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Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled fast, photorealistic rendering of dynamic 3D scenes, showing strong potential in immersive communication. However, in digital human encoding and transmission, the compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haocheng Tang , Ruoke Yan , Xinhui Yin , Qi Zhang , Xinfeng Zhang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao , Chuanmin Jia

Gaussian splatting has emerged as a powerful 3D representation that harnesses the advantages of both explicit (mesh) and implicit (NeRF) 3D representations. In this paper, we seek to leverage Gaussian splatting to generate realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Yangyi Huang , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

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

Modeling animatable human avatars from RGB videos is a long-standing and challenging problem. Recent works usually adopt MLP-based neural radiance fields (NeRF) to represent 3D humans, but it remains difficult for pure MLPs to regress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhe Li , Yipengjing Sun , Zerong Zheng , Lizhen Wang , Shengping Zhang , Yebin Liu

We present Instant Skinned Gaussian Avatars, a real-time and cross-platform 3D avatar system. Many approaches have been proposed to animate Gaussian Splatting, but they often require camera arrays, long preprocessing times, or high-end…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Naruya Kondo , Yuto Asano , Yoichi Ochiai

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

Despite much progress, achieving real-time high-fidelity head avatar animation is still difficult and existing methods have to trade-off between speed and quality. 3DMM based methods often fail to model non-facial structures such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhongyuan Zhao , Zhenyu Bao , Qing Li , Guoping Qiu , Kanglin Liu

While there has been significant progress in the field of 3D avatar creation from visual observations, modeling physically plausible dynamics of humans with loose garments remains a challenging problem. Although a few existing works address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Changmin Lee , Jihyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

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

Reconstructing high-fidelity and animatable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging yet essential task. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting typically bind Gaussians to mesh triangles and model deformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jiankuo Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Zidu Wang , Zhen Lei

This paper introduces a novel clothed human model that can be learned from multiview RGB videos, with a particular emphasis on recovering physically accurate body and cloth movements. Our method, Position Based Dynamic Gaussians (PBDyG),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shota Sasaki , Jane Wu , Ko Nishino

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 introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Gent Serifi , Marcel C. Buehler

Real-time rendering of human head avatars is a cornerstone of many computer graphics applications, such as augmented reality, video games, and films, to name a few. Recent approaches address this challenge with computationally efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Kartik Teotia , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Marc Habermann , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Photorealistic and animatable human avatars are a key enabler for virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, and digital entertainment. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved rendering quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Cheng Peng , Jingxiang Sun , Yushuo Chen , Zhaoqi Su , Zhuo Su , Yebin Liu

Real-time rendering of photorealistic and controllable human avatars stands as a cornerstone in Computer Vision and Graphics. While recent advances in neural implicit rendering have unlocked unprecedented photorealism for digital avatars,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haokai Pang , Heming Zhu , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

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

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

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