Title
ANR: Articulated Neural Rendering for Virtual Avatars
Abstract
The combination of traditional rendering with neural networks in Deferred Neural Rendering (DNR) [38] provides a compelling balance between computational complexity and realism of the resulting images. Using skinned meshes for rendering articulating objects is a natural extension for the DNR framework and would open it up to a plethora of applications. However, in this case the neural shading step must account for deformations that are possibly not captured in the mesh, as well as alignment inaccuracies and dynamics-which can confound the DNR pipeline. We present Articulated Neural Rendering (ANR), a novel framework based on DNR which explicitly addresses its limitations for virtual human avatars. We show the superiority of ANR not only with respect to DNR but also with methods specialized for avatar creation and animation. In two user studies, we observe a clear preference for our avatar model and we demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on quantitative evaluation metrics. Perceptually, we observe better temporal stability, level of detail and plausibility. More results are available at our project page: https : // anr-avatars. github.io.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/CVPR46437.2021.00372
2021 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION, CVPR 2021
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1063-6919
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
amit raj1464.19
Julian Tanke212.04
James Hays33942172.72
Minh Vo410.35
Carsten Stoll510.35
Christoph Lassner652.11