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Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have unlocked significant potential for modeling 3D head avatars, providing greater flexibility than mesh-based methods and more efficient rendering compared to NeRF-based approaches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Peizhi Yan , Rabab Ward , Qiang Tang , Shan Du

This paper aims to introduce 3D Gaussian for efficient, expressive, and editable digital avatar generation. This task faces two major challenges: (1) The unstructured nature of 3D Gaussian makes it incompatible with current generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Yunhui Liu , Xingdong Sheng , Xiaokang Yang

Creating high-quality animatable 3D human avatars from a single image remains a significant challenge in computer vision due to the inherent difficulty of reconstructing complete 3D information from a single viewpoint. Current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yonwoo Choi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongyu Liu , Xuan Wang , Zijian Wu , Yating Wang , Ziyu Wan , Yue Ma , Runtao Liu , Boyao Zhou , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen

We observe that Gaussians exhibit distinct roles and characteristics analogous to traditional artistic techniques -- like how artists first sketch outlines before filling in broader areas with color, some Gaussians capture high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuang Shi , Géraldine Morin , Simone Gasparini , Wei Tsang Ooi

We present Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars (D3GA), a multi-layered 3D controllable model for human bodies that utilizes 3D Gaussian primitives embedded into tetrahedral cages. The advantage of using cages compared to commonly employed linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Wojciech Zielonka , Timur Bagautdinov , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Justus Thies , Javier Romero

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

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

Creating high-fidelity, animatable 3D talking heads is crucial for immersive applications, yet often hindered by the prevalence of low-quality image or video sources, which yield poor 3D reconstructions. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ding-Jiun Huang , Yuanhao Wang , Shao-Ji Yuan , Albert Mosella-Montoro , Francisco Vicente Carrasco , Cheng Zhang , Fernando De la Torre

Despite significant progress in 3D avatar reconstruction, it still faces challenges such as high time complexity, sensitivity to data quality, and low data utilization. We propose FastAvatar, a feedforward 3D avatar framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yue Wu , Xuanhong Chen , Yufan Wu , Wen Li , Yuxi Lu , Kairui Feng

3D editing plays a crucial role in many areas such as gaming and virtual reality. Traditional 3D editing methods, which rely on representations like meshes and point clouds, often fall short in realistically depicting complex scenes. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yiwen Chen , Zilong Chen , Chi Zhang , Feng Wang , Xiaofeng Yang , Yikai Wang , Zhongang Cai , Lei Yang , Huaping Liu , Guosheng Lin

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

We propose GaussianTalker, a novel framework for real-time generation of pose-controllable talking heads. It leverages the fast rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) while addressing the challenges of directly controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Kyusun Cho , Joungbin Lee , Heeji Yoon , Yeobin Hong , Jaehoon Ko , Sangjun Ahn , Seungryong Kim

Animatable clothing transfer, aiming at dressing and animating garments across characters, is a challenging problem. Most human avatar works entangle the representations of the human body and clothing together, which leads to difficulties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Siyou Lin , Zhe Li , Zhaoqi Su , Zerong Zheng , Hongwen Zhang , Yebin Liu

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

Similar to facial beautification in real life, 3D virtual avatars require personalized customization to enhance their visual appeal, yet this area remains insufficiently explored. Although current 3D Gaussian editing methods can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiming Zhong , Xiaolin Zhang , Ligang Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Recently, text-guided 3D generative methods have made remarkable advancements in producing high-quality textures and geometry, capitalizing on the proliferation of large vision-language and image diffusion models. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xiao Han , Yukang Cao , Kai Han , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

We propose a compositional method for constructing a complete 3D head avatar from a single image. Prior one-shot holistic approaches frequently fail to produce realistic hair dynamics during animation, largely due to inadequate decoupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , WeiLi Zhang , Wenxuan Zhang , Yu Guo , Fei Wang

Photo-realistic human avatars have broad applications, yet high-fidelity avatar generation has traditionally required expensive professional camera rigs and extensive artistic labor. Recent research has enabled constructing them…

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