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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…

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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…

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We introduce MeshLAM, a feed-forward framework for one-shot animatable mesh head reconstruction that generates high-fidelity, animatable 3D head avatars from a single image. Unlike previous work that relies on time-consuming test-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yisheng He , Steven Hoi

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

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

In this paper, we present a novel 3D head avatar creation approach capable of generalizing from few-shot in-the-wild data with high-fidelity and animatable robustness. Given the underconstrained nature of this problem, incorporating prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaozheng Zheng , Chao Wen , Zhaohu Li , Weiyi Zhang , Zhuo Su , Xu Chang , Yang Zhao , Zheng Lv , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yongjie Zhang , Guidong Wang , Lan Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides an efficient method for high-quality scene reconstruction using anisotropic Gaussians. Recently, 3DGS-based methods have significantly improved the rendering quality of human avatars while enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hongzhe Liao , Chuhua Xian , Hongmin Cai , Haiyang Liu , Fa-Ting Hong

Reconstructing animatable and high-quality 3D head avatars from monocular videos, especially with realistic relighting, is a valuable task. However, the limited information from single-view input, combined with the complex head poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Kangjie Chen , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Controllability, generalizability and efficiency are the major objectives of constructing face avatars represented by neural implicit field. However, existing methods have not managed to accommodate the three requirements simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zhiyuan Ma , Xiangyu Zhu , Guojun Qi , Zhen Lei , Lei Zhang

Head avatar reconstruction, crucial for applications in virtual reality, online meetings, gaming, and film industries, has garnered substantial attention within the computer vision community. The fundamental objective of this field is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xuangeng Chu , Yu Li , Ailing Zeng , Tianyu Yang , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Tatsuya Harada

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

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

In this paper, we explore a reconstruction and reenactment separated framework for 3D Gaussians head, which requires only a single portrait image as input to generate controllable avatar. Specifically, we developed a large-scale one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhiling Ye , Cong Zhou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Weihong Deng , Quan Lu

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

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 propose a novel approach for reconstructing animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from monocular videos captured by commodity devices like smartphones. Photorealistic 3D head avatar reconstruction from such recordings is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jiapeng Tang , Davide Davoli , Tobias Kirschstein , Liam Schoneveld , Matthias Niessner

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Dongbin Zhang , Yunfei Liu , Lijian Lin , Ye Zhu , Yang Li , Minghan Qin , Yu Li , Haoqian Wang

Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

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We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

Recent advances in full-head reconstruction have been obtained by optimizing a neural field through differentiable surface or volume rendering to represent a single scene. While these techniques achieve an unprecedented accuracy, they take…

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