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Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D head avatars is crucial in various applications such as virtual reality. The pioneering methods reconstruct realistic head avatars with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which have been limited by training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Qingpo Wuwu , Xinyi Wang , Xingyu Xiao , Ming Lu

We propose VASA-3D, an audio-driven, single-shot 3D head avatar generator. This research tackles two major challenges: capturing the subtle expression details present in real human faces, and reconstructing an intricate 3D head avatar from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sicheng Xu , Guojun Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Yizhong Zhang , Yu Deng , Steve Lin , Baining Guo

This paper presents a Surface-Aligned Gaussian representation for creating animatable human avatars from monocular videos,aiming at improving the novel view and pose synthesis performance while ensuring fast training and real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ronghan Chen , Yang Cong , Jiayue Liu

Animatable 3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem due to the ambiguity in decoupling geometry, appearance, and deformation. Recent advances in 3D human reconstruction mainly focus on static human modeling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Lingteng Qiu , Xiaodong Gu , Peihao Li , Qi Zuo , Weichao Shen , Junfei Zhang , Kejie Qiu , Weihao Yuan , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo

We study the problem of 3D-aware full-body human generation, aiming at creating animatable human avatars with high-quality textures and geometries. Generally, two challenges remain in this field: i) existing methods struggle to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Xuanmeng Zhang , Jianfeng Zhang , Rohan Chacko , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Yi Yang , Jiashi Feng

Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot, but it remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper, we propose HHAvatar represented by controllable 3D Gaussians for high-fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Zhanfeng Liao , Yuelang Xu , Zhe Li , Qijing Li , Boyao Zhou , Ruifeng Bai , Di Xu , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

We present Reduced Gaussian Blendshapes Avatar (RGBAvatar), a method for reconstructing photorealistic, animatable head avatars at speeds sufficient for on-the-fly reconstruction. Unlike prior approaches that utilize linear bases from 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Linzhou Li , Yumeng Li , Yanlin Weng , Youyi Zheng , Kun Zhou

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

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

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

Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 SeungJun Moon , Hah Min Lew , Seungeun Lee , Ji-Su Kang , Gyeong-Moon Park

Creating and customizing a 3D clothed avatar from textual descriptions is a critical and challenging task. Traditional methods often treat the human body and clothing as inseparable, limiting users' ability to freely mix and match garments.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jia Gong , Shenyu Ji , Lin Geng Foo , Kang Chen , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

By equipping the most recent 3D Gaussian Splatting representation with head 3D morphable models (3DMM), existing methods manage to create head avatars with high fidelity. However, most existing methods only reconstruct a head without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Tianhao Wu , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Jingyi Wan , Fangcheng Zhong , Cengiz Oztireli

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

We present a new approach to creating photorealistic and relightable head avatars from a phone scan with unknown illumination. The reconstructed avatars can be animated and relit in real time with the global illumination of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Junxuan Li , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Rawal Khirodkar , Christian Richardt , Tomas Simon , Yaser Sheikh , Shunsuke Saito

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Gent Serifi , Marcel C. Buehler

Existing 3D clothed avatar reconstruction methods achieve high visual fidelity but ignore geometric structure and physical plausibility. They either model clothed humans as a single deformable surface or attempt garment disentanglement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Daniel Eskandar , Berna Kabadayi , Garvita Tiwari , Gerard Pons-Moll

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

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Kangjie Chen , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang