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Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

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Recent GAN-based (Generative adversarial networks) inpainting methods show remarkable improvements and generate plausible images using multi-stage networks or Contextual Attention Modules (CAM). However, these techniques increase the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Yakup Genc

GAN inversion aims to invert a given image back into the latent space of a pretrained GAN model, for the image to be faithfully reconstructed from the inverted code by the generator. As an emerging technique to bridge the real and fake…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Weihao Xia , Yulun Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Jing-Hao Xue , Bolei Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-quality (HQ) images, and GAN inversion is a technique that discovers how to invert given images back to latent space. While existing methods perform on StyleGAN inversion, they have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Cheng Yu , Wenmin Wang , Roberto Bugiolacchi

Despite recent progress in 3D Gaussian-based head avatar modeling, efficiently generating high fidelity avatars remains a challenge. Current methods typically rely on extensive multi-view capture setups or monocular videos with per-identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinya Ji , Sebastian Weiss , Manuel Kansy , Jacek Naruniec , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

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 present AvatarTex, a high-fidelity facial texture reconstruction framework capable of generating both stylized and photorealistic textures from a single image. Existing methods struggle with stylized avatars due to the lack of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yuda Qiu , Zitong Xiao , Yiwei Zuo , Zisheng Ye , Weikai Chen , Xiaoguang Han

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) inversion have demonstrated excellent performance in image inpainting that aims to restore lost or damaged image texture using its unmasked content. Previous GAN inversion-based methods usually utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Libo Zhang , Yongsheng Yu , Jiali Yao , Heng Fan

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 progress in NeRF-based GANs has introduced a number of approaches for high-resolution and high-fidelity generative modeling of human heads with a possibility for novel view rendering. At the same time, one must solve an inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ananta R. Bhattarai , Matthias Nießner , Artem Sevastopolsky

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides an efficient method for high-quality scene reconstruction using anisotropic Gaussians. Recently, 3DGS-based methods have significantly improved the rendering quality of human avatars while enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hongzhe Liao , Chuhua Xian , Hongmin Cai , Haiyang Liu , Fa-Ting Hong

A lot of work has been done towards reconstructing the 3D facial structure from single images by capitalizing on the power of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). In the recent works, the texture features either correspond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Baris Gecer , Stylianos Ploumpis , Irene Kotsia , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

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

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

In the past few years, a lot of work has been done towards reconstructing the 3D facial structure from single images by capitalizing on the power of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). In the most recent works, differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Baris Gecer , Stylianos Ploumpis , Irene Kotsia , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Image inversion is a fundamental task in generative models, aiming to map images back to their latent representations to enable downstream applications such as editing, restoration, and style transfer. This paper provides a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yinan Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Yali Bi , Xiaobin Hu , Teng Hu , Zhucun Xue , Ran Yi , Yong Liu , Ying Tai

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

In this paper, we present our framework for neural face/head reenactment whose goal is to transfer the 3D head orientation and expression of a target face to a source face. Previous methods focus on learning embedding networks for identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Stella Bounareli , Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Argyriou , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos