As extended reality becomes more popular for social interaction and entertainment, 3D avatars must represent the full diversity of body types. Most 3D avatar systems only support normative bodies and do not accurately depict people with limb differences, amputations, or other morphological variations.
arXiv:2607. 11512v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As extended reality becomes more popular for social interaction and entertainment, 3D avatars must represent the full diversity of body types.
Recent advances in generative models and technological innovations have significantly addressed the fundamental challenges of character image animation. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on character animation from a single reference image, substantially limiting their applicability in scenarios such as multiple character interaction animation.
arXiv:2605. 05367v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing 3D sign language avatar reconstruction methods are developed and evaluated exclusively on Western sign languages, and no 3D parametric annotations exist for any Arabic Sign Language dataset, a gap that blocks the development of avatar-based accessibility applications for the Arab Deaf community.
Parametric models of the human head are essential tools traditionally used in computer vision and graphics for animation, rendering, and reconstruction. More recently, they serve as crucial conditioning signals within generative large vision models, allowing for tight spatial control of generated imagery.
arXiv:2606. 31981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating photorealistic, animatable 3D human avatars from monocular images still largely depends on Linear Blend Skinning (LBS) and parametric body models, which constrain expressivity and often introduce artifacts due to imperfect fitting.
arXiv:2508. 08467v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their potential to enhance children's learning experiences, AI-enabled AR technologies are predominantly used in ways that position children as consumers rather than creators.
arXiv:2606. 30347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present FFAvatar, a Transformer-based 3D Gaussian framework for fast construction of high-quality and animatable 4D head avatars from one or more reference portrait images.
Driven by the availability of large-scale datasets, Human Pose Estimation (HPE) plays a critical role in numerous downstream tasks. However, mainstream benchmarks exhibit severe representation bias, predominantly featuring able-bodied individuals.
Text-to-image (T2I) models have been shown to exhibit social biases. Prior work has mainly focused on gender, skin tone, and cultural representation within restricted occupational associations, and emerging benchmarks increasingly incorporate these dimensions.
arXiv:2607. 03731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating 3D assets for virtual reality requires modeling expertise, which restricts the authorship of immersive experiences.
arXiv:2601. 00664v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation.
arXiv:2606. 15647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing healthcare efficiency across a wide range of medical applications.