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Creating high-quality 3D avatars using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) from a monocular video benefits virtual reality and telecommunication applications. However, existing automatic methods exhibit artifacts under novel poses due to limited…

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Personalized 3D avatar editing holds significant promise due to its user-friendliness and availability to applications such as AR/VR and virtual try-ons. Previous studies have explored the feasibility of 3D editing, but often struggle to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hanxi Liu , Yifang Men , Zhouhui Lian

Nuanced expressiveness, particularly through fine-grained hand and facial expressions, is pivotal for enhancing the realism and vitality of digital human representations. In this work, we focus on investigating the expressiveness of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hezhen Hu , Zhiwen Fan , Tianhao Wu , Yihan Xi , Seoyoung Lee , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang

Creating high-fidelity and editable head avatars is a pivotal challenge in computer vision and graphics, boosting many AR/VR applications. While recent advancements have achieved photorealistic renderings and plausible animation, head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Heyi Sun , Cong Wang , Tian-Xing Xu , Jingwei Huang , Di Kang , Chunchao Guo , Song-Hai Zhang

Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tobias Kirschstein , Javier Romero , Artem Sevastopolsky , Matthias Nießner , Shunsuke Saito

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled photorealistic and real-time rendering of 3D head avatars. Existing 3DGS-based avatars typically rely on tens of thousands of 3D Gaussian points (Gaussians), with the number of Gaussians fixed after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Peizhi Yan , Rabab Ward , Qiang Tang , Shan Du

We introduce ELITE, an Efficient Gaussian head avatar synthesis from a monocular video via Learned Initialization and TEst-time generative adaptation. Prior works rely either on a 3D data prior or a 2D generative prior to compensate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Kim Youwang , Lee Hyoseok , Subin Park , Gerard Pons-Moll , Tae-Hyun Oh

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

In recent times, the generation of 3D assets from text prompts has shown impressive results. Both 2D and 3D diffusion models can help generate decent 3D objects based on prompts. 3D diffusion models have good 3D consistency, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Junjie Wang , Guanjun Wu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Qi Tian , Xinggang Wang

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Steiner , Zhang Chen , Alexander Richard , Vasu Agrawal , Markus Steinberger , Michael Zollhöfer

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

In this work, we introduce Monocular and Generalizable Gaussian Talking Head Animation (MGGTalk), which requires monocular datasets and generalizes to unseen identities without personalized re-training. Compared with previous 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Shengjie Gong , Haojie Li , Jiapeng Tang , Dongming Hu , Shuangping Huang , Hao Chen , Tianshui Chen , Zhuoman Liu

With the rising interest from the community in digital avatars coupled with the importance of expressions and gestures in communication, modeling natural avatar behavior remains an important challenge across many industries such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Kefan Chen , Sergiu Oprea , Justin Theiss , Sreyas Mohan , Srinath Sridhar , Aayush Prakash

We present Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars (D3GA), a multi-layered 3D controllable model for human bodies that utilizes 3D Gaussian primitives embedded into tetrahedral cages. The advantage of using cages compared to commonly employed linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Wojciech Zielonka , Timur Bagautdinov , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Justus Thies , Javier Romero

Audio-driven talking head generation is a core component of digital avatars, and 3D Gaussian Splatting has shown strong performance in real-time rendering of high-fidelity talking heads. However, achieving precise control over fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shaoyang Xie , Xiaofeng Cong , Baosheng Yu , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Yuan Yan Tang , James Tin-Yau Kwok

We present LAM, an innovative Large Avatar Model for animatable Gaussian head reconstruction from a single image. Unlike previous methods that require extensive training on captured video sequences or rely on auxiliary neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yisheng He , Xiaodong Gu , Xiaodan Ye , Chao Xu , Zhengyi Zhao , Yuan Dong , Weihao Yuan , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo

Recent advances in diffusion models have made significant progress in digital human generation. However, most existing models still struggle to maintain 3D consistency, temporal coherence, and motion accuracy. A key reason for these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xuan Gao , Jingtao Zhou , Dongyu Liu , Yuqi Zhou , Juyong Zhang

We present, GauHuman, a 3D human model with Gaussian Splatting for both fast training (1 ~ 2 minutes) and real-time rendering (up to 189 FPS), compared with existing NeRF-based implicit representation modelling frameworks demanding hours of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Shoukang Hu , Ziwei Liu

We present a feed-forward framework for Gaussian full-head synthesis from a single unposed image. Unlike previous work that relies on time-consuming GAN inversion and test-time optimization, our framework can reconstruct the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Peng Li , Yisheng He , Yingdong Hu , Yuan Dong , Weihao Yuan , Yuan Liu , Siyu Zhu , Gang Cheng , Zilong Dong , Yike Guo