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Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

We present a feed-forward framework for Gaussian full-head synthesis from a single unposed image. Unlike previous work that relies on time-consuming GAN inversion and test-time optimization, our framework can reconstruct the Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Peng Li , Yisheng He , Yingdong Hu , Yuan Dong , Weihao Yuan , Yuan Liu , Siyu Zhu , Gang Cheng , Zilong Dong , Yike Guo

In this paper, we rethink text-to-avatar generative models by proposing TeRA, a more efficient and effective framework than the previous SDS-based models and general large 3D generative models. Our approach employs a two-stage training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yanwen Wang , Yiyu Zhuang , Jiawei Zhang , Li Wang , Yifei Zeng , Xun Cao , Xinxin Zuo , Hao Zhu

Existing Human NeRF methods for reconstructing 3D humans typically rely on multiple 2D images from multi-view cameras or monocular videos captured from fixed camera views. However, in real-world scenarios, human images are often captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shoukang Hu , Fangzhou Hong , Liang Pan , Haiyi Mei , Lei Yang , Ziwei Liu

We propose a neural rendering-based system that creates head avatars from a single photograph. Our approach models a person's appearance by decomposing it into two layers. The first layer is a pose-dependent coarse image that is synthesized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Egor Zakharov , Aleksei Ivakhnenko , Aliaksandra Shysheya , Victor Lempitsky

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

Zero-shot novel view synthesis (NVS) from a single image is an essential problem in 3D object understanding. While recent approaches that leverage pre-trained generative models can synthesize high-quality novel views from in-the-wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Jianglong Ye , Peng Wang , Kejie Li , Yichun Shi , Heng Wang

Synthesizing consistent and photorealistic 3D scenes is an open problem in computer vision. Video diffusion models generate impressive videos but cannot directly synthesize 3D representations, i.e., lack 3D consistency in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Katja Schwarz , Norman Mueller , Peter Kontschieder

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

This paper presents a 3D generative model that uses diffusion models to automatically generate 3D digital avatars represented as neural radiance fields. A significant challenge in generating such avatars is that the memory and processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Tengfei Wang , Bo Zhang , Ting Zhang , Shuyang Gu , Jianmin Bao , Tadas Baltrusaitis , Jingjing Shen , Dong Chen , Fang Wen , Qifeng Chen , Baining Guo

Recent advances in diffusion models such as ControlNet have enabled geometrically controllable, high-fidelity text-to-image generation. However, none of them addresses the question of adding such controllability to text-to-3D generation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sungwon Hwang , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

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

Current Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can generate photorealistic novel views. For editing 3D scenes represented by NeRF, with the advent of generative models, this paper proposes Inpaint4DNeRF to capitalize on state-of-the-art stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Han Jiang , Haosen Sun , Ruoxuan Li , Chi-Keung Tang , Yu-Wing Tai

Generative Neural Radiance Field (GNeRF) models, which extract implicit 3D representations from 2D images, have recently been shown to produce realistic images representing rigid/semi-rigid objects, such as human faces or cars. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jichao Zhang , Enver Sangineto , Hao Tang , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Wei Wang

The generation of high-quality, animatable 3D head avatars from text has enormous potential in content creation applications such as games, movies, and embodied virtual assistants. Current text-to-3D generation methods typically combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yiqian Wu , Malte Prinzler , Xiaogang Jin , Siyu Tang

Photo-realistic and controllable 3D avatars are crucial for various applications such as virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR), telepresence, gaming, and film production. Traditional methods for avatar creation often involve time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Keqiang Sun , Amin Jourabloo , Riddhish Bhalodia , Moustafa Meshry , Yu Rong , Zhengyu Yang , Thu Nguyen-Phuoc , Christian Haene , Jiu Xu , Sam Johnson , Hongsheng Li , Sofien Bouaziz

Recent progress in neural rendering has brought forth pioneering methods, such as NeRF and Gaussian Splatting, which revolutionize view rendering across various domains like AR/VR, gaming, and content creation. While these methods excel at…

Text-guided domain adaptation and generation of 3D-aware portraits find many applications in various fields. However, due to the lack of training data and the challenges in handling the high variety of geometry and appearance, the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Biwen Lei , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Miaomiao Cui , Xuansong Xie

High-fidelity facial avatar reconstruction from a monocular video is a significant research problem in computer graphics and computer vision. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has shown impressive novel view rendering results and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yunpeng Bai , Yanbo Fan , Xuan Wang , Yong Zhang , Jingxiang Sun , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

We address the challenging problem of generating facial attributes using a single image in an unconstrained pose. In contrast to prior works that largely consider generation on 2D near-frontal images, we propose a GAN-based framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Feng-Ju Chang , Xiang Yu , Ram Nevatia , Manmohan Chandraker