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New system generates personalized hand avatars in real-time

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Researchers have developed PHAF, a system for generating personalized, photo-realistic hand avatars from just two images. This method significantly reduces texture generation time by 30 times compared to existing techniques, enabling real-time deployment on edge devices. PHAF combines semantic mesh alignment and texture extraction with an inpainting network for smooth, continuous appearance, making it suitable for AR/VR applications. AI

IMPACT Enables real-time personalized hand avatar generation for AR/VR applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for generating personalized hand avatars.

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New system generates personalized hand avatars in real-time

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Meghana Shankar, Akanxit Upadhyay, Anmol Namdev, Green Rosh KS, Pawan Prasad BH ·

    PHAF-Personalized Hand Avatars in a Flash

    arXiv:2606.03420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PHAF-Personalized Hand Avatars in a Flash, a personalized photo-realistic hand avatar which provides high quality multi-view renders from just two images (dorsal and palmar views).Unlike slow optimization-based techniques…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Pawan Prasad BH ·

    PHAF-Personalized Hand Avatars in a Flash

    We present PHAF-Personalized Hand Avatars in a Flash, a personalized photo-realistic hand avatar which provides high quality multi-view renders from just two images (dorsal and palmar views).Unlike slow optimization-based techniques, PHAF generates fast personalized textures for …

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