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Sparse volumetric reconstruction and rendering via 3D Gaussian splatting have recently enabled animatable 3D head avatars that are rendered under arbitrary viewpoints with impressive photorealism. Today, such photoreal avatars are seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Gengyan Li , Paulo Gotardo , Timo Bolkart , Stephan Garbin , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Abhimitra Meka , Alexandros Lattas , Thabo Beeler

We present GASPACHO, a method for generating photorealistic, controllable renderings of human-object interactions from multi-view RGB video. Unlike prior work that reconstructs only the human and treats objects as background, GASPACHO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Aymen Mir , Arthur Moreau , Helisa Dhamo , Zhensong Zhang , Gerard Pons-Moll , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

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

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its capability to generate high-fidelity rendering results. At the same time, most applications such as games, animation, and AR/VR use mesh-based representations to represent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Dinesh Manocha

By equipping the most recent 3D Gaussian Splatting representation with head 3D morphable models (3DMM), existing methods manage to create head avatars with high fidelity. However, most existing methods only reconstruct a head without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Tianhao Wu , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Jingyi Wan , Fangcheng Zhong , Cengiz Oztireli

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

Recently, generalizable human Gaussian splatting from sparse-view inputs has been actively studied for the photorealistic human rendering. Most existing methods rely on explicit geometric constraints or predefined structural representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jingi Kim , Wonjun Kim

Modeling animatable human avatars from monocular or multi-view videos has been widely studied, with recent approaches leveraging neural radiance fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieving impressive results in novel-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yahui Li , Zhi Zeng , Liming Pang , Guixuan Zhang , Shuwu Zhang

Differentiable rendering techniques have recently shown promising results for free-viewpoint video synthesis of characters. However, such methods, either Gaussian Splatting or neural implicit rendering, typically necessitate per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Boyao Zhou , Shunyuan Zheng , Hanzhang Tu , Ruizhi Shao , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie , Yebin Liu

Photorealistic and animatable human avatars are a key enabler for virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Cheng Peng , Jingxiang Sun , Yushuo Chen , Zhaoqi Su , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

A photorealistic and controllable 3D caricaturization framework for faces is introduced. We start with an intrinsic Gaussian curvature-based surface exaggeration technique, which, when coupled with texture, tends to produce over-smoothed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eldad Matmon , Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , Ron Kimmel

Recent progress in neural rendering has brought forth pioneering methods, such as NeRF and Gaussian Splatting, which revolutionize view rendering across various domains like AR/VR, gaming, and content creation. While these methods excel at…

In this paper, we propose to create animatable avatars for interacting hands with 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and single-image inputs. Existing GS-based methods designed for single subjects often yield unsatisfactory results due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuan Huang , Hanhui Li , Wanquan Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yiqiang Yan , Yuhao Cheng , Chengqiang Gao

Recent advancements in Gaussian Splatting have enabled increasingly accurate reconstruction of photorealistic head avatars, opening the door to numerous applications in visual effects, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. This, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kelian Baert , Mae Younes , Francois Bourel , Marc Christie , Adnane Boukhayma

High-quality, animatable 3D human avatar reconstruction from monocular videos offers significant potential for reducing reliance on complex hardware, making it highly practical for applications in game development, augmented reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xia Yuan , Hai Yuan , Wenyi Ge , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Guanyu Xing

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

In this work, we propose a novel clothed human reconstruction method called GaussianBody, based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. Compared with the costly neural radiance based models, 3D Gaussian Splatting has recently demonstrated great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Recent advancements in radiance field rendering show promising results in 3D scene representation, where Gaussian splatting-based techniques emerge as state-of-the-art due to their quality and efficiency. Gaussian splatting is widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Arnab Dey , Cheng-You Lu , Andrew I. Comport , Srinath Sridhar , Chin-Teng Lin , Jean Martinet

Radiance field-based methods have recently been used to reconstruct human avatars, showing that we can significantly downscale the systems needed for creating animated human avatars. Although this progress has been initiated by neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nikolaos Zioulis , Nikolaos Kotarelas , Georgios Albanis , Spyridon Thermos , Anargyros Chatzitofis