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We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

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

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

Real-time rendering of high-fidelity and animatable avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Over the past few years, the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has made significant progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qipeng Yan , Mingyang Sun , Lihua Zhang

Production-level workflows for producing convincing 3D dynamic human faces have long relied on an assortment of labor-intensive tools for geometry and texture generation, motion capture and rigging, and expression synthesis. Recent neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Longwen Zhang , Chuxiao Zeng , Qixuan Zhang , Hongyang Lin , Ruixiang Cao , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

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

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

We propose selective-training Gaussian head avatars (STGA) to enhance the details of dynamic head Gaussian. The dynamic head Gaussian model is trained based on the FLAME parameterized model. Each Gaussian splat is embedded within the FLAME…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Hanzhi Guo , Yixiao Chen , Dongye Xiaonuo , Zeyu Tian , Dongdong Weng , Le Luo

Human video generation task has gained significant attention with the advancement of deep generative models. Generating realistic videos with human movements is challenging in nature, due to the intricacies of human body topology and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengyi Shan , Mohammad Farazi , Wenhui Zhu , Yanxi Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have unlocked significant potential for modeling 3D head avatars, providing greater flexibility than mesh-based methods and more efficient rendering compared to NeRF-based approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Peizhi Yan , Rabab Ward , Qiang Tang , Shan Du

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

We introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shengjie Ma , Yanlin Weng , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Creating and customizing a 3D clothed avatar from textual descriptions is a critical and challenging task. Traditional methods often treat the human body and clothing as inseparable, limiting users' ability to freely mix and match garments.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jia Gong , Shenyu Ji , Lin Geng Foo , Kang Chen , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

In this paper, we present a novel 3D head avatar creation approach capable of generalizing from few-shot in-the-wild data with high-fidelity and animatable robustness. Given the underconstrained nature of this problem, incorporating prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaozheng Zheng , Chao Wen , Zhaohu Li , Weiyi Zhang , Zhuo Su , Xu Chang , Yang Zhao , Zheng Lv , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yongjie Zhang , Guidong Wang , Lan Xu