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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

Referenced-based scene stylization that edits the appearance based on a content-aligned reference image is an emerging research area. Starting with a pretrained neural radiance field (NeRF), existing methods typically learn a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yiqun Mei , Jiacong Xu , Vishal M. Patel

Implicit neural representation methods have shown impressive advancements in learning 3D scenes from unstructured in-the-wild photo collections but are still limited by the large computational cost of volumetric rendering. More recently, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hiba Dahmani , Moussab Bennehar , Nathan Piasco , Luis Roldao , Dzmitry Tsishkou

Constructing vivid 3D head avatars for given subjects and realizing a series of animations on them is valuable yet challenging. This paper presents GaussianHead, which models the actional human head with anisotropic 3D Gaussians. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jie Wang , Jiu-Cheng Xie , Xianyan Li , Feng Xu , Chi-Man Pun , Hao Gao

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Recent works on audio-driven talking head synthesis using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results. However, due to inadequate pose and expression control caused by NeRF implicit representation, these methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Hongyun Yu , Zhan Qu , Qihang Yu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhonghua Jiang , Zhiwen Chen , Shengyu Zhang , Jimin Xu , Fei Wu , Chengfei Lv , Gang Yu

The introduction of 3D Gaussian blendshapes has enabled the real-time reconstruction of animatable head avatars from monocular video. Toonify, a StyleGAN-based method, has become widely used for facial image stylization. To extend Toonify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Rui-Yang Ju , Sheng-Yen Huang , Yi-Ping Hung

Novel view synthesis has advanced significantly with the development of neural radiance fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS). However, achieving high quality without compromising real-time rendering remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhongpai Gao , Benjamin Planche , Meng Zheng , Anwesa Choudhuri , Terrence Chen , Ziyan Wu

Following the advent of NeRFs, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has paved the way to real-time neural rendering overcoming the computational burden of volumetric methods. Following the pioneering work of 3D-GS, several methods have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evangelos Ververas , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jifei Song , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We propose GaussianTalker, a novel framework for real-time generation of pose-controllable talking heads. It leverages the fast rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) while addressing the challenges of directly controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Yeobin Hong , Jaehoon Ko , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

Novel view synthesis with neural models has advanced rapidly in recent years, yet adapting these models to scene changes remains an open problem. Existing methods are either labor-intensive, requiring extensive model retraining, or fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Lin Zeng , Boming Zhao , Jiarui Hu , Xujie Shen , Ziqiang Dang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

The field of novel view synthesis from images has seen rapid advancements with the introduction of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and more recently with 3D Gaussian Splatting. Gaussian Splatting became widely adopted due to its efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ruihong Yin , Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

While the field of 3D scene reconstruction is dominated by NeRFs due to their photorealistic quality, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged, offering similar quality with real-time rendering speeds. However, both methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jonas Kulhanek , Songyou Peng , Zuzana Kukelova , Marc Pollefeys , Torsten Sattler

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

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…

Text-driven 3D scene editing has attracted considerable interest due to its convenience and user-friendliness. However, methods that rely on implicit 3D representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), while effective in rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Pengcheng Xue , Yan Tian , Qiutao Song , Ziyi Wang , Linyang He , Weiping Ding , Mahmoud Hassaballah , Karen Egiazarian , Wei-Fa Yang , Leszek Rutkowski

Radiance fields have demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing lifelike 3D talking heads. However, due to the difficulty in fitting steep appearance changes, the prevailing paradigm that presents facial motions by directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiahe Li , Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Bai , Jin Zheng , Xin Ning , Jun Zhou , Lin Gu

3D neural style transfer has gained significant attention for its potential to provide user-friendly stylization with spatial consistency. However, existing 3D style transfer methods often fall short in terms of inference efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wanlin Liang , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Feng Xiao , Wenxiong Kang

The field of 3D reconstruction from images has rapidly evolved in the past few years, first with the introduction of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and more recently with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). The latter provides a significant edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Avinash Paliwal , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Dmytro Kotovenko , Rakesh Ranjan , Vikas Chandra , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Audio-driven talking head generation is crucial for applications in virtual reality, digital avatars, and film production. While NeRF-based methods enable high-fidelity reconstruction, they suffer from low rendering efficiency and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng