[HTML][HTML] Metaverse: Perspectives from graphics, interactions and visualization

Y Zhao, J Jiang, Y Chen, R Liu, Y Yang, X Xue, S Chen - Visual Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
The metaverse is a visual world that blends the physical world and digital world. At present,
the development of the metaverse is still in the early stage, and there lacks a framework for …

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 …

Clipface: Text-guided editing of textured 3d morphable models

S Aneja, J Thies, A Dai, M Nießner - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We propose ClipFace, a novel self-supervised approach for text-guided editing of textured
3D morphable model of faces. Specifically, we employ user-friendly language prompts to …

Havatar: High-fidelity head avatar via facial model conditioned neural radiance field

X Zhao, L Wang, J Sun, H Zhang, J Suo… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The problem of modeling an animatable 3D human head avatar under lightweight setups is
of significant importance but has not been well solved. Existing 3D representations either …

The realm of metaverse: A survey

JP Venugopal, AAV Subramanian… - … Animation and Virtual …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The next step of digital development is the metaverse, which has the potential to drastically
alter how people use technology and expand the range of services available beyond …

Fitme: Deep photorealistic 3d morphable model avatars

A Lattas, S Moschoglou, S Ploumpis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we introduce FitMe, a facial reflectance model and a differentiable rendering
optimization pipeline, that can be used to acquire high-fidelity renderable human avatars …

Ffhq-uv: Normalized facial uv-texture dataset for 3d face reconstruction

H Bai, D Kang, H Zhang, J Pan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a large-scale facial UV-texture dataset that contains over 50,000 high-quality
texture UV-maps with even illuminations, neutral expressions, and cleaned facial regions …

Relightify: Relightable 3d faces from a single image via diffusion models

FP Papantoniou, A Lattas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Following the remarkable success of diffusion models on image generation, recent works
have also demonstrated their impressive ability to address a number of inverse problems in …

AvatarMe++: Facial Shape and BRDF Inference With Photorealistic Rendering-Aware GANs

A Lattas, S Moschoglou, S Ploumpis… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last years, with the advent of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), many face
analysis tasks have accomplished astounding performance, with applications including, but …

A comprehensive survey on semantic facial attribute editing using generative adversarial networks

A Nickabadi, MS Fard, NM Farid… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Generating random photo-realistic images has experienced tremendous growth during the
past few years due to the advances of the deep convolutional neural networks and …