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Driving a high-quality and photorealistic full-body virtual human from a few RGB cameras is a challenging problem that has become increasingly relevant with emerging virtual reality technologies. A promising solution to democratize such…

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We present a novel approach for generating animatable 3D-aware art avatars from a single image, with controllable facial expressions, head poses, and shoulder movements. Unlike previous reenactment methods, our approach utilizes a…

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Personalized 3D avatar editing holds significant promise due to its user-friendliness and availability to applications such as AR/VR and virtual try-ons. Previous studies have explored the feasibility of 3D editing, but often struggle to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hanxi Liu , Yifang Men , Zhouhui Lian

We propose selective-training Gaussian head avatars (STGA) to enhance the details of dynamic head Gaussian. The dynamic head Gaussian model is trained based on the FLAME parameterized model. Each Gaussian splat is embedded within the FLAME…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Hanzhi Guo , Yixiao Chen , Dongye Xiaonuo , Zeyu Tian , Dongdong Weng , Le Luo

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

Gaussian-based human avatars have achieved an unprecedented level of visual fidelity. However, existing approaches based on high-capacity neural networks typically require a desktop GPU to achieve real-time performance for a single avatar,…

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In this paper, we explore a reconstruction and reenactment separated framework for 3D Gaussians head, which requires only a single portrait image as input to generate controllable avatar. Specifically, we developed a large-scale one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhiling Ye , Cong Zhou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Weihong Deng , Quan Lu

While recent 3D head avatar creation methods attempt to animate facial dynamics, they often fail to capture personalized details, limiting realism and expressiveness. To fill this gap, we present DipGuava (Disentangled and Personalized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jeonghaeng Lee , Seok Keun Choi , Zhixuan Li , Weisi Lin , Sanghoon Lee

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

We introduce ELITE, an Efficient Gaussian head avatar synthesis from a monocular video via Learned Initialization and TEst-time generative adaptation. Prior works rely either on a 3D data prior or a 2D generative prior to compensate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Kim Youwang , Lee Hyoseok , Subin Park , Gerard Pons-Moll , Tae-Hyun Oh

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…

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We propose a novel 3D deepfake generation framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that enables realistic, identity-preserving face swapping and reenactment in a fully controllable 3D space. Compared to conventional 2D deepfake approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Wending Liu , Siyun Liang , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen

In this paper, we present a novel method that facilitates the creation of vivid 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular video inputs (GVA). Our innovation lies in addressing the intricate challenges of delivering high-fidelity human body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Xinqi Liu , Chenming Wu , Jialun Liu , Xing Liu , Jinbo Wu , Chen Zhao , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Photorealistic and controllable human avatars have gained popularity in the research community thanks to rapid advances in neural rendering, providing fast and realistic synthesis tools. However, a limitation of current solutions is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

We present UIKA, a feed-forward animatable Gaussian head model from an arbitrary number of pose-free inputs, including a single image, multi-view captures, and smartphone-captured videos. Unlike the traditional avatar method, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zijian Wu , Boyao Zhou , Liangxiao Hu , Hongyu Liu , Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , Xun Cao , Yujun Shen , Hao Zhu

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

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