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This paper aims to introduce 3D Gaussian for efficient, expressive, and editable digital avatar generation. This task faces two major challenges: (1) The unstructured nature of 3D Gaussian makes it incompatible with current generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Yunhui Liu , Xingdong Sheng , Xiaokang Yang

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

The creation of 3D human face avatars from a single unconstrained image is a fundamental task that underlies numerous real-world vision and graphics applications. Despite the significant progress made in generative models, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

We introduce AvatarBooth, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D avatars using text prompts or specific images. Unlike previous approaches that can only synthesize avatars based on simple text descriptions, our method enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yifei Zeng , Yuanxun Lu , Xinya Ji , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao

Generating realistic talking faces is an interesting and long-standing topic in the field of computer vision. Although significant progress has been made, it is still challenging to generate high-quality dynamic faces with personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bo Ding , Zhenfeng Fan , Shuang Yang , Shihong Xia

We introduce AvatarForge, a framework for generating animatable 3D human avatars from text or image inputs using AI-driven procedural generation. While diffusion-based methods have made strides in general 3D object generation, they struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xinhang Liu , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Despite progress in human motion capture, existing multi-view methods often face challenges in estimating the 3D pose and shape of multiple closely interacting people. This difficulty arises from reliance on accurate 2D joint estimations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feichi Lu , Zijian Dong , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

In contrast to the traditional avatar creation pipeline which is a costly process, contemporary generative approaches directly learn the data distribution from photographs. While plenty of works extend unconditional generative models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Junshu Tang , Bo Zhang , Binxin Yang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Lizhuang Ma , Fang Wen

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

Existing approaches for human avatar generation--both NeRF-based and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based--struggle with maintaining 3D consistency and exhibit degraded detail reconstruction, particularly when training with sparse inputs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Chen Yang , Wei Shen

We present a unified and generalizable framework for synthesizing view-consistent and temporally coherent avatars from a single image, addressing the challenging task of single-image avatar generation. Existing diffusion-based methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yixing Lu , Junting Dong , Youngjoong Kwon , Qin Zhao , Bo Dai , Fernando De la Torre

We introduce a highly robust GAN-based framework for digitizing a normalized 3D avatar of a person from a single unconstrained photo. While the input image can be of a smiling person or taken in extreme lighting conditions, our method can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Huiwen Luo , Koki Nagano , Han-Wei Kung , Mclean Goldwhite , Qingguo Xu , Zejian Wang , Lingyu Wei , Liwen Hu , Hao Li

Inspired by the effectiveness of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in reconstructing detailed 3D scenes within multi-view setups and the emergence of large 2D human foundation models, we introduce Arc2Avatar, the first SDS-based method utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Dimitrios Gerogiannis , Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Alexandros Lattas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

To represent people in mixed reality applications for collaboration and communication, we need to generate realistic and faithful avatar poses. However, the signal streams that can be applied for this task from head-mounted devices (HMDs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Sadegh Aliakbarian , Pashmina Cameron , Federica Bogo , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Thomas J. Cashman

We introduce AvatarPointillist, a novel framework for generating dynamic 4D Gaussian avatars from a single portrait image. At the core of our method is a decoder-only Transformer that autoregressively generates a point cloud for 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongyu Liu , Xuan Wang , Zijian Wu , Yating Wang , Ziyu Wan , Yue Ma , Runtao Liu , Boyao Zhou , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen

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

Synthesizing 3D faces that give certain personality impressions is commonly needed in computer games, animations, and virtual world applications for producing realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Yining Lang , Wei Liang , Yujia Wang , Lap-Fai Yu

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

Generating high-fidelity 3D head avatars from a single image is challenging, as current methods lack fine-grained, intuitive control over expressions via text. This paper proposes SIE3D, a framework that generates expressive 3D avatars from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhiqi Huang , Dulongkai Cui , Jinglu Hu