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4D generation has made remarkable progress in synthesizing dynamic 3D objects from input text, images, or videos. However, existing methods often represent motion as an implicit deformation field, which limits direct control and…

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We introduce GaussianSpeech, a novel approach that synthesizes high-fidelity animation sequences of photo-realistic, personalized 3D human head avatars from spoken audio. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shivangi Aneja , Artem Sevastopolsky , Tobias Kirschstein , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

We present Instant Skinned Gaussian Avatars, a real-time and cross-platform 3D avatar system. Many approaches have been proposed to animate Gaussian Splatting, but they often require camera arrays, long preprocessing times, or high-end…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Naruya Kondo , Yuto Asano , Yoichi Ochiai

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D head avatars is crucial in various applications such as virtual reality. The pioneering methods reconstruct realistic head avatars with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which have been limited by training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Qingpo Wuwu , Xinyi Wang , Xingyu Xiao , Ming Lu

Recent progress in NeRF-based GANs has introduced a number of approaches for high-resolution and high-fidelity generative modeling of human heads with a possibility for novel view rendering. At the same time, one must solve an inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ananta R. Bhattarai , Matthias Nießner , Artem Sevastopolsky

In the field of digital content creation, generating high-quality 3D characters from single images is challenging, especially given the complexities of various body poses and the issues of self-occlusion and pose ambiguity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Hao-Yang Peng , Jia-Peng Zhang , Meng-Hao Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Min Hu

We introduce VIVE3D, a novel approach that extends the capabilities of image-based 3D GANs to video editing and is able to represent the input video in an identity-preserving and temporally consistent way. We propose two new building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Anna Frühstück , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Yuanlu Xu , Peter Wonka , Tony Tung

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

Given the growing need for automatic 3D content creation pipelines, various 3D representations have been studied to generate 3D objects from a single image. Due to its superior rendering efficiency, 3D Gaussian splatting-based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Dejia Xu , Ye Yuan , Morteza Mardani , Sifei Liu , Jiaming Song , Zhangyang Wang , Arash Vahdat

Simulation is essential for autonomous driving, yet current frameworks often model vehicles as rigid assets and fail to capture part-level articulation. With perception algorithms increasingly leveraging dynamics such as wheel steering or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shiyao Qian , Yuan Ren , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu

3D shape generation aims to produce innovative 3D content adhering to specific conditions and constraints. Existing methods often decompose 3D shapes into a sequence of localized components, treating each element in isolation without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Ruikai Cui , Weizhe Liu , Weixuan Sun , Senbo Wang , Taizhang Shang , Yang Li , Xibin Song , Han Yan , Zhennan Wu , Shenzhou Chen , Hongdong Li , Pan Ji

Single-image 3D generation has emerged as a prominent research topic, playing a vital role in virtual reality, 3D modeling, and digital content creation. However, existing methods face challenges such as a lack of multi-view geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinbo Yan , Alan Zhao , Yixin Hu

The ability to generate diverse 3D articulated head avatars is vital to a plethora of applications, including augmented reality, cinematography, and education. Recent work on text-guided 3D object generation has shown great promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Alexander W. Bergman , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein

In this paper, we rethink text-to-avatar generative models by proposing TeRA, a more efficient and effective framework than the previous SDS-based models and general large 3D generative models. Our approach employs a two-stage training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanwen Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Jiawei Zhang , Li Wang , Yifei Zeng , Xun Cao , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

In this paper, we present Export3D, a one-shot 3D-aware portrait animation method that is able to control the facial expression and camera view of a given portrait image. To achieve this, we introduce a tri-plane generator with an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taekyung Ki , Dongchan Min , Gyeongsu Chae

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

Most recent advances in 3D generative modeling rely on diffusion or flow-matching formulations. We instead explore a fully autoregressive alternative and introduce GaussianGPT, a transformer-based model that directly generates 3D Gaussians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Nicolas von Lützow , Barbara Rössle , Katharina Schmid , Matthias Nießner

3D-controllable portrait synthesis has significantly advanced, thanks to breakthroughs in generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, it is still challenging to manipulate existing face images with precise 3D control. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yuchen Liu , Zhixin Shu , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Richard Zhang , S. Y. Kung