ANR: Articulated Neural Rendering for Virtual Avatars

3 Facebook Reality Labs 4 Epic Games Figure 1: We present Articulated Neural Rendering (ANR), a rendering framework capable of producing highly realistic avatars. Similar to Deferred Neural Rendering (DNR) [38], ANR uses neural networks to convert a latent texture on a coarse mesh (left) into an RGB image (right). Unlike DNR, which is ineffective when the mesh geometry is inaccurate or deforms during motion, ANR explicitly accounts for such geometric misalignment and pose-dependent deformation.