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Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

We introduce MIGS (Multi-Identity Gaussian Splatting), a novel method that learns a single neural representation for multiple identities, using only monocular videos. Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) approaches for human avatars require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Aggelina Chatziagapi , Grigorios G. Chrysos , Dimitris Samaras

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

We present FastAvatar, a fast and robust algorithm for single-image 3D face reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Given a single input image from an arbitrary pose, FastAvatar recovers a high-quality, full-head 3DGS avatar in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hao Liang , Zhixuan Ge , Soumendu Majee , Ashish Tiwari , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Generating high-fidelity real-time animated sequences of photorealistic 3D head avatars is important for many graphics applications, including immersive telepresence and movies. This is a challenging problem particularly when rendering…

Efficiently digitizing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from videos is a challenging and active research topic. Recent volume rendering-based neural representations open a new way for human digitization with their friendly usability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xiaoke Huang , Yiji Cheng , Yansong Tang , Xiu Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) enables highly photorealistic scene reconstruction from posed image sequences but struggles with viewpoint extrapolation due to its anisotropic nature, leading to overfitting and poor generalization, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuohan Tao , Boyao Zhou , Hanzhang Tu , Yuwang Wang , Yebin Liu

While novel view synthesis (NVS) for dynamic scenes has seen significant progress, reconstructing temporally consistent geometric surfaces remains a challenge. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offer powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Minje Kim , Younghyun Noh , Jaesoon Kim , Tae-Kyun Kim

Reconstructing high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from effortlessly captured monocular videos is a pivotal yet formidable challenge. Although significant progress has been made in rendering performance and manipulation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiawei Zhang , Zijian Wu , Zhiyang Liang , Yicheng Gong , Dongfang Hu , Yao Yao , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

While recent 3D head avatar creation methods attempt to animate facial dynamics, they often fail to capture personalized details, limiting realism and expressiveness. To fill this gap, we present DipGuava (Disentangled and Personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jeonghaeng Lee , Seok Keun Choi , Zhixuan Li , Weisi Lin , Sanghoon Lee

Articulated objects, as prevalent entities in human life, their 3D representations play crucial roles across various applications. However, achieving both high-fidelity textured surface reconstruction and dynamic generation for articulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Di Wu , Liu Liu , Zhou Linli , Anran Huang , Liangtu Song , Qiaojun Yu , Qi Wu , Cewu Lu

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

We introduce GaussianAvatar-Editor, an innovative framework for text-driven editing of animatable Gaussian head avatars that can be fully controlled in expression, pose, and viewpoint. Unlike static 3D Gaussian editing, editing animatable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Xiangyue Liu , Kunming Luo , Heng Li , Qi Zhang , Yuan Liu , Li Yi , Ping Tan

Facial expression and hand motions are necessary to express our emotions and interact with the world. Nevertheless, most of the 3D human avatars modeled from a casually captured video only support body motions without facial expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Gyeongsik Moon , Takaaki Shiratori , Shunsuke Saito

Following the advent of NeRFs, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has paved the way to real-time neural rendering overcoming the computational burden of volumetric methods. Following the pioneering work of 3D-GS, several methods have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evangelos Ververas , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jifei Song , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou

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

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

Creating controllable 3D human portraits from casual smartphone videos is highly desirable due to their immense value in AR/VR applications. The recent development of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown improvements in rendering quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Alfredo Rivero , ShahRukh Athar , Zhixin Shu , Dimitris Samaras

Photorealistic and controllable human avatars have gained popularity in the research community thanks to rapid advances in neural rendering, providing fast and realistic synthesis tools. However, a limitation of current solutions is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden