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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…

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Gaussian-based human avatars have achieved an unprecedented level of visual fidelity. However, existing approaches based on high-capacity neural networks typically require a desktop GPU to achieve real-time performance for a single avatar,…

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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

Rendering photorealistic head avatars from arbitrary viewpoints is crucial for various applications like virtual reality. Although previous methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can achieve impressive results, they lack fidelity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xiaobao Wei , Peng Chen , Ming Lu , Hui Chen , Feng Tian

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

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

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 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

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…

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Existing Gaussian avatar methods typically parameterize geometry on a body-template surface, which entangles the avatar's representation space with the template's deformation space and limits the capture of layered, off-body, and non-rigid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julian Kaltheuner , Jan Spindler , Sina Kitz , Patrick Stotko , Reinhard Klein

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…

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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…

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Neural radiance fields are capable of reconstructing high-quality drivable human avatars but are expensive to train and render and not suitable for multi-human scenes with complex shadows. To reduce consumption, we propose Animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yang Liu , Xiang Huang , Minghan Qin , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

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

By equipping the most recent 3D Gaussian Splatting representation with head 3D morphable models (3DMM), existing methods manage to create head avatars with high fidelity. However, most existing methods only reconstruct a head without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Tianhao Wu , Jing Yang , Zhilin Guo , Jingyi Wan , Fangcheng Zhong , Cengiz Oztireli

We present UIKA, a feed-forward animatable Gaussian head model from an arbitrary number of pose-free inputs, including a single image, multi-view captures, and smartphone-captured videos. Unlike the traditional avatar method, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zijian Wu , Boyao Zhou , Liangxiao Hu , Hongyu Liu , Yuan Sun , Xuan Wang , Xun Cao , Yujun Shen , Hao Zhu

We introduce GaussianSpeech, a novel approach that synthesizes high-fidelity animation sequences of photo-realistic, personalized 3D human head avatars from spoken audio. To capture the expressive, detailed nature of human heads, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Shivangi Aneja , Artem Sevastopolsky , Tobias Kirschstein , Justus Thies , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We present a new approach to creating photorealistic and relightable head avatars from a phone scan with unknown illumination. The reconstructed avatars can be animated and relit in real time with the global illumination of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Junxuan Li , Chen Cao , Gabriel Schwartz , Rawal Khirodkar , Christian Richardt , Tomas Simon , Yaser Sheikh , Shunsuke Saito

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…

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