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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

The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muyao Niu , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Zhuoxiao Li , Wei Wang , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

We introduce a novel approach to creating ultra-realistic head avatars and rendering them in real-time (>30fps at $2048 \times 1334$ resolution). First, we propose a hybrid explicit representation that combines the advantages of two…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Hongrui Cai , Yuting Xiao , Xuan Wang , Jiafei Li , Yudong Guo , Yanbo Fan , Shenghua Gao , Juyong Zhang

Existing methods like Neural Radiation Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made significant strides in facial attribute control such as facial animation and components editing, yet they struggle with fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Pinxin Liu , Luchuan Song , Daoan Zhang , Hang Hua , Yunlong Tang , Huaijin Tu , Jiebo Luo , Chenliang Xu

This paper presents EGSTalker, a real-time audio-driven talking head generation framework based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Designed to enhance both speed and visual fidelity, EGSTalker requires only 3-5 minutes of training video to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tianheng Zhu , Yinfeng Yu , Liejun Wang , Fuchun Sun , Wendong Zheng

Creating photorealistic 3D head avatars from limited input has become increasingly important for applications in virtual reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances like neural rendering and 3D Gaussian splatting…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Chen Guo , Zhuo Su , Liao Wang , Jian Wang , Shuang Li , Xu Chang , Zhaohu Li , Yang Zhao , Guidong Wang , Yebin Liu , Ruqi Huang

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

In this paper, we present a novel 3D head avatar creation approach capable of generalizing from few-shot in-the-wild data with high-fidelity and animatable robustness. Given the underconstrained nature of this problem, incorporating prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaozheng Zheng , Chao Wen , Zhaohu Li , Weiyi Zhang , Zhuo Su , Xu Chang , Yang Zhao , Zheng Lv , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yongjie Zhang , Guidong Wang , Lan Xu

Most current audio-driven facial animation research primarily focuses on generating videos with neutral emotions. While some studies have addressed the generation of facial videos driven by emotional audio, efficiently generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chuhang Ma , Shuai Tan , Ye Pan , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

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

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

With recent advancements in neural rendering and motion capture algorithms, remarkable progress has been made in photorealistic human avatar modeling, unlocking immense potential for applications in virtual reality, augmented reality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hendrik Junkawitsch , Guoxing Sun , Heming Zhu , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

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

Template-free animatable head avatars can achieve high visual fidelity by learning expression-dependent facial deformation directly from a subject's capture, avoiding parametric face templates and hand-designed blendshape spaces. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Matan Levy , Gavriel Habib , Issar Tzachor , Dvir Samuel , Rami Ben-Ari , Nir Darshan , Or Litany , Dani Lischinski

Realistic animatable human avatars from monocular videos are crucial for advancing human-robot interaction and enhancing immersive virtual experiences. While recent research on 3DGS-based human avatars has made progress, it still struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangan Jiang , Tianzi Zhang , Dong Li , Zhenjun Zhao , Haoang Li , Mingrui Li , Hongyu Wang

In practical real-time XR and telepresence applications, network and computing resources fluctuate frequently. Therefore, a progressive 3D representation is needed. To this end, we propose ProgressiveAvatars, a progressive avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Kaiwen Song , Jinkai Cui , Juyong Zhang

In this paper, we propose to create animatable avatars for interacting hands with 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS) and single-image inputs. Existing GS-based methods designed for single subjects often yield unsatisfactory results due to limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xuan Huang , Hanhui Li , Wanquan Liu , Xiaodan Liang , Yiqiang Yan , Yuhao Cheng , Chengqiang Gao

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

Real-time, high-fidelity 3D human reconstruction from RGB images is essential for interactive applications such as virtual reality and gaming, yet remains challenging due to the complex non-rigid deformations of dynamic human bodies.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yang Liu , Zhiyong Zhang

The ability to animate photo-realistic head avatars reconstructed from monocular portrait video sequences represents a crucial step in bridging the gap between the virtual and real worlds. Recent advancements in head avatar techniques,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yufan Chen , Lizhen Wang , Qijing Li , Hongjiang Xiao , Shengping Zhang , Hongxun Yao , Yebin Liu