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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a standard approach to reconstruct and render photorealistic 3D head avatars. A major challenge is to relight the avatars to match any scene illumination. For high quality relighting, existing methods…

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Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu

Animatable 3D reconstruction has significant applications across various fields, primarily relying on artists' handcraft creation. Recently, some studies have successfully constructed animatable 3D models from monocular videos. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tingyang Zhang , Qingzhe Gao , Weiyu Li , Libin Liu , Baoquan Chen

We propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

In this paper, we propose Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian head Avatar (GAGAvatar) for one-shot animatable head avatar reconstruction. Existing methods rely on neural radiance fields, leading to heavy rendering consumption and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuangeng Chu , Tatsuya Harada

We introduce RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

We introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Gent Serifi , Marcel C. Buehler

We introduce GaussianAvatars, a new method to create photorealistic head avatars that are fully controllable in terms of expression, pose, and viewpoint. The core idea is a dynamic 3D representation based on 3D Gaussian splats that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Shenhan Qian , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Davide Davoli , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

We introduce GaussianSwap, a novel video face swapping framework that constructs a 3D Gaussian Splatting based face avatar from a target video while transferring identity from a source image to the avatar. Conventional video swapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xuan Cheng , Jiahao Rao , Chengyang Li , Wenhao Wang , Weilin Chen , Lvqing Yang

By equipping the most recent 3D Gaussian Splatting representation with head 3D morphable models (3DMM), existing methods manage to create head avatars with high fidelity. However, most existing methods only reconstruct a head without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Tianhao Wu , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Jingyi Wan , Fangcheng Zhong , Cengiz Oztireli

Realistic 3D full-body talking avatars hold great potential in AR, with applications ranging from e-commerce live streaming to holographic communication. Despite advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for lifelike avatar creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jianchuan Chen , Jingchuan Hu , Gaige Wang , Zhonghua Jiang , Tiansong Zhou , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv

Creating digital avatars from textual prompts has long been a desirable yet challenging task. Despite the promising results achieved with 2D diffusion priors, current methods struggle to create high-quality and consistent animated avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenglin Zhou , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

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

We propose a novel framework for decomposing arbitrarily posed humans into animatable multi-layered 3D human avatars, separating the body and garments. Conventional single-layer reconstruction methods lock clothing to one identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana

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

Virtual production (VP) use LED walls to provide both background imagery and image-based lighting. While this enables on-set compositing, it couples lighting to background and scene appearance, limiting flexibility for downstream editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adrian Azzarelli , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , James Pollock , David R. Bull

Rendering dynamic scenes from monocular videos is a crucial yet challenging task. The recent deformable Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a robust solution to represent real-world dynamic scenes. However, it often leads to heavily redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Hanyang Kong , Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

We present a spatial and angular Gaussian based representation and a triple splatting process, for real-time, high-quality novel lighting-and-view synthesis from multi-view point-lit input images. To describe complex appearance, we employ a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zoubin Bi , Yixin Zeng , Chong Zeng , Fan Pei , Xiang Feng , Kun Zhou , Hongzhi Wu