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Reconstructing dynamic humans interacting with real-world environments from monocular videos is an important and challenging task. Despite considerable progress in 4D neural rendering, existing approaches either model dynamic scenes…

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Reconstructing 3D clothed human avatars from single images is a challenging task, especially when encountering complex poses and loose clothing. Current methods exhibit limitations in performance, largely attributable to their dependence on…

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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

The efficient reconstruction of high-quality and intuitively editable human avatars presents a pressing challenge in the field of computer vision. Recent advancements, such as 3DGS, have demonstrated impressive reconstruction efficiency and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Yichen Pan , Haiyao Xiao , Zhongmei Li , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen

We present a generalizable feed-forward Gaussian splatting framework for human 3D reconstruction and real-time animation that operates directly on multi-view RGB images and their associated SMPL-X poses. Unlike prior methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Devdoot Chatterjee , Zakaria Laskar , C. V. Jawahar

The creation of high-fidelity, digital versions of human heads is an important stepping stone in the process of further integrating virtual components into our everyday lives. Constructing such avatars is a challenging research problem, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Simon Giebenhain , Tobias Kirschstein , Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we take a significant step towards real-world applicability of monocular neural avatar reconstruction by contributing InstantAvatar, a system that can reconstruct human avatars from a monocular video within seconds, and these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tianjian Jiang , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Reconstructing complete and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging, particularly under severe occlusions. While 3D Gaussian Splatting has enabled photorealistic human rendering, existing methods struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jinlong Fan , Shanshan Zhao , Liang Zheng , Jing Zhang , Yuxiang Yang , Mingming Gong

We present a novel framework for animating humans in 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a neural scene representation that has recently achieved state-of-the-art photorealistic results for novel-view synthesis but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Aymen Mir , Jian Wang , Riza Alp Guler , Chuan Guo , Gerard Pons-Moll , Bing Zhou

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Many works have succeeded in reconstructing Gaussian human avatars from multi-view videos. However, they either struggle to capture pose-dependent appearance details with a single MLP, or rely on a computationally intensive neural network…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Modeling animatable human avatars from monocular or multi-view videos has been widely studied, with recent approaches leveraging neural radiance fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieving impressive results in novel-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yahui Li , Zhi Zeng , Liming Pang , Guixuan Zhang , Shuwu Zhang

Reconstructing dynamic humans together with static scenes from monocular videos remains difficult, especially under fast motion, where RGB frames suffer from motion blur. Event cameras exhibit distinct advantages, e.g., microsecond temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xiaoting Yin , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Jiajun Zhai , Shangwei Guo , Lin Wang , Kaiwei Wang

We present a novel method for reconstructing personalized 3D human avatars with realistic animation from only a few images. Due to the large variations in body shapes, poses, and cloth types, existing methods mostly require hours of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rong Wang , Fabian Prada , Ziyan Wang , Zhongshi Jiang , Chengxiang Yin , Junxuan Li , Shunsuke Saito , Igor Santesteban , Javier Romero , Rohan Joshi , Hongdong Li , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Reconstructing an interactive human avatar and the background from a monocular video of a dynamic human scene is highly challenging. In this work we adopt a strategy of point cloud decoupling and joint optimization to achieve the decoupled…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Da Li , Donggang Jia , Markus Hadwiger , Ivan Viola

We present Reduced Gaussian Blendshapes Avatar (RGBAvatar), a method for reconstructing photorealistic, animatable head avatars at speeds sufficient for on-the-fly reconstruction. Unlike prior approaches that utilize linear bases from 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Linzhou Li , Yumeng Li , Yanlin Weng , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

We propose SelfRecon, a clothed human body reconstruction method that combines implicit and explicit representations to recover space-time coherent geometries from a monocular self-rotating human video. Explicit methods require a predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Boyi Jiang , Yang Hong , Hujun Bao , Juyong Zhang

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

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

Photorealistic and controllable human avatars have gained popularity in the research community thanks to rapid advances in neural rendering, providing fast and realistic synthesis tools. However, a limitation of current solutions is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden