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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…

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3D-aware generative adversarial networks (GANs) synthesize high-fidelity and multi-view-consistent facial images using only collections of single-view 2D imagery. Towards fine-grained control over facial attributes, recent efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jingxiang Sun , Xuan Wang , Lizhen Wang , Xiaoyu Li , Yong Zhang , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

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We introduce AvatarPointillist, a novel framework for generating dynamic 4D Gaussian avatars from a single portrait image. At the core of our method is a decoder-only Transformer that autoregressively generates a point cloud for 3D Gaussian…

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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

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 RMAvatar, a novel human avatar representation with Gaussian splatting embedded on mesh to learn clothed avatar from a monocular video. We utilize the explicit mesh geometry to represent motion and shape of a virtual human and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sen Peng , Weixing Xie , Zilong Wang , Xiaohu Guo , Zhonggui Chen , Baorong Yang , Xiao Dong

Audio-driven talking head generation is a core component of digital avatars, and 3D Gaussian Splatting has shown strong performance in real-time rendering of high-fidelity talking heads. However, achieving precise control over fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shaoyang Xie , Xiaofeng Cong , Baosheng Yu , Zhipeng Gui , Jie Gui , Yuan Yan Tang , James Tin-Yau Kwok

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized 3D scene representation with superior efficiency and quality. While recent adaptations for computed tomography (CT) show promise, they struggle with severe artifacts under highly sparse-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuxiang Zhong , Jun Wei , Chaoqi Chen , Senyou An , Hui Huang

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

Neural implicit representations, including Neural Distance Fields and Neural Radiance Fields, have demonstrated significant capabilities for reconstructing surfaces with complicated geometry and topology, and generating novel views of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Lin Gao , Jie Yang , Bo-Tao Zhang , Jia-Mu Sun , Yu-Jie Yuan , Hongbo Fu , Yu-Kun Lai

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

Modern 3D-GANs synthesize geometry and texture by training on large-scale datasets with a consistent structure. Training such models on stylized, artistic data, with often unknown, highly variable geometry, and camera information has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Rameen Abdal , Hsin-Ying Lee , Peihao Zhu , Menglei Chai , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Peter Wonka , Sergey Tulyakov

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is an innovative rendering technique that surpasses the neural radiance field (NeRF) in both rendering speed and visual quality by leveraging an explicit 3D scene representation. Existing 3DGS approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Lintao Xiang , Hongpei Zheng , Yating Huang , Qijun Yang , Hujun Yin

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Powered by large-scale text-to-image generation models, text-to-3D avatar generation has made promising progress. However, most methods fail to produce photorealistic results, limited by imprecise geometry and low-quality appearance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuanyou Xu , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Nuanced expressiveness, particularly through fine-grained hand and facial expressions, is pivotal for enhancing the realism and vitality of digital human representations. In this work, we focus on investigating the expressiveness of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Hezhen Hu , Zhiwen Fan , Tianhao Wu , Yihan Xi , Seoyoung Lee , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has achieved great success in reconstructing and rendering real-world scenes. To transfer the high rendering quality to generation tasks, a series of research works attempt to generate 3D-Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Taoran Yi , Jiemin Fang , Zanwei Zhou , Junjie Wang , Guanjun Wu , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang , Qi Tian

Hairstyle reflects culture and ethnicity at first glance. In the digital era, various realistic human hairstyles are also critical to high-fidelity digital human assets for beauty and inclusivity. Yet, realistic hair modeling and real-time…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Haimin Luo , Min Ouyang , Zijun Zhao , Suyi Jiang , Longwen Zhang , Qixuan Zhang , Wei Yang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…