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Existing 3D clothed avatar reconstruction methods achieve high visual fidelity but ignore geometric structure and physical plausibility. They either model clothed humans as a single deformable surface or attempt garment disentanglement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Daniel Eskandar , Berna Kabadayi , Garvita Tiwari , Gerard Pons-Moll

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

This work addresses the problem of real-time rendering of photorealistic human body avatars learned from multi-view videos. While the classical approaches to model and render virtual humans generally use a textured mesh, recent research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Helisa Dhamo , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

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

Radiance field-based methods have recently been used to reconstruct human avatars, showing that we can significantly downscale the systems needed for creating animated human avatars. Although this progress has been initiated by neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nikolaos Zioulis , Nikolaos Kotarelas , Georgios Albanis , Spyridon Thermos , Anargyros Chatzitofis

We present AHOY, a method for reconstructing complete, animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from in-the-wild monocular video despite heavy occlusion. Existing methods assume unoccluded input-a fully visible subject, often in a canonical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Aymen Mir , Riza Alp Guler , Xiangjun Tang , Peter Wonka , Gerard Pons-Moll

Reconstructing 3D assets from images, known as inverse rendering (IR), remains a challenging task due to its ill-posed nature. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities for novel view synthesis (NVS) tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hanxiao Sun , YuPeng Gao , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

Gaussian Splatting has changed the game for real-time photo-realistic rendering. One of the most popular applications of Gaussian Splatting is to create animatable avatars, known as Gaussian Avatars. Recent works have pushed the boundaries…

Recent advances in neural radiance fields enable novel view synthesis of photo-realistic images in dynamic settings, which can be applied to scenarios with human animation. Commonly used implicit backbones to establish accurate models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero , Yiren Zhou , Zhihao Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

We present InstantGeoAvatar, a method for efficient and effective learning from monocular video of detailed 3D geometry and appearance of animatable implicit human avatars. Our key observation is that the optimization of a hash grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alvaro Budria , Adrian Lopez-Rodriguez , Oscar Lorente , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Recent advancements in Gaussian Splatting have enabled increasingly accurate reconstruction of photorealistic head avatars, opening the door to numerous applications in visual effects, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. This, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kelian Baert , Mae Younes , Francois Bourel , Marc Christie , Adnane Boukhayma

Despite recent progress in 3D Gaussian-based head avatar modeling, efficiently generating high fidelity avatars remains a challenge. Current methods typically rely on extensive multi-view capture setups or monocular videos with per-identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinya Ji , Sebastian Weiss , Manuel Kansy , Jacek Naruniec , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

We present a method that enables synthesizing novel views and novel poses of arbitrary human performers from sparse multi-view images. A key ingredient of our method is a hybrid appearance blending module that combines the advantages of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Youngjoong Kwon , Dahun Kim , Duygu Ceylan , Henry Fuchs

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

We introduce a novel framework for modeling high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars from motion-blurred monocular video inputs. Motion blur is prevalent in real-world dynamic video capture, especially due to human movements in 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Fan Yang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

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

In this work, we propose a novel clothed human reconstruction method called GaussianBody, based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. Compared with the costly neural radiance based models, 3D Gaussian Splatting has recently demonstrated great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen

Photorealistic avatars have become essential for immersive applications in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), enabling lifelike interactions in areas such as training simulations, telemedicine, and virtual collaboration. These…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Rendong Zhang , Alexandra Watkins , Nilanjan Sarkar

Implicit neural representation has paved the way for new approaches to dynamic scene reconstruction and rendering. Nonetheless, cutting-edge dynamic neural rendering methods rely heavily on these implicit representations, which frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ziyi Yang , Xinyu Gao , Wen Zhou , Shaohui Jiao , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaogang Jin

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