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We present FHAvatar, a novel framework for reconstructing 3D Gaussian avatars with composable face and hair components from an arbitrary number of views. Unlike previous approaches that couple facial and hair representations within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yujie Sun , Zhuoqiang Cai , Chaoyue Niu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv , Fan Wu

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

We propose PFAvatar (Pose-Fusion Avatar), a new method that reconstructs high-quality 3D avatars from Outfit of the Day(OOTD) photos, which exhibit diverse poses, occlusions, and complex backgrounds. Our method consists of two stages: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Dianbing Xi , Guoyuan An , Jingsen Zhu , Zhijian Liu , Yuan Liu , Ruiyuan Zhang , Jiayuan Lu , Yuchi Huo , Rui Wang

With the rapid advancement of 3D representation techniques and generative models, substantial progress has been made in reconstructing full-body 3D avatars from a single image. However, this task remains fundamentally ill-posedness due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Gaofeng Liu , Hengsen Li , Ruoyu Gao , Xuetong Li , Zhiyuan Ma , Tao Fang

To enable realistic experience in AR/VR and digital entertainment, we present the first point-based human avatar model that embodies the entirety expressive range of digital humans. We employ two MLPs to model pose-dependent deformation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Lixiang Lin , Jianke Zhu

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

We propose a compositional method for constructing a complete 3D head avatar from a single image. Prior one-shot holistic approaches frequently fail to produce realistic hair dynamics during animation, largely due to inadequate decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , WeiLi Zhang , Wenxuan Zhang , Yu Guo , Fei Wang

Recent advances in full-head reconstruction have been obtained by optimizing a neural field through differentiable surface or volume rendering to represent a single scene. While these techniques achieve an unprecedented accuracy, they take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Antonio Canela , Pol Caselles , Ibrar Malik , Eduard Ramon , Jaime García , Jordi Sánchez-Riera , Gil Triginer , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

We introduce FlexAvatar, a method for creating high-quality and complete 3D head avatars from a single image. A core challenge lies in the limited availability of multi-view data and the tendency of monocular training to yield incomplete 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

We present a novel pipeline for learning high-quality triangular human avatars from multi-view videos. Recent methods for avatar learning are typically based on neural radiance fields (NeRF), which is not compatible with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yushuo Chen , Zerong Zheng , Zhe Li , Chao Xu , Yebin Liu

We present a method that reconstructs and animates a 3D head avatar from a single-view portrait image. Existing methods either involve time-consuming optimization for a specific person with multiple images, or they struggle to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xueting Li , Shalini De Mello , Sifei Liu , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal , Jan Kautz

Building photorealistic, animatable full-body digital humans remains a longstanding challenge in computer graphics and vision. Recent advances in animatable avatar modeling have largely progressed along two directions: improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann

3D head avatars built with neural implicit volumetric representations have achieved unprecedented levels of photorealism. However, the computational cost of these methods remains a significant barrier to their widespread adoption,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Ziqian Bai , Feitong Tan , Sean Fanello , Rohit Pandey , Mingsong Dou , Shichen Liu , Ping Tan , Yinda Zhang

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Building 3D animatable head avatars from a single image is an important yet challenging problem. Existing methods generally collapse under large camera pose variations, compromising the realism of 3D avatars. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuling Zhao , Dan Xu

Neural implicit fields are powerful for representing 3D scenes and generating high-quality novel views, but it remains challenging to use such implicit representations for creating a 3D human avatar with a specific identity and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ruixiang Jiang , Can Wang , Jingbo Zhang , Menglei Chai , Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi