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Diffusion models have shown impressive potential on talking head generation. While plausible appearance and talking effect are achieved, these methods still suffer from temporal, 3D or expression inconsistency due to the error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

There is a growing demand for the accessible creation of high-quality 3D avatars that are animatable and customizable. Although 3D morphable models provide intuitive control for editing and animation, and robustness for single-view face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Connor Z. Lin , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Eric R. Chan , Umar Iqbal , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sameh Khamis

We present InstantGeoAvatar, a method for efficient and effective learning from monocular video of detailed 3D geometry and appearance of animatable implicit human avatars. Our key observation is that the optimization of a hash grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alvaro Budria , Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Oscar Lorente , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Capitalizing on the recent advances in image generation models, existing controllable face image synthesis methods are able to generate high-fidelity images with some levels of controllability, e.g., controlling the shapes, expressions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Keqiang Sun , Shangzhe Wu , Ning Zhang , Zhaoyang Huang , Quan Wang , Hongsheng Li

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) GANs for human heads synthesize and render photorealistic 3D models in real-time and offer a vast variety in identity and appearance. However, controlling specific semantic attributes such as hair color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Florian Barthel , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Wieland Morgenstern , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Recent work on 3D-aware image synthesis has achieved compelling results using advances in neural rendering. However, 3D-aware synthesis of face dynamics hasn't received much attention. Here, we study how to explicitly control generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Peiye Zhuang , Liqian Ma , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Alexander G. Schwing

Generating animatable and editable 3D head avatars is essential for various applications in computer vision and graphics. Traditional 3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs), often using implicit fields like Neural Radiance Fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Guohao Li , Hongyu Yang , Yifang Men , Di Huang , Weixin Li , Ruijie Yang , Yunhong Wang

Facial expression and hand motions are necessary to express our emotions and interact with the world. Nevertheless, most of the 3D human avatars modeled from a casually captured video only support body motions without facial expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Gyeongsik Moon , Takaaki Shiratori , Shunsuke Saito

We present a novel framework for generating photorealistic 3D human head and subsequently manipulating and reposing them with remarkable flexibility. The proposed approach leverages an implicit function representation of 3D human heads,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yushi Lan , Feitong Tan , Di Qiu , Qiangeng Xu , Kyle Genova , Zeng Huang , Sean Fanello , Rohit Pandey , Thomas Funkhouser , Chen Change Loy , Yinda Zhang

High-quality, real-time talking head synthesis remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing reconstruction- and rendering-based methods typically rely on identity-specific models, limiting cross-identity generalization. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peng Jia , Zhen Xiao , Jia Li , Xueliang Liu , Zhenzhen Hu , Lingyun Yu

We propose a novel 3D deepfake generation framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that enables realistic, identity-preserving face swapping and reenactment in a fully controllable 3D space. Compared to conventional 2D deepfake approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wending Liu , Siyun Liang , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen

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

As virtual reality gains popularity, the demand for controllable creation of immersive and dynamic omnidirectional videos (ODVs) is increasing. While previous text-to-ODV generation methods achieve impressive results, they struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Weiqi Li , Shijie Zhao , Chong Mou , Xuhan Sheng , Zhenyu Zhang , Qian Wang , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Jian Zhang

Text-to-Avatar generation has recently made significant strides due to advancements in diffusion models. However, most existing work remains constrained by limited diversity, producing avatars with subtle differences in appearance for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Weijing Tao , Biwen Lei , Kunhao Liu , Shijian Lu , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Chunyan Miao

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

Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot, but it remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper, we propose HHAvatar represented by controllable 3D Gaussians for high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhanfeng Liao , Yuelang Xu , Zhe Li , Qijing Li , Boyao Zhou , Ruifeng Bai , Di Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

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

In this paper, we aim to create generalizable and controllable neural signed distance fields (SDFs) that represent clothed humans from monocular depth observations. Recent advances in deep learning, especially neural implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Qianli Ma , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We present FastAvatar, a fast and robust algorithm for single-image 3D face reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Given a single input image from an arbitrary pose, FastAvatar recovers a high-quality, full-head 3DGS avatar in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hao Liang , Zhixuan Ge , Soumendu Majee , Ashish Tiwari , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan