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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

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

Despite recent progress in 3D Gaussian-based head avatar modeling, efficiently generating high fidelity avatars remains a challenge. Current methods typically rely on extensive multi-view capture setups or monocular videos with per-identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xinya Ji , Sebastian Weiss , Manuel Kansy , Jacek Naruniec , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

Existing approaches for human avatar generation--both NeRF-based and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based--struggle with maintaining 3D consistency and exhibit degraded detail reconstruction, particularly when training with sparse inputs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Chen Yang , Wei Shen

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

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

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

We present LAM, an innovative Large Avatar Model for animatable Gaussian head reconstruction from a single image. Unlike previous methods that require extensive training on captured video sequences or rely on auxiliary neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yisheng He , Xiaodong Gu , Xiaodan Ye , Chao Xu , Zhengyi Zhao , Yuan Dong , Weihao Yuan , Zilong Dong , Liefeng Bo

We present MoGA, a novel method to reconstruct high-fidelity 3D Gaussian avatars from a single-view image. The main challenge lies in inferring unseen appearance and geometric details while ensuring 3D consistency and realism. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zijian Dong , Longteng Duan , Jie Song , Michael J. Black , Andreas Geiger

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

Creating high-quality 3D avatars using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) from a monocular video benefits virtual reality and telecommunication applications. However, existing automatic methods exhibit artifacts under novel poses due to limited…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jotaro Sakamiya , I-Chao Shen , Jinsong Zhang , Mustafa Doga Dogan , Takeo Igarashi

High-fidelity head avatar reconstruction plays a crucial role in AR/VR, gaming, and multimedia content creation. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have demonstrated effectiveness in modeling complex geometry with real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shikun Zhang , Cunjian Chen , Yiqun Wang , Qiuhong Ke , Yong Li

Recent advances in neural radiance fields enable novel view synthesis of photo-realistic images in dynamic settings, which can be applied to scenarios with human animation. Commonly used implicit backbones to establish accurate models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Perez-Pellitero , Yiren Zhou , Zhihao Li , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Inferring full-body poses from Head Mounted Devices, which capture only 3-joint observations from the head and wrists, is a challenging task with wide AR/VR applications. Previous attempts focus on learning one-stage motion mapping and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fangyu Du , Yang Yang , Xuehao Gao , Hongye Hou

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang

We present FastAvatar, a fast and robust algorithm for single-image 3D face reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Given a single input image from an arbitrary pose, FastAvatar recovers a high-quality, full-head 3DGS avatar in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hao Liang , Zhixuan Ge , Soumendu Majee , Ashish Tiwari , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

A photorealistic and immersive human avatar experience demands capturing fine, person-specific details such as cloth and hair dynamics, subtle facial expressions, and characteristic motion patterns. Achieving this requires large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Michael Steiner , Zhang Chen , Alexander Richard , Vasu Agrawal , Markus Steinberger , Michael Zollhöfer

With the advancement of virtual reality, the demand for 3D human avatars is increasing. The emergence of Gaussian Splatting technology has enabled the rendering of Gaussian avatars with superior visual quality and reduced computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiaonuo Dongye , Hanzhi Guo , Le Luo , Haiyan Jiang , Yihua Bao , Jie Guo , Zeyu Tian , Dongdong Weng

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

Personalized 3D avatar editing holds significant promise due to its user-friendliness and availability to applications such as AR/VR and virtual try-ons. Previous studies have explored the feasibility of 3D editing, but often struggle to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Hanxi Liu , Yifang Men , Zhouhui Lian