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Creating high-fidelity and editable head avatars is a pivotal challenge in computer vision and graphics, boosting many AR/VR applications. While recent advancements have achieved photorealistic renderings and plausible animation, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Heyi Sun , Cong Wang , Tian-Xing Xu , Jingwei Huang , Di Kang , Chunchao Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

We introduce a novel approach to creating ultra-realistic head avatars and rendering them in real-time (>30fps at $2048 \times 1334$ resolution). First, we propose a hybrid explicit representation that combines the advantages of two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongrui Cai , Yuting Xiao , Xuan Wang , Jiafei Li , Yudong Guo , Yanbo Fan , Shenghua Gao , Juyong Zhang

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

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev

We present a novel animatable 3D Gaussian model for rendering high-fidelity free-view human motions in real time. Compared to existing NeRF-based methods, the model owns better capability in synthesizing high-frequency details without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Keyang Ye , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

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

3D head animation has seen major quality and runtime improvements over the last few years, particularly empowered by the advances in differentiable rendering and neural radiance fields. Real-time rendering is a highly desirable goal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Helisa Dhamo , Yinyu Nie , Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown impressive results for the novel view synthesis task, where lighting is assumed to be fixed. However, creating relightable 3D assets, especially for objects with ill-defined shapes (fur, fabric, etc.),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiahui Fan , Fujun Luan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Gent Serifi , Marcel C. Buehler

Faithful real-time facial animation is essential for avatar-mediated telepresence in Virtual Reality (VR). To emulate authentic communication, avatar animation needs to be efficient and accurate: able to capture both extreme and subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shaojie Bai , Te-Li Wang , Chenghui Li , Akshay Venkatesh , Tomas Simon , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Ryan Wrench , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh , Shih-En Wei

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled photorealistic and real-time rendering of 3D head avatars. Existing 3DGS-based avatars typically rely on tens of thousands of 3D Gaussian points (Gaussians), with the number of Gaussians fixed after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Peizhi Yan , Rabab Ward , Qiang Tang , Shan Du

In this paper, we present a novel method that facilitates the creation of vivid 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular video inputs (GVA). Our innovation lies in addressing the intricate challenges of delivering high-fidelity human body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xinqi Liu , Chenming Wu , Jialun Liu , Xing Liu , Jinbo Wu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

We propose a novel framework for decomposing arbitrarily posed humans into animatable multi-layered 3D human avatars, separating the body and garments. Conventional single-layer reconstruction methods lock clothing to one identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana

Existing Gaussian avatar methods typically parameterize geometry on a body-template surface, which entangles the avatar's representation space with the template's deformation space and limits the capture of layered, off-body, and non-rigid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julian Kaltheuner , Jan Spindler , Sina Kitz , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

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

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

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled fast, photorealistic rendering of dynamic 3D scenes, showing strong potential in immersive communication. However, in digital human encoding and transmission, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haocheng Tang , Ruoke Yan , Xinhui Yin , Qi Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao , Chuanmin Jia