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High-fidelity head avatar reconstruction plays a crucial role in AR/VR, gaming, and multimedia content creation. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated effectiveness in modeling complex geometry with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shikun Zhang , Cunjian Chen , Yiqun Wang , Qiuhong Ke , Yong Li

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

Unsupervised generation of clothed virtual humans with various appearance and animatable poses is important for creating 3D human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object modeling, or not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Recent advances in neural radiance fields enable novel view synthesis of photo-realistic images in dynamic settings, which can be applied to scenarios with human animation. Commonly used implicit backbones to establish accurate models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero , Yiren Zhou , Zhihao Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Despite recent progress in developing animatable full-body avatars, realistic modeling of clothing - one of the core aspects of human self-expression - remains an open challenge. State-of-the-art physical simulation methods can generate…

We present a CloseUpAvatar - a novel approach for articulated human avatar representation dealing with more general camera motions, while preserving rendering quality for close-up views. CloseUpAvatar represents an avatar as a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

We introduce SimAvatar, a framework designed to generate simulation-ready clothed 3D human avatars from a text prompt. Current text-driven human avatar generation methods either model hair, clothing, and the human body using a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xueting Li , Ye Yuan , Shalini De Mello , Gilles Daviet , Jonathan Leaf , Miles Macklin , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct clothed humans. We introduce PhysAvatar, a novel…

We propose a new type of full-body human avatars, which combines parametric mesh-based body model with a neural texture. We show that with the help of neural textures, such avatars can successfully model clothing and hair, which usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Artur Grigorev , Karim Iskakov , Anastasia Ianina , Renat Bashirov , Ilya Zakharkin , Alexander Vakhitov , Victor Lempitsky

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

Unsupervised generation of 3D-aware clothed humans with various appearances and controllable geometries is important for creating virtual human avatars and other AR/VR applications. Existing methods are either limited to rigid object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Dingdong Yang , Hongyi Xu , Yichun Shi , Guoxian Song , Zhongcong Xu , Xinchao Wang , Jiashi Feng

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

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Rendering photorealistic and dynamically moving human heads is crucial for ensuring a pleasant and immersive experience in AR/VR and video conferencing applications. However, existing methods often struggle to model challenging facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Cong Wang , Di Kang , Yan-Pei Cao , Linchao Bao , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Creating human avatars is a highly desirable yet challenging task. Recent advancements in radiance field rendering have achieved unprecedented photorealism and real-time performance for personalized dynamic human avatars. However, these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dongliang Cao , Guoxing Sun , Marc Habermann , Florian Bernard

We present Neural Head Avatars, a novel neural representation that explicitly models the surface geometry and appearance of an animatable human avatar that can be used for teleconferencing in AR/VR or other applications in the movie or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Philip-William Grassal , Malte Prinzler , Titus Leistner , Carsten Rother , Matthias Nießner , Justus Thies

The human face is central to communication. For immersive applications, the digital presence of a person should mirror the physical reality, capturing the users idiosyncrasies and detailed facial expressions. However, current 3D head avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jalees Nehvi , Timo Bolkart , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies

Existing approaches to animatable NeRF-based head avatars are either built upon face templates or use the expression coefficients of templates as the driving signal. Despite the promising progress, their performances are heavily bound by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yuelang Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Lizhen Wang , Xiaochen Zhao , Han Huang , Guojun Qi , Yebin Liu