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Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D head avatars is crucial in various applications such as virtual reality. The pioneering methods reconstruct realistic head avatars with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which have been limited by training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Qingpo Wuwu , Xinyi Wang , Xingyu Xiao , Ming Lu

Surgical reconstruction of dynamic tissues from endoscopic videos is a crucial technology in robot-assisted surgery. The development of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) has greatly advanced deformable tissue reconstruction, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Wenfeng Huang , Xiangyun Liao , Yinling Qian , Hao Liu , Yongming Yang , Wenjing Jia , Qiong Wang

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its capability to generate high-fidelity rendering results. At the same time, most applications such as games, animation, and AR/VR use mesh-based representations to represent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Dinesh Manocha

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

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

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

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…

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

We present SplattingAvatar, a hybrid 3D representation of photorealistic human avatars with Gaussian Splatting embedded on a triangle mesh, which renders over 300 FPS on a modern GPU and 30 FPS on a mobile device. We disentangle the motion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zhijing Shao , Zhaolong Wang , Zhuang Li , Duotun Wang , Xiangru Lin , Yu Zhang , Mingming Fan , Zeyu Wang

Reconstructing dynamic objects from monocular videos is a severely underconstrained and challenging problem, and recent work has approached it in various directions. However, owing to the ill-posed nature of this problem, there has been no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Devikalyan Das , Christopher Wewer , Raza Yunus , Eddy Ilg , Jan Eric Lenssen

We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Haodi He , Jihun Yu , Ronald Fedkiw

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have unlocked significant potential for modeling 3D head avatars, providing greater flexibility than mesh-based methods and more efficient rendering compared to NeRF-based approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Peizhi Yan , Rabab Ward , Qiang Tang , Shan Du

We propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

We present a novel animatable 3D Gaussian model for rendering high-fidelity free-view human motions in real time. Compared to existing NeRF-based methods, the model owns better capability in synthesizing high-frequency details without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Keyang Ye , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

Creating relightable and animatable avatars from multi-view or monocular videos is a challenging task for digital human creation and virtual reality applications. Previous methods rely on neural radiance fields or ray tracing, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Youyi Zhan , Tianjia Shao , He Wang , Yin Yang , Kun Zhou

Photorealistic and animatable human avatars are a key enabler for virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Cheng Peng , Jingxiang Sun , Yushuo Chen , Zhaoqi Su , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marcel C. Bühler , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal