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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…

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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

We propose FlashAvatar, a novel and lightweight 3D animatable avatar representation that could reconstruct a digital avatar from a short monocular video sequence in minutes and render high-fidelity photo-realistic images at 300FPS on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jun Xiang , Xuan Gao , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

We present Reduced Gaussian Blendshapes Avatar (RGBAvatar), a method for reconstructing photorealistic, animatable head avatars at speeds sufficient for on-the-fly reconstruction. Unlike prior approaches that utilize linear bases from 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Linzhou Li , Yumeng Li , Yanlin Weng , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

To address the ill-posed problem caused by partial observations in monocular human volumetric capture, we present AvatarCap, a novel framework that introduces animatable avatars into the capture pipeline for high-fidelity reconstruction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zhe Li , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Chaonan Ji , Yebin Liu

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

Reconstructing photo-realistic drivable human avatars from multi-view image sequences has been a popular and challenging topic in the field of computer vision and graphics. While existing NeRF-based methods can achieve high-quality novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Xiaoyu Li , Li Ma , Qi Zhang , Chaopeng Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Ying Shan

Photorealistic avatars have become essential for immersive applications in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), enabling lifelike interactions in areas such as training simulations, telemedicine, and virtual collaboration. These…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Rendong Zhang , Alexandra Watkins , Nilanjan Sarkar

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

Neural radiance fields are capable of reconstructing high-quality drivable human avatars but are expensive to train and render and not suitable for multi-human scenes with complex shadows. To reduce consumption, we propose Animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yang Liu , Xiang Huang , Minghan Qin , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

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

Reconstructing high-fidelity and animatable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging yet essential task. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting typically bind Gaussians to mesh triangles and model deformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jiankuo Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Zidu Wang , Zhen Lei

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

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

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

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

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

We present a novel framework for animating humans in 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a neural scene representation that has recently achieved state-of-the-art photorealistic results for novel-view synthesis but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Aymen Mir , Jian Wang , Riza Alp Guler , Chuan Guo , Gerard Pons-Moll , Bing Zhou

Many works have succeeded in reconstructing Gaussian human avatars from multi-view videos. However, they either struggle to capture pose-dependent appearance details with a single MLP, or rely on a computationally intensive neural network…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou