Rendering Humans behind Occlusions

Rendering the visual appearance of moving humans from occluded monocular videos is a challenging task. Most existing research renders 3D humans under ideal conditions, requiring a clear and unobstructed scene. Those previous methods cannot be used to render humans in real-world scenes where obstacles may block the camera's view and lead to partial occlusions. In this work, we present Wild2Avatar, a neural rendering approach catered for occluded in-the-wild monocular videos. We propose occlusion-aware scene parameterization for decoupling the scene into three parts - occlusion, human, and background. Additionally, extensive objective functions are designed to help enforce the decoupling of the human from both the occlusion and the background and to ensure the completeness of the human model. Wild2Avatar is verified with experiments on 14 challenging in-the-wild videos.

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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3603154
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Human Motion and Animation
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Rendering Humans behind Occlusions

Kazuki Kozuka, Ehsan Adeli, Scott L. Delp, Tiange Xiang et al.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Human Motion and Animation
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Rendering Humans behind Occlusions

Kazuki Kozuka, Ehsan Adeli, Scott L. Delp, Tiange Xiang, Li Fei-Fei, Adam Sun
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Abstract

Rendering the visual appearance of moving humans from occluded monocular videos is a challenging task. Most existing research renders 3D humans under ideal conditions, requiring a clear and unobstructed scene. Those previous methods cannot be used to render humans in real-world scenes where obstacles may block the camera's view and lead to partial occlusions. In this work, we present Wild2Avatar, a neural rendering approach catered for occluded in-the-wild monocular videos. We propose occlusion-aware scene parameterization for decoupling the scene into three parts - occlusion, human, and background. Additionally, extensive objective functions are designed to help enforce the decoupling of the human from both the occlusion and the background and to ensure the completeness of the human model. Wild2Avatar is verified with experiments on 14 challenging in-the-wild videos.

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