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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

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Advances in 3D-aware generative models have pushed the boundary of image synthesis with explicit camera control. To achieve high-resolution image synthesis, several attempts have been made to design efficient generators, such as hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Mallikarjun B R , Xingang Pan , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Portrait editing is a popular subject in photo manipulation. The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) advances the generating of realistic faces and allows more face editing. In this paper, we argue about three issues in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Hao Yang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Lu Yuan

Text-guided 3D face synthesis has achieved remarkable results by leveraging text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. However, most existing works focus solely on the direct generation, ignoring the editing, restricting them from synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yunjie Wu , Yapeng Meng , Zhipeng Hu , Lincheng Li , Haoqian Wu , Kun Zhou , Weiwei Xu , Xin Yu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tengfei Wang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Jingjing Shen , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Qifeng Chen , Baining Guo

We propose a novel neural rendering pipeline, Hybrid Volumetric-Textural Rendering (HVTR), which synthesizes virtual human avatars from arbitrary poses efficiently and at high quality. First, we learn to encode articulated human motions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Tao Hu , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , He Zhang , Yebin Liu , Matthias Zwicker

We introduce PortraitGen, a powerful portrait video editing method that achieves consistent and expressive stylization with multimodal prompts. Traditional portrait video editing methods often struggle with 3D and temporal consistency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xuan Gao , Haiyao Xiao , Chenglai Zhong , Shimin Hu , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

We present a technique to synthesize and analyze volume-rendered images using generative models. We use the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework to compute a model from a large collection of volume renderings, conditioned on (1)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Matthew Berger , Jixian Li , Joshua A. Levine

3D-consistent image generation from a single 2D semantic label is an important and challenging research topic in computer graphics and computer vision. Although some related works have made great progress in this field, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bo Li , Yi-ke Li , Zhi-fen He , Bin Liu , Yun-Kun Lai

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

Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Facial expression transfer and reenactment has been an important research problem given its applications in face editing, image manipulation, and fabricated videos generation. We present a novel method for image-based facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Chao Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

We present FaceLift, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable high-quality 360-degree 3D head reconstruction from a single image. Our pipeline first employs a multi-view latent diffusion model to generate consistent side and back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Weijie Lyu , Yi Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

We introduce a highly robust GAN-based framework for digitizing a normalized 3D avatar of a person from a single unconstrained photo. While the input image can be of a smiling person or taken in extreme lighting conditions, our method can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Huiwen Luo , Koki Nagano , Han-Wei Kung , Mclean Goldwhite , Qingguo Xu , Zejian Wang , Lingyu Wei , Liwen Hu , Hao Li

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid representation and end-to-end trainable network architecture to model fully editable and customizable neural avatars. At the core of our work lies a representation that combines the modeling power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Hsuan-I Ho , Lixin Xue , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Existing single-image 3D human avatar methods primarily rely on rigid joint transformations, limiting their ability to model realistic cloth dynamics. We present DynaAvatar, a zero-shot framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joohyun Kwon , Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon