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Reconstructing the geometry and appearance of objects from photographs taken in different environments is difficult as the illumination and therefore the object appearance vary across captured images. This is particularly challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hadi Alzayer , Philipp Henzler , Jonathan T. Barron , Jia-Bin Huang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

We introduce Gaussian Garments, a novel approach for reconstructing realistic simulation-ready garment assets from multi-view videos. Our method represents garments with a combination of a 3D mesh and a Gaussian texture that encodes both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Boxiang Rong , Artur Grigorev , Wenbo Wang , Michael J. Black , Bernhard Thomaszewski , Christina Tsalicoglou , Otmar Hilliges

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…

We present FlexAvatar, a flexible large reconstruction model for high-fidelity 3D head avatars with detailed dynamic deformation from single or sparse images, without requiring camera poses or expression labels. It leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cheng Peng , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Chen Guo , Zhaohu Li , Chengjiang Long , Zheng Lv , Jingxiang Sun , Chenyangguang Zhang , Yebin Liu

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

3D head animation has seen major quality and runtime improvements over the last few years, particularly empowered by the advances in differentiable rendering and neural radiance fields. Real-time rendering is a highly desirable goal for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Helisa Dhamo , Yinyu Nie , Arthur Moreau , Jifei Song , Richard Shaw , Yiren Zhou , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

In this work, a system for creating a relightable 3D portrait of a human head is presented. Our neural pipeline operates on a sequence of frames captured by a smartphone camera with the flash blinking (flash-no flash sequence). A coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Artem Sevastopolsky , Savva Ignatiev , Gonzalo Ferrer , Evgeny Burnaev , Victor Lempitsky

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown impressive results for the novel view synthesis task, where lighting is assumed to be fixed. However, creating relightable 3D assets, especially for objects with ill-defined shapes (fur, fabric, etc.),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiahui Fan , Fujun Luan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

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

Reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 4D head avatars from a single portrait image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While diffusion models have enabled remarkable progress in image and video generation for avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chao Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , Xiang Deng , Jingxiang Sun , Donglin Di , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

We propose RelitLRM, a Large Reconstruction Model (LRM) for generating high-quality Gaussian splatting representations of 3D objects under novel illuminations from sparse (4-8) posed images captured under unknown static lighting. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhengfei Kuang , Haian Jin , Zexiang Xu , Sai Bi , Hao Tan , He Zhang , Yiwei Hu , Milos Hasan , William T. Freeman , Kai Zhang , Fujun Luan

We propose a 3D Gaussian splatting-based framework for outdoor relighting that leverages intrinsic image decomposition to precisely integrate sunlight, sky radiance, and indirect lighting from unconstrained photo collections. Unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Haiyang Bai , Jiaqi Zhu , Songru Jiang , Wei Huang , Tao Lu , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Runze Fu , Yanwen Guo , Lijun Chen

Capturing relightable 3D assets from real-world objects is a widely researched problem. Several per-scene optimization-based methods, based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), support relighting; however, they usually require dense input…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guangming Fu , Jiahui Fan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

This paper presents a 3D Gaussian Inverse Rendering (GIR) method, employing 3D Gaussian representations to effectively factorize the scene into material properties, light, and geometry. The key contributions lie in three-fold. We compute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yahao Shi , Yanmin Wu , Chenming Wu , Xing Liu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Jian Zhang , Bin Zhou , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

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

Recovering the 3D shape of transparent objects using a small number of unconstrained natural images is an ill-posed problem. Complex light paths induced by refraction and reflection have prevented both traditional and deep multiview stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Zhengqin Li , Yu-Ying Yeh , Manmohan Chandraker

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

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

High-quality, animatable 3D human avatar reconstruction from monocular videos offers significant potential for reducing reliance on complex hardware, making it highly practical for applications in game development, augmented reality, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xia Yuan , Hai Yuan , Wenyi Ge , Ying Fu , Xi Wu , Guanyu Xing