English
Related papers

Related papers: EAvatar: Expression-Aware Head Avatar Reconstructi…

200 papers

Generating high-fidelity real-time animated sequences of photorealistic 3D head avatars is important for many graphics applications, including immersive telepresence and movies. This is a challenging problem particularly when rendering…

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

A photorealistic and controllable 3D caricaturization framework for faces is introduced. We start with an intrinsic Gaussian curvature-based surface exaggeration technique, which, when coupled with texture, tends to produce over-smoothed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eldad Matmon , Amit Bracha , Noam Rotstein , Ron Kimmel

Digital humans and, especially, 3D facial avatars have raised a lot of attention in the past years, as they are the backbone of several applications like immersive telepresence in AR or VR. Despite the progress, facial avatars reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Berna Kabadayi , Wojciech Zielonka , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll , Justus Thies

Creating high-fidelity 3D human head avatars is crucial for applications in VR/AR, digital human, and film production. Recent advances have leveraged morphable face models to generate animated head avatars from easily accessible data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yuelang Xu , Zhaoqi Su , Qingyao Wu , Yebin Liu

We propose FlashAvatar, a novel and lightweight 3D animatable avatar representation that could reconstruct a digital avatar from a short monocular video sequence in minutes and render high-fidelity photo-realistic images at 300FPS on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Jun Xiang , Xuan Gao , Yudong Guo , Juyong Zhang

Constructing vivid 3D head avatars for given subjects and realizing a series of animations on them is valuable yet challenging. This paper presents GaussianHead, which models the actional human head with anisotropic 3D Gaussians. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jie Wang , Jiu-Cheng Xie , Xianyan Li , Feng Xu , Chi-Man Pun , Hao Gao

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

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

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

The generation of high-fidelity, animatable 3D human avatars remains a core challenge in computer graphics and vision, with applications in VR, telepresence, and entertainment. Existing approaches based on implicit representations like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ramazan Fazylov , Sergey Zagoruyko , Aleksandr Parkin , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis , Ivan Laptev

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

Building 3D animatable head avatars from a single image is an important yet challenging problem. Existing methods generally collapse under large camera pose variations, compromising the realism of 3D avatars. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuling Zhao , Dan Xu

While high fidelity and efficiency are central to the creation of digital head avatars, recent methods relying on 2D or 3D generative models often experience limitations such as shape distortion, expression inaccuracy, and identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiaochen Zhao , Jingxiang Sun , Lizhen Wang , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Recently, we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However, due to the diversity of frameworks, there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Bao , Yinda Zhang , Yuan Li , Xiyu Zhang , Bangbang Yang , Hujun Bao , Marc Pollefeys , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Current text-to-avatar methods often rely on implicit representations (e.g., NeRF, SDF, and DMTet), leading to 3D content that artists cannot easily edit and animate in graphics software. This paper introduces a novel framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Duotun Wang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Zhijing Shao , Qianxi Liu , Lin Wang , Mingming Fan , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

Reconstructing a high-quality, animatable 3D human avatar with expressive facial and hand motions from a single image has gained significant attention due to its broad application potential. 3D human avatar reconstruction typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yang Li , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

We present a novel approach for enhancing the resolution and geometric fidelity of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) beyond native training resolution. Current 3DGS methods are fundamentally limited by their input resolution, producing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shuja Khalid , Mohamed Ibrahim , Yang Liu

Recent years have witnessed the rapid emergence of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) as a powerful approach for 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Its explicit representation with Gaussian primitives enables fast training, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haato Watanabe , Nobuyuki Umetani