avatars is important for many graphics applications, including immersive telepresence and movies. Th…
Spline-based Transformers
Prashanth Chandran, Agon Serifi, Markus Gross +1
We introduce Spline-based Transformers, a novel class of Transformer models that eliminate the need for positional encoding. Inspired by workflows using splines in computer animati…
Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Image Animation
Xinya Ji, Gaspard Zoss, Prashanth Chandran +4
2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enha…
Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild
Yingyan Xu, Kate Gadola, Prashanth Chandran +4
We present a new method for reconstructing the appearance properties of human faces from a lightweight capture procedure in an unconstrained environment. Our method recovers the su…