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Leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion models and score distillation sampling (SDS), recent methods have shown promising results for text-to-3D avatar generation. However, generating high-quality 3D avatars capable of expressive animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yukun Huang , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha , Lei Zhang , Xihui Liu

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

Photorealistic avatars have become essential for immersive applications in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), enabling lifelike interactions in areas such as training simulations, telemedicine, and virtual collaboration. These…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Rendong Zhang , Alexandra Watkins , Nilanjan Sarkar

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

Recently, text-to-image generation has exhibited remarkable advancements, with the ability to produce visually impressive results. In contrast, text-to-3D generation has not yet reached a comparable level of quality. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

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

Although neural rendering has made significant advances in creating lifelike, animatable full-body and head avatars, incorporating detailed expressions into full-body avatars remains largely unexplored. We present DEGAS, the first 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhijing Shao , Duotun Wang , Qing-Yao Tian , Yao-Dong Yang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Bo Dong , Yu Zhang , Kang Zhang , Zeyu Wang

We propose a method for synthesizing edited photo-realistic digital avatars with text instructions. Given a short monocular RGB video and text instructions, our method uses an image-conditioned diffusion model to edit one head image and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shaoxu Li

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

Human-centric generative models designed for AI-driven storytelling must bring together two core capabilities: identity consistency and precise control over human performance. While recent diffusion-based approaches have made significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou , Stefanos Zafeiriou

We introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Shengjie Ma , Yanlin Weng , Tianjia Shao , Kun Zhou

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

Recently, we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However, due to the diversity of frameworks, there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Bao , Yinda Zhang , Yuan Li , Xiyu Zhang , Bangbang Yang , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Modeling relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular video is a long-standing and challenging task. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have been employed to reconstruct the avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Seonghwa Choi , Moonkyeong Choi , Mingyu Jang , Jaekyung Kim , Jianfei Cai , Wen-Huang Cheng , Sanghoon Lee

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

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

We present a novel framework for animating humans in 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a neural scene representation that has recently achieved state-of-the-art photorealistic results for novel-view synthesis but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Aymen Mir , Jian Wang , Riza Alp Guler , Chuan Guo , Gerard Pons-Moll , Bing Zhou

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

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

Creating high-quality 3D avatars using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) from a monocular video benefits virtual reality and telecommunication applications. However, existing automatic methods exhibit artifacts under novel poses due to limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jotaro Sakamiya , I-Chao Shen , Jinsong Zhang , Mustafa Doga Dogan , Takeo Igarashi