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A photorealistic and controllable 3D caricaturization framework for faces is introduced. We start with an intrinsic Gaussian curvature-based surface exaggeration technique, which, when coupled with texture, tends to produce over-smoothed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eldad Matmon , Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , Ron Kimmel

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

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Reconstructing a high-quality, animatable 3D human avatar with expressive facial and hand motions from a single image has gained significant attention due to its broad application potential. 3D human avatar reconstruction typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yang Li , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Neural radiance fields are capable of reconstructing high-quality drivable human avatars but are expensive to train and render and not suitable for multi-human scenes with complex shadows. To reduce consumption, we propose Animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yang Liu , Xiang Huang , Minghan Qin , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

In this paper, we propose to create animatable avatars for interacting hands with 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and single-image inputs. Existing GS-based methods designed for single subjects often yield unsatisfactory results due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuan Huang , Hanhui Li , Wanquan Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yiqiang Yan , Yuhao Cheng , Chengqiang Gao

Personalized 3D avatar editing holds significant promise due to its user-friendliness and availability to applications such as AR/VR and virtual try-ons. Previous studies have explored the feasibility of 3D editing, but often struggle to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hanxi Liu , Yifang Men , Zhouhui Lian

Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 SeungJun Moon , Hah Min Lew , Seungeun Lee , Ji-Su Kang , Gyeong-Moon Park

Speech-driven talking heads have recently emerged and enable interactive avatars. However, real-world applications are limited, as current methods achieve high visual fidelity but slow or fast yet temporally unstable. Diffusion methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Madhav Agarwal , Mingtian Zhang , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Steven McDonagh

Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot, but it remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper, we propose HHAvatar represented by controllable 3D Gaussians for high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhanfeng Liao , Yuelang Xu , Zhe Li , Qijing Li , Boyao Zhou , Ruifeng Bai , Di Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides an efficient method for high-quality scene reconstruction using anisotropic Gaussians. Recently, 3DGS-based methods have significantly improved the rendering quality of human avatars while enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hongzhe Liao , Chuhua Xian , Hongmin Cai , Haiyang Liu , Fa-Ting Hong

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

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

Sparse volumetric reconstruction and rendering via 3D Gaussian splatting have recently enabled animatable 3D head avatars that are rendered under arbitrary viewpoints with impressive photorealism. Today, such photoreal avatars are seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Gengyan Li , Paulo Gotardo , Timo Bolkart , Stephan Garbin , Kripasindhu Sarkar , Abhimitra Meka , Alexandros Lattas , Thabo Beeler

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

Creating high-fidelity, real-time drivable 3D head avatars is a core challenge in digital animation. While 3D Gaussian Splashing (3D-GS) offers unprecedented rendering speed and quality, current animation techniques often rely on a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhe Chang , Haodong Jin , Yan Song , Hui Yu

Reconstructing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging due to insufficient geometric information in single-view observations. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinlong Fan , Bingyu Hu , Xingguang Li , Yuxiang Yang , Jing Zhang

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

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 significant progress in 3D avatar reconstruction, it still faces challenges such as high time complexity, sensitivity to data quality, and low data utilization. We propose FastAvatar, a feedforward 3D avatar framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yue Wu , Xuanhong Chen , Yufan Wu , Wen Li , Yuxi Lu , Kairui Feng