AvatarReX: Real-time Expressive Full-body Avatars

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04789v1
• Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 15:43:00 GMT
• Title: AvatarReX: Real-time Expressive Full-body Avatars
• Authors: Zerong Zheng, Xiaochen Zhao, Hongwen Zhang, Boning Liu, Yebin Liu
• Abstract summary: 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 together, but also supports real-time animation and rendering.
• Score: 35.09470037950997
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 together, but also supports real-time animation and rendering. To this end, we propose a compositional avatar representation, where the body, hands and the face are separately modeled in a way that the structural prior from parametric mesh templates is properly utilized without compromising representation flexibility. Furthermore, we disentangle the geometry and appearance for each part. With these technical designs, we propose a dedicated deferred rendering pipeline, which can be executed in real-time framerate to synthesize high-quality free-view images. The disentanglement of geometry and appearance also allows us to design a two-pass training strategy that combines volume rendering and surface rendering for network training. In this way, patch-level supervision can be applied to force the network to learn sharp appearance details on the basis of geometry estimation. Overall, our method enables automatic construction of expressive full-body avatars with real-time rendering capability, and can generate photo-realistic images with dynamic details for novel body motions and facial expressions.

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