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Constructing drivable and photorealistic 3D head avatars has become a central task in AR/XR, enabling immersive and expressive user experiences. With the emergence of high-fidelity and efficient representations such as 3D Gaussians, recent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jaeseong Lee , Junyeong Ahn , Taewoong Kang , Jaegul Choo

While there has been significant progress in the field of 3D avatar creation from visual observations, modeling physically plausible dynamics of humans with loose garments remains a challenging problem. Although a few existing works address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Changmin Lee , Jihyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

High-fidelity head avatar reconstruction plays a crucial role in AR/VR, gaming, and multimedia content creation. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated effectiveness in modeling complex geometry with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shikun Zhang , Cunjian Chen , Yiqun Wang , Qiuhong Ke , Yong Li

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

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

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 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

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Steiner , Zhang Chen , Alexander Richard , Vasu Agrawal , Markus Steinberger , Michael Zollhöfer

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

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu

Gaussian-based human avatars have achieved an unprecedented level of visual fidelity. However, existing approaches based on high-capacity neural networks typically require a desktop GPU to achieve real-time performance for a single avatar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Forrest Iandola , Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Igor Santesteban , Divam Gupta , Anuj Pahuja , Nemanja Bartolovic , Frank Yu , Emanuel Garbin , Tomas Simon , Shunsuke Saito

Reconstructing photo-realistic drivable human avatars from multi-view image sequences has been a popular and challenging topic in the field of computer vision and graphics. While existing NeRF-based methods can achieve high-quality novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yujiao Jiang , Qingmin Liao , Xiaoyu Li , Li Ma , Qi Zhang , Chaopeng Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Ying Shan

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

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 an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

Powered by large-scale text-to-image generation models, text-to-3D avatar generation has made promising progress. However, most methods fail to produce photorealistic results, limited by imprecise geometry and low-quality appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuanyou Xu , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

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…