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Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in capturing complex 3D scenes with high fidelity. However, one persistent challenge that hinders the widespread adoption of NeRFs is the computational bottleneck due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves impressive quality and rendering speed, but with millions of 3D Gaussians and significant storage and transmission costs. In this paper, we aim to develop a simple yet effective method called NeuralGS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhenyu Tang , Chaoran Feng , Xinhua Cheng , Wangbo Yu , Junwu Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xiaoxiao Long , Wenping Wang , Li Yuan

Over the last years, 3D morphable models (3DMMs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art methodology for modeling and generating expressive 3D avatars. However, given their reliance on a strict topology, along with their linear nature, they…

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To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

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

Recent advances in diffusion models have made significant progress in digital human generation. However, most existing models still struggle to maintain 3D consistency, temporal coherence, and motion accuracy. A key reason for these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xuan Gao , Jingtao Zhou , Dongyu Liu , Yuqi Zhou , Juyong Zhang

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 present FHAvatar, a novel framework for reconstructing 3D Gaussian avatars with composable face and hair components from an arbitrary number of views. Unlike previous approaches that couple facial and hair representations within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yujie Sun , Zhuoqiang Cai , Chaoyue Niu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv , Fan Wu

Using the latent diffusion model has proven effective in developing novel 3D generation techniques. To harness the latent diffusion model, a key challenge is designing a high-fidelity and efficient representation that links the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Haitao Yang , Yuan Dong , Hanwen Jiang , Dejia Xu , Georgios Pavlakos , Qixing Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting is a recognized method for 3D scene representation, known for its high rendering quality and speed. However, its substantial data requirements present challenges for practical applications. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Soonbin Lee , Fangwen Shu , Yago Sanchez , Thomas Schierl , Cornelius Hellge

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

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

Reconstructing a high-quality, animatable 3D human avatar with expressive facial and hand motions from a single image has gained significant attention due to its broad application potential. 3D human avatar reconstruction typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yang Li , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

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

We present an algorithm that learns a coarse 3D representation of objects from unposed multi-view 2D mask supervision, then uses it to generate detailed mask and image texture. In contrast to existing voxel-based methods for unposed object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Youssef A. Mejjati , Isa Milefchik , Aaron Gokaslan , Oliver Wang , Kwang In Kim , James Tompkin

High-quality reconstruction of controllable 3D head avatars from 2D videos is highly desirable for virtual human applications in movies, games, and telepresence. Neural implicit fields provide a powerful representation to model 3D head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Chuhan Chen , Matthew O'Toole , Gaurav Bharaj , Pablo Garrido

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

Despite much progress, achieving real-time high-fidelity head avatar animation is still difficult and existing methods have to trade-off between speed and quality. 3DMM based methods often fail to model non-facial structures such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhongyuan Zhao , Zhenyu Bao , Qing Li , Guoping Qiu , Kanglin Liu

There is a growing demand for the accessible creation of high-quality 3D avatars that are animatable and customizable. Although 3D morphable models provide intuitive control for editing and animation, and robustness for single-view face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Connor Z. Lin , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Eric R. Chan , Umar Iqbal , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sameh Khamis

The creation of high-fidelity, digital versions of human heads is an important stepping stone in the process of further integrating virtual components into our everyday lives. Constructing such avatars is a challenging research problem, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Simon Giebenhain , Tobias Kirschstein , Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner