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Clothed avatar generation has wide applications in virtual and augmented reality, filmmaking, and more. Previous methods have achieved success in generating diverse digital avatars, however, generating avatars with disentangled components…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Sijing Wu , Manwen Liao , Xiaokang Yang

We present HuGDiffusion, a generalizable 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) learning pipeline to achieve novel view synthesis (NVS) of human characters from single-view input images. Existing approaches typically require monocular videos or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yingzhi Tang , Qijian Zhang , Junhui Hou

Recent advancements in Gaussian Splatting have enabled increasingly accurate reconstruction of photorealistic head avatars, opening the door to numerous applications in visual effects, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. This, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kelian Baert , Mae Younes , Francois Bourel , Marc Christie , Adnane Boukhayma

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

We introduce RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu

We present a novel pipeline for learning high-quality triangular human avatars from multi-view videos. Recent methods for avatar learning are typically based on neural radiance fields (NeRF), which is not compatible with traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yushuo Chen , Zerong Zheng , Zhe Li , Chao Xu , Yebin Liu

Despite recent advances in personalized image generation, existing models consistently fail to produce reliable multi-human scenes, often merging or losing facial identity. We present Ar2Can, a novel two-stage framework that disentangles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shubhankar Borse , Phuc Pham , Farzad Farhadzadeh , Seokeon Choi , Phong Ha Nguyen , Anh Tuan Tran , Sungrack Yun , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Creating high-fidelity, animatable 3D avatars from a single image remains a formidable challenge. We identified three desirable attributes of avatar generation: 1) the method should be feed-forward, 2) model a 360{\deg} full-head, and 3)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zehao Xia , Yiqun Wang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Jun Xiao , Peter Wonka

Powered by large-scale text-to-image generation models, text-to-3D avatar generation has made promising progress. However, most methods fail to produce photorealistic results, limited by imprecise geometry and low-quality appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuanyou Xu , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled fast, photorealistic rendering of dynamic 3D scenes, showing strong potential in immersive communication. However, in digital human encoding and transmission, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haocheng Tang , Ruoke Yan , Xinhui Yin , Qi Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao , Chuanmin Jia

Attribute guided face image synthesis aims to manipulate attributes on a face image. Most existing methods for image-to-image translation can either perform a fixed translation between any two image domains using a single attribute or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Mohammad Saeed Rad , Hazım Kemal Ekenel , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

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

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Generating high-fidelity human video with specified identities has attracted significant attention in the content generation community. However, existing techniques struggle to strike a balance between training efficiency and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Tao Hu , Ke Cao , Keyu Yan , Jie Zhang

While recent works have achieved great success on image-to-3D object generation, high quality and fidelity 3D head generation from a single image remains a great challenge. Previous text-based methods for generating 3D heads were limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinkun Hao , Junshu Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Yijia Hong , Moran Li , Weijian Cao , Yating Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

The ability to create realistic, animatable and relightable head avatars from casual video sequences would open up wide ranging applications in communication and entertainment. Current methods either build on explicit 3D morphable meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yufeng Zheng , Wang Yifan , Gordon Wetzstein , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Reconstructing an avatar from a portrait image has many applications in multimedia, but remains a challenging research problem. Extracting reflectance maps and geometry from one image is ill-posed: recovering geometry is a one-to-many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Abdallah Dib , Luiz Gustavo Hafemann , Emeline Got , Trevor Anderson , Amin Fadaeinejad , Rafael M. O. Cruz , Marc-Andre Carbonneau