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In this paper, we investigate an open research task of generating 3D cartoon face shapes from single 2D GAN generated human faces and without 3D supervision, where we can also manipulate the facial expressions of the 3D shapes. To this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Hao Wang , Wenhao Shen , Guosheng Lin , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chunyan Miao

While substantial progresses have been made in automated 2D portrait stylization, admirable 3D portrait stylization from a single user photo remains to be an unresolved challenge. One primary obstacle here is the lack of high quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Guoxian Song , Hongyi Xu , Jing Liu , Tiancheng Zhi , Yichun Shi , Jianfeng Zhang , Zihang Jiang , Jiashi Feng , Shen Sang , Linjie Luo

The recent advancements in image-text diffusion models have stimulated research interest in large-scale 3D generative models. Nevertheless, the limited availability of diverse 3D resources presents significant challenges to learning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chi Zhang , Yiwen Chen , Yijun Fu , Zhenglin Zhou , Gang YU , Billzb Wang , Bin Fu , Tao Chen , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

To improve the experiences of face-to-face conversation with avatar, this paper presents a novel conversation system. It is composed of two sequence-to-sequence models respectively for listening and speaking and a Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Zezhou Chen , Zhaoxiang Liu , Huan Hu , Jinqiang Bai , Shiguo Lian , Fuyuan Shi , Kai Wang

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

We propose 360{\deg} Volumetric Portrait (3VP) Avatar, a novel method for reconstructing 360{\deg} photo-realistic portrait avatars of human subjects solely based on monocular video inputs. State-of-the-art monocular avatar reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jalees Nehvi , Berna Kabadayi , Julien Valentin , Justus Thies

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

Over the years, 2D GANs have achieved great successes in photorealistic portrait generation. However, they lack 3D understanding in the generation process, thus they suffer from multi-view inconsistency problem. To alleviate the issue, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jeong-gi Kwak , Yuanming Li , Dongsik Yoon , Donghyeon Kim , David Han , Hanseok Ko

Recently, we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However, due to the diversity of frameworks, there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Bao , Yinda Zhang , Yuan Li , Xiyu Zhang , Bangbang Yang , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting have significantly boosted the reconstruction of head avatars, enabling high-quality facial modeling by representing an 3D avatar as a collection of 3D Gaussians. However, existing methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Shiqi Xin , Xiaolin Zhang , Yanbin Liu , Peng Zhang , Caifeng Shan

While progress in 2D generative models of human appearance has been rapid, many applications require 3D avatars that can be animated and rendered. Unfortunately, most existing methods for learning generative models of 3D humans with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zijian Dong , Xu Chen , Jinlong Yang , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges , Andreas Geiger

We present a novel approach for generating animatable 3D-aware art avatars from a single image, with controllable facial expressions, head poses, and shoulder movements. Unlike previous reenactment methods, our approach utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shaoxu Li

Facial expression editing methods can be mainly categorized into two types based on their architectures: 2D-based and 3D-based methods. The former lacks 3D face modeling capabilities, making it difficult to edit 3D factors effectively. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yikang He , Jichao Zhang , Wei Wang , Nicu Sebe , Yao Zhao

We propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Steiner , Zhang Chen , Alexander Richard , Vasu Agrawal , Markus Steinberger , Michael Zollhöfer

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang