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The generation of high-quality, animatable 3D head avatars from text has enormous potential in content creation applications such as games, movies, and embodied virtual assistants. Current text-to-3D generation methods typically combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yiqian Wu , Malte Prinzler , Xiaogang Jin , Siyu Tang

Talking Head Generation aims at synthesizing natural-looking talking videos from speech and a single portrait image. Previous 3D talking head generation methods have relied on domain-specific heuristics such as warping-based facial motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Shi , Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Nicolas Pugeault , Paul Henderson

We present SynShot, a novel method for the few-shot inversion of a drivable head avatar based on a synthetic prior. We tackle three major challenges. First, training a controllable 3D generative network requires a large number of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wojciech Zielonka , Stephan J. Garbin , Alexandros Lattas , George Kopanas , Paulo Gotardo , Thabo Beeler , Justus Thies , Timo Bolkart

Traditional 3D morphable face models (3DMMs) provide fine-grained control over expression but cannot easily capture geometric and appearance details. Neural volumetric representations approach photorealism but are hard to animate and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Yufeng Zheng , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marcel C. Bühler , Xu Chen , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Inspired by the effectiveness of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in reconstructing detailed 3D scenes within multi-view setups and the emergence of large 2D human foundation models, we introduce Arc2Avatar, the first SDS-based method utilizing…

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To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Existing methods for image-to-3D avatar generation struggle to produce highly detailed, animation-ready avatars suitable for real-world applications. We introduce AdaHuman, a novel framework that generates high-fidelity animatable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yangyi Huang , Ye Yuan , Xueting Li , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

The creation of 3D human face avatars from a single unconstrained image is a fundamental task that underlies numerous real-world vision and graphics applications. Despite the significant progress made in generative models, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenqing Wang , Haosen Yang , Josef Kittler , Xiatian Zhu

We present a unified framework for reconstructing animatable 3D human avatars from a single portrait across head, half-body, and full-body inputs. Our method tackles three bottlenecks: pose- and framing-sensitive feature representations,…

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Most of the existing audio-driven 3D facial animation methods suffered from the lack of detailed facial expression and head pose, resulting in unsatisfactory experience of human-robot interaction. In this paper, a novel pose-controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Bin Liu , Xiaolin Wei , Bo Li , Junjie Cao , Yu-Kun Lai

Generating high-fidelity real-time animated sequences of photorealistic 3D head avatars is important for many graphics applications, including immersive telepresence and movies. This is a challenging problem particularly when rendering…

Reconstructing photorealistic and topology-aware human avatars from monocular videos remains a significant challenge in the fields of computer vision and graphics. While existing 3D human avatar modeling approaches can effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuze Su , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Liang Wang

Reconstructing 3D human heads in low-view settings presents technical challenges, mainly due to the pronounced risk of overfitting with limited views and high-frequency signals. To address this, we propose geometry decomposition and adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Baixin Xu , Jiarui Zhang , Kwan-Yee Lin , Chen Qian , Ying He

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled the previously unfeasible capability of generating 3D assets from a single input image or a text prompt. In this work, we aim to enhance the quality and functionality of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xiyi Chen , Marko Mihajlovic , Shaofei Wang , Sergey Prokudin , Siyu Tang

Generating high-fidelity 3D head avatars from a single image is challenging, as current methods lack fine-grained, intuitive control over expressions via text. This paper proposes SIE3D, a framework that generates expressive 3D avatars from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zhiqi Huang , Dulongkai Cui , Jinglu Hu

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

Portrait animation has witnessed tremendous quality improvements thanks to recent advances in video diffusion models. However, these 2D methods often compromise 3D consistency and speed, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Kaiwen Jiang , Xueting Li , Seonwook Park , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano

3D human reconstruction from a single image is a challenging problem and has been exclusively studied in the literature. Recently, some methods have resorted to diffusion models for guidance, optimizing a 3D representation via Score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Ying Feng , Qi Zhang , Jianbo Jiao , Yang Zhao , Zhihao Liang , Huachen Gao , Ronggang Wang