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Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

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3D-aware portrait editing has a wide range of applications in multiple fields. However, current approaches are limited due that they can only perform mask-guided or text-based editing. Even by fusing the two procedures into a model, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Kangneng Zhou , Daiheng Gao , Xuan Wang , Jie Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xusen Sun , Longhao Zhang , Shiqi Yang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng

We present TimeWalker, a novel framework that models realistic, full-scale 3D head avatars of a person on lifelong scale. Unlike current human head avatar pipelines that capture identity at the momentary level(e.g., instant photography or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dongwei Pan , Yang Li , Hongsheng Li , Kwan-Yee Lin

Training embodied AI agents depends critically on the visual fidelity of simulation environments and the ability to model dynamic humans. Current simulators rely on mesh-based rasterization with limited visual realism, and their support for…

Text-to-Avatar generation has recently made significant strides due to advancements in diffusion models. However, most existing work remains constrained by limited diversity, producing avatars with subtle differences in appearance for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Weijing Tao , Biwen Lei , Kunhao Liu , Shijian Lu , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie , Chunyan Miao

We present FlexAvatar, a flexible large reconstruction model for high-fidelity 3D head avatars with detailed dynamic deformation from single or sparse images, without requiring camera poses or expression labels. It leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Cheng Peng , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Chen Guo , Zhaohu Li , Chengjiang Long , Zheng Lv , Jingxiang Sun , Chenyangguang Zhang , Yebin Liu

There has been significant progress in generating an animatable 3D human avatar from a single image. However, recovering texture for the 3D human avatar from a single image has been relatively less addressed. Because the generated 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Sihun Cha , Kwanggyoon Seo , Amirsaman Ashtari , Junyong Noh

We introduce a novel approach to creating ultra-realistic head avatars and rendering them in real-time (>30fps at $2048 \times 1334$ resolution). First, we propose a hybrid explicit representation that combines the advantages of two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongrui Cai , Yuting Xiao , Xuan Wang , Jiafei Li , Yudong Guo , Yanbo Fan , Shenghua Gao , Juyong Zhang

We propose GGAvatar, a novel 3D avatar representation designed to robustly model dynamic head avatars with complex identities and deformations. GGAvatar employs a coarse-to-fine structure, featuring two core modules: Neutral Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xinyang Li , Jiaxin Wang , Yixin Xuan , Gongxin Yao , Yu Pan

Generating high-fidelity upper-body 3D avatars from one-shot input image remains a significant challenge. Current 3D avatar generation methods, which rely on large reconstruction models, are fast and capable of producing stable body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Yang , Heyuan Li , Peihao Li , Weihao Yuan , Lingteng Qiu , Chaoyue Song , Cheng Chen , Yisheng He , Shifeng Zhang , Xiaoguang Han , Steven Hoi , Guosheng Lin

Reconstructing high-fidelity and animatable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging yet essential task. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting typically bind Gaussians to mesh triangles and model deformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jiankuo Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Zidu Wang , Zhen Lei

We present FaceLift, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable high-quality 360-degree 3D head reconstruction from a single image. Our pipeline first employs a multi-view latent diffusion model to generate consistent side and back…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Weijie Lyu , Yi Zhou , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

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

We present MoGA, a novel method to reconstruct high-fidelity 3D Gaussian avatars from a single-view image. The main challenge lies in inferring unseen appearance and geometric details while ensuring 3D consistency and realism. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zijian Dong , Longteng Duan , Jie Song , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger

With the advancement of virtual reality, the demand for 3D human avatars is increasing. The emergence of Gaussian Splatting technology has enabled the rendering of Gaussian avatars with superior visual quality and reduced computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiaonuo Dongye , Hanzhi Guo , Le Luo , Haiyan Jiang , Yihua Bao , Jie Guo , Zeyu Tian , Dongdong Weng

Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

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…

Despite recent progress in 3D Gaussian-based head avatar modeling, efficiently generating high fidelity avatars remains a challenge. Current methods typically rely on extensive multi-view capture setups or monocular videos with per-identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinya Ji , Sebastian Weiss , Manuel Kansy , Jacek Naruniec , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

We present a novel, zero-shot pipeline for creating hyperrealistic, identity-preserving 3D avatars from a few unstructured phone images. Existing methods face several challenges: single-view approaches suffer from geometric inconsistencies…

We present a method for consistent lighting and shadows when animated 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) avatars interact with 3DGS scenes or with dynamic objects inserted into otherwise static scenes. Our key contribution is Deep Gaussian Shadow…

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