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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…

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We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

Multi-view volumetric rendering techniques have recently shown great potential in modeling and synthesizing high-quality head avatars. A common approach to capture full head dynamic performances is to track the underlying geometry using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kartik Teotia , Mallikarjun B R , Xingang Pan , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Avatar reconstruction has traditionally relied on per-subject optimization that requires hours of computation or on expensive preprocessing that limits scalability. We introduce FFAvatar, a generalizable feed-forward framework that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Thuan Hoang Nguyen , Jiahao Luo , Yinyu Nie , Hao Li , Gordon Guocheng Qian , Jian Wang

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

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

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

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda 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

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Kangjie Chen , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot, but it remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper, we propose HHAvatar represented by controllable 3D Gaussians for high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhanfeng Liao , Yuelang Xu , Zhe Li , Qijing Li , Boyao Zhou , Ruifeng Bai , Di Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Amit Raj , Michael Zollhoefer , Tomas Simon , Jason Saragih , Shunsuke Saito , James Hays , Stephen Lombardi

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

We propose GGAvatar, a novel 3D avatar representation designed to robustly model dynamic head avatars with complex identities and deformations. GGAvatar employs a coarse-to-fine structure, featuring two core modules: Neutral Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xinyang Li , Jiaxin Wang , Yixin Xuan , Gongxin Yao , Yu Pan

Creating high-fidelity 3D human head avatars is crucial for applications in VR/AR, digital human, and film production. Recent advances have leveraged morphable face models to generate animated head avatars from easily accessible data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yuelang Xu , Zhaoqi Su , Qingyao Wu , Yebin Liu

Reconstructing photorealistic and dynamic portrait avatars from images is essential to many applications including advertising, visual effects, and virtual reality. Depending on the application, avatar reconstruction involves different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , David B. Lindell

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

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Reconstructing a complete 3D head from a single portrait remains challenging because existing methods still face a sharp quality-speed trade-off: high-fidelity pipelines often rely on multi-stage processing and per-subject optimization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yujie Gao , Yao Xiao , Xiangnan Zhu , Ya Li , Yiyi Zhang , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu 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