collaborators

6 papers

cs.GR2026

SkinCells: Sparse Skinning using Voronoi Cells

Egor Larionov, Igor Santesteban, Hsiao-yu Chen +6

For decades, real-time skinning has been the cornerstone of character animation in visual effects and games. Despite its importance, the creation of animatable digital assets remai…

cs.GR2025

MHR: Momentum Human Rig

Aaron Ferguson, Ahmed A. A. Osman, Berta Bescos +44

We present MHR, a parametric human body model that combines the decoupled skeleton/shape paradigm of ATLAS with a flexible, modern rig and pose corrective system inspired by the Mo…

cs.CV2025

SqueezeMe: Mobile-Ready Distillation of Gaussian Full-Body Avatars

Forrest Iandola, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Igor Santesteban +7

Gaussian-based human avatars have achieved an unprecedented level of visual fidelity. However, existing approaches based on high-capacity neural networks typically require a deskto…

cs.CV2025

FRESA: Feedforward Reconstruction of Personalized Skinned Avatars from Few Images

Rong Wang, Fabian Prada, Ziyan Wang +10

We present a novel method for reconstructing personalized 3D human avatars with realistic animation from only a few images. Due to the large variations in body shapes, poses, and c…

cs.GR2025

PGC: Physics-Based Gaussian Cloth from a Single Pose

Michelle Guo, Matt Jen-Yuan Chiang, Igor Santesteban +9

We introduce a novel approach to reconstruct simulation-ready garments with intricate appearance. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often struggle to balance the need f…

cs.CV2025

Relightable Full-Body Gaussian Codec Avatars

Shaofei Wang, Tomas Simon, Igor Santesteban +15

We propose Relightable Full-Body Gaussian Codec Avatars, a new approach for modeling relightable full-body avatars with fine-grained details including face and hands. The unique ch…