State of the art on neural rendering

A Tewari, O Fried, J Thies, V Sitzmann… - Computer Graphics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient rendering of photo‐realistic virtual worlds is a long standing effort of computer
graphics. Modern graphics techniques have succeeded in synthesizing photo‐realistic …

Advances in neural rendering

A Tewari, J Thies, B Mildenhall… - Computer Graphics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesizing photo‐realistic images and videos is at the heart of computer graphics and has
been the focus of decades of research. Traditionally, synthetic images of a scene are …

Animatable neural radiance fields for modeling dynamic human bodies

S Peng, J Dong, Q Wang, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a
multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming …

Neural actor: Neural free-view synthesis of human actors with pose control

L Liu, M Habermann, V Rudnev, K Sarkar… - ACM transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We propose Neural Actor (NA), a new method for high-quality synthesis of humans from
arbitrary viewpoints and under arbitrary controllable poses. Our method is developed upon …

Non-rigid neural radiance fields: Reconstruction and novel view synthesis of a dynamic scene from monocular video

E Tretschk, A Tewari, V Golyanik… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract We present Non-Rigid Neural Radiance Fields (NR-NeRF), a reconstruction and
novel view synthesis approach for general non-rigid dynamic scenes. Our approach takes …

Structured local radiance fields for human avatar modeling

Z Zheng, H Huang, T Yu, H Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
It is extremely challenging to create an animatable clothed human avatar from RGB videos,
especially for loose clothes due to the difficulties in motion modeling. To address this …

Styleflow: Attribute-conditioned exploration of stylegan-generated images using conditional continuous normalizing flows

R Abdal, P Zhu, NJ Mitra, P Wonka - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
High-quality, diverse, and photorealistic images can now be generated by unconditional
GANs (eg, StyleGAN). However, limited options exist to control the generation process using …

Space-time neural irradiance fields for free-viewpoint video

W Xian, JB Huang, J Kopf… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a method that learns a spatiotemporal neural irradiance field for dynamic scenes
from a single video. Our learned representation enables free-viewpoint rendering of the …

H-nerf: Neural radiance fields for rendering and temporal reconstruction of humans in motion

H Xu, T Alldieck… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present neural radiance fields for rendering and temporal (4D) reconstruction of humans
in motion (H-NeRF), as captured by a sparse set of cameras or even from a monocular …

Avatarrex: Real-time expressive full-body avatars

Z Zheng, X Zhao, H Zhang, B Liu, Y Liu - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present AvatarReX, a new method for learning NeRF-based full-body avatars from video
data. The learnt avatar not only provides expressive control of the body, hands and the face …