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We present Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars (D3GA), a multi-layered 3D controllable model for human bodies that utilizes 3D Gaussian primitives embedded into tetrahedral cages. The advantage of using cages compared to commonly employed linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Wojciech Zielonka , Timur Bagautdinov , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Justus Thies , Javier Romero

High-fidelity reconstruction of 3D human avatars has a wild application in visual reality. In this paper, we introduce FAGhead, a method that enables fully controllable human portraits from monocular videos. We explicit the traditional 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yixin Xuan , Xinyang Li , Gongxin Yao , Shiwei Zhou , Donghui Sun , Xiaoxin Chen , Yu Pan

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

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

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

Personalized 3D avatars require an animatable representation of digital humans. Doing so instantly from monocular videos offers scalability to broad class of users and wide-scale applications. In this paper, we present a fast, simple, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Pramish Paudel , Anubhav Khanal , Ajad Chhatkuli , Danda Pani Paudel , Jyoti Tandukar

Recent advancements in Gaussian-based human body reconstruction have achieved notable success in creating animatable avatars. However, there are ongoing challenges to fully exploit the SMPL model's prior knowledge and enhance the visual…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Chen Kai , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

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 generation of high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, with applications in VR, telepresence, and entertainment. Existing approaches based on implicit representations like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ramazan Fazylov , Sergey Zagoruyko , Aleksandr Parkin , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis , Ivan Laptev

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

In this paper, we propose Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian head Avatar (GAGAvatar) for one-shot animatable head avatar reconstruction. Existing methods rely on neural radiance fields, leading to heavy rendering consumption and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xuangeng Chu , Tatsuya Harada

Animatable clothing transfer, aiming at dressing and animating garments across characters, is a challenging problem. Most human avatar works entangle the representations of the human body and clothing together, which leads to difficulties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Siyou Lin , Zhe Li , Zhaoqi Su , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

Reconstructing high-quality 3D meshes and visuals from 3D Gaussian Splatting(3DGS) still remains a central challenge in computer graphics. Although existing models such as SuGaR offer effective solutions for rendering, there is is still…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jeong Uk Lee , Sung Hee Choi

Real-time rendering of photorealistic and controllable human avatars stands as a cornerstone in Computer Vision and Graphics. While recent advances in neural implicit rendering have unlocked unprecedented photorealism for digital avatars,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haokai Pang , Heming Zhu , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Efficient and accurate reconstruction of a relightable, dynamic clothed human avatar from a monocular video is crucial for the entertainment industry. This paper presents SGIA (Surfel-based Gaussian Inverse Avatar), which introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yiqun Zhao , Chenming Wu , Binbin Huang , Yihao Zhi , Chen Zhao , Jingdong Wang , Shenghua Gao

Existing 3D head avatar reconstruction methods adopt a two-stage process, relying on tracked FLAME meshes derived from facial landmarks, followed by Gaussian-based rendering. However, misalignment between the estimated mesh and target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yujian Liu , Linlang Cao , Chuang Chen , Fanyu Geng , Dongxu Shen , Peng Cao , Shidang Xu , Xiaoli Liu

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

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

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 propose a method to allow precise and extremely fast mesh extraction from 3D Gaussian Splatting. Gaussian Splatting has recently become very popular as it yields realistic rendering while being significantly faster to train than NeRFs.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Antoine Guédon , Vincent Lepetit