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Existing approaches for human avatar generation--both NeRF-based and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based--struggle with maintaining 3D consistency and exhibit degraded detail reconstruction, particularly when training with sparse inputs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Chen Yang , Wei Shen

We introduce Dream, Lift, Animate (DLA), a novel framework that reconstructs animatable 3D human avatars from a single image. This is achieved by leveraging multi-view generation, 3D Gaussian lifting, and pose-aware UV-space mapping of 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marcel C. Bühler , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Koki Nagano , Umar Iqbal

We present Gaussian Pixel Codec Avatars (GPiCA), photorealistic head avatars that can be generated from multi-view images and efficiently rendered on mobile devices. GPiCA utilizes a unique hybrid representation that combines a triangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Divam Gupta , Anuj Pahuja , Nemanja Bartolovic , Tomas Simon , Forrest Iandola , Giljoo Nam

This paper proposes an approach to learn generic multi-modal mesh surface representations using a novel scheme for fusing texture and geometric data. Our approach defines an inverse mapping between different geometric descriptors computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bilal Taha , Munawar Hayat , Stefano Berretti , Naoufel Werghi

3D Gaussian Splatting has made a marked impact on neural rendering by achieving impressive fidelity and performance. Despite this achievement, however, it is not readily applicable to developing interactive applications. Real-time…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xiangzhi Eric Wang , Zackary P. T. Sin

Leveraging pretrained 2D diffusion models and score distillation sampling (SDS), recent methods have shown promising results for text-to-3D avatar generation. However, generating high-quality 3D avatars capable of expressive animation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yukun Huang , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Zheng-Jun Zha , Lei Zhang , Xihui Liu

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

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Forrest Iandola , Stanislav Pidhorskyi , Igor Santesteban , Divam Gupta , Anuj Pahuja , Nemanja Bartolovic , Frank Yu , Emanuel Garbin , Tomas Simon , Shunsuke Saito

Modeling relightable and animatable human avatars from monocular video is a long-standing and challenging task. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have been employed to reconstruct the avatars.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Seonghwa Choi , Moonkyeong Choi , Mingyu Jang , Jaekyung Kim , Jianfei Cai , Wen-Huang Cheng , Sanghoon Lee

Recently, implicit neural representation has been widely used to generate animatable human avatars. However, the materials and geometry of those representations are coupled in the neural network and hard to edit, which hinders their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Qifeng Chen , Rengan Xie , Kai Huang , Qi Wang , Wenting Zheng , Rong Li , Yuchi Huo

We introduce GaussianSwap, a novel video face swapping framework that constructs a 3D Gaussian Splatting based face avatar from a target video while transferring identity from a source image to the avatar. Conventional video swapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xuan Cheng , Jiahao Rao , Chengyang Li , Wenhao Wang , Weilin Chen , Lvqing Yang

Gaussian splatting, renowned for its exceptional rendering quality and efficiency, has emerged as a prominent technique in 3D scene representation. However, the substantial data volume of Gaussian splatting impedes its practical utility in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xiangrui Liu , Xinju Wu , Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Zhu Li , Sam Kwong

Recent advances in Gaussian Splatting have significantly boosted the reconstruction of head avatars, enabling high-quality facial modeling by representing an 3D avatar as a collection of 3D Gaussians. However, existing methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Shiqi Xin , Xiaolin Zhang , Yanbin Liu , Peng Zhang , Caifeng Shan

Reconstructing high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from effortlessly captured monocular videos is a pivotal yet formidable challenge. Although significant progress has been made in rendering performance and manipulation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Jiawei Zhang , Zijian Wu , Zhiyang Liang , Yicheng Gong , Dongfang Hu , Yao Yao , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu

3D Gaussian splats have emerged as a revolutionary, effective, learned representation for static 3D scenes. In this work, we explore using 2D Gaussian splats as a new primitive for representing videos. We propose GSVC, an approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Longan Wang , Yuang Shi , Wei Tsang Ooi

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

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

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

In this paper, we propose to create animatable avatars for interacting hands with 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and single-image inputs. Existing GS-based methods designed for single subjects often yield unsatisfactory results due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuan Huang , Hanhui Li , Wanquan Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yiqiang Yan , Yuhao Cheng , Chengqiang Gao

Traditional explicit 3D representations, such as point clouds and meshes, demand significant storage to capture fine geometric details and require complex indexing systems for surface lookups, making functional representations an efficient,…

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