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Accurately recovering human pose and appearance from video is an essential component of scene reconstruction, with applications to motion capture, motion prediction, virtual reality, and digital twinning. Despite significant interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yeheng Zong , Pou-Chun Kung , Yike Pan , Seth Isaacson , Yizhou Chen , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

We propose GGAvatar, a novel 3D avatar representation designed to robustly model dynamic head avatars with complex identities and deformations. GGAvatar employs a coarse-to-fine structure, featuring two core modules: Neutral Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xinyang Li , Jiaxin Wang , Yixin Xuan , Gongxin Yao , Yu Pan

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D head avatars is crucial in various applications such as virtual reality. The pioneering methods reconstruct realistic head avatars with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), which have been limited by training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Peng Chen , Xiaobao Wei , Qingpo Wuwu , Xinyi Wang , Xingyu Xiao , Ming Lu

Real-time rendering of high-fidelity and animatable avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. Over the past few years, the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has made significant progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qipeng Yan , Mingyang Sun , Lihua Zhang

We present a novel framework for animating humans in 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a neural scene representation that has recently achieved state-of-the-art photorealistic results for novel-view synthesis but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Aymen Mir , Jian Wang , Riza Alp Guler , Chuan Guo , Gerard Pons-Moll , Bing Zhou

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

Generating and editing dynamic 3D head avatars are crucial tasks in virtual reality and film production. However, existing methods often suffer from facial distortions, inaccurate head movements, and limited fine-grained editing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yangyang Qian , Yuan Sun , Yu Guo

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

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev

We present FHAvatar, a novel framework for reconstructing 3D Gaussian avatars with composable face and hair components from an arbitrary number of views. Unlike previous approaches that couple facial and hair representations within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yujie Sun , Zhuoqiang Cai , Chaoyue Niu , Jianchuan Chen , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv , Fan Wu

We introduce an approach that creates animatable human avatars from monocular videos using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Existing methods based on neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve high-quality novel-view/novel-pose image synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zhiyin Qian , Shaofei Wang , Marko Mihajlovic , Andreas Geiger , Siyu Tang

We present SplattingAvatar, a hybrid 3D representation of photorealistic human avatars with Gaussian Splatting embedded on a triangle mesh, which renders over 300 FPS on a modern GPU and 30 FPS on a mobile device. We disentangle the motion…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zhijing Shao , Zhaolong Wang , Zhuang Li , Duotun Wang , Xiangru Lin , Yu Zhang , Mingming Fan , Zeyu Wang

We present HAHA - a novel approach for animatable human avatar generation from monocular input videos. The proposed method relies on learning the trade-off between the use of Gaussian splatting and a textured mesh for efficient and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 David Svitov , Pietro Morerio , Lourdes Agapito , Alessio Del Bue

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

Despite recent progress in 3D head avatar generation, balancing identity preservation, i.e., reconstruction, with novel poses and expressions, i.e., animation, remains a challenge. Existing methods struggle to adapt Gaussians to varying…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 SeungJun Moon , Hah Min Lew , Seungeun Lee , Ji-Su Kang , Gyeong-Moon Park

Photorealistic avatars have become essential for immersive applications in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), enabling lifelike interactions in areas such as training simulations, telemedicine, and virtual collaboration. These…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Rendong Zhang , Alexandra Watkins , Nilanjan Sarkar

Recent advancements in Gaussian-based human body reconstruction have achieved notable success in creating animatable avatars. However, there are ongoing challenges to fully exploit the SMPL model's prior knowledge and enhance the visual…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Mengtian Li , Shengxiang Yao , Chen Kai , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Realistic 3D full-body talking avatars hold great potential in AR, with applications ranging from e-commerce live streaming to holographic communication. Despite advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for lifelike avatar creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jianchuan Chen , Jingchuan Hu , Gaige Wang , Zhonghua Jiang , Tiansong Zhou , Zhiwen Chen , Chengfei Lv