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Constructing drivable and photorealistic 3D head avatars has become a central task in AR/XR, enabling immersive and expressive user experiences. With the emergence of high-fidelity and efficient representations such as 3D Gaussians, recent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jaeseong Lee , Junyeong Ahn , Taewoong Kang , Jaegul Choo

Reconstructing high-fidelity animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging due to insufficient geometric information in single-view observations. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jinlong Fan , Bingyu Hu , Xingguang Li , Yuxiang Yang , Jing Zhang

Recent advances in neural radiance fields enable novel view synthesis of photo-realistic images in dynamic settings, which can be applied to scenarios with human animation. Commonly used implicit backbones to establish accurate models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero , Yiren Zhou , Zhihao Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

High-fidelity digital human representations are increasingly in demand in the digital world, particularly for interactive telepresence, AR/VR, 3D graphics, and the rapidly evolving metaverse. Even though they work well in small spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Zexu Huang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Siying Lu , Mingming Gong

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

The emergence of neural rendering has significantly advanced the rendering quality of 3D human avatars, with the recently popular 3DGS technique enabling real-time performance. However, SMPL-driven 3DGS human avatars still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wangze Xu , Yifan Zhan , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun

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 propose a novel framework for decomposing arbitrarily posed humans into animatable multi-layered 3D human avatars, separating the body and garments. Conventional single-layer reconstruction methods lock clothing to one identity, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yinghan Xu , John Dingliana

With the booming of virtual reality (VR) technology, there is a growing need for customized 3D avatars. However, traditional methods for 3D avatar modeling are either time-consuming or fail to retain similarity to the person being modeled.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Chuanyu Pan , Guowei Yang , Taijiang Mu , Yu-Kun Lai

Reconstructing 3D clothed human avatars from single images is a challenging task, especially when encountering complex poses and loose clothing. Current methods exhibit limitations in performance, largely attributable to their dependence on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zechuan Zhang , Li Sun , Zongxin Yang , Ling Chen , Yi Yang

This paper proposes an efficient 3D avatar coding framework that leverages compact human priors and canonical-to-target transformation to enable high-quality 3D human avatar video compression at ultra-low bit rates. The framework begins by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Shanzhi Yin , Bolin Chen , Xinju Wu , Ru-Ling Liao , Jie Chen , Shiqi Wang , Yan Ye

Animating human face images aims to synthesize a desired source identity in a natural-looking way mimicking a driving video's facial movements. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks have demonstrated remarkable potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Alireza Javanmardi , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Creating realistic avatars from a single RGB image is an attractive yet challenging problem. Due to its ill-posed nature, recent works leverage powerful prior from 2D diffusion models pretrained on large datasets. Although 2D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yuxuan Xue , Xianghui Xie , Riccardo Marin , Gerard Pons-Moll

Reconstructing photorealistic and animatable 4D head avatars from a single portrait image remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. While diffusion models have enabled remarkable progress in image and video generation for avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Chao Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , Xiang Deng , Jingxiang Sun , Donglin Di , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

We present Better Together, a method that simultaneously solves the human pose estimation problem while reconstructing a photorealistic 3D human avatar from multi-view videos. While prior art usually solves these problems separately, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Arthur Moreau , Mohammed Brahimi , Richard Shaw , Athanasios Papaioannou , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiawei Zhang , Lei Chu , Jiahao Li , Zhenyu Zang , Chong Li , Xiao Li , Xun Cao , Hao Zhu , Yan Lu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Anton Zubekhin , Heming Zhu , Paulo Gotardo , Thabo Beeler , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Avatar modelling has broad applications in human animation and virtual try-ons. Recent advancements in this field have focused on high-quality and comprehensive human reconstruction but often overlook the separation of clothing from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jingxuan Chen

We introduce a novel framework for modeling high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars from motion-blurred monocular video inputs. Motion blur is prevalent in real-world dynamic video capture, especially due to human movements in 3D human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xianrui Luo , Juewen Peng , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Fan Yang , Zhiguo Cao , Guosheng Lin

Realistic digital avatars require expressive and dynamic hair motion; however, most existing head avatar methods assume rigid hair movement. These methods often fail to disentangle hair from the head, representing it as a simple outer shell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Berna Kabadayi , Vanessa Sklyarova , Wojciech Zielonka , Justus Thies , Gerard Pons-Moll