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 knowledge is essential. Therefore, we propose a framework comprising prior learning and avatar creation phases. The prior learning phase leverages 3D head priors derived from a large-scale multi-view dynamic dataset, and the avatar creation phase applies these priors for few-shot personalization. Our approach effectively captures these priors by utilizing a Gaussian Splatting-based auto-decoder network with part-based dynamic modeling. Our method employs identity-shared encoding with personalized latent codes for individual identities to learn the attributes of Gaussian primitives. During the avatar creation phase, we achieve fast head avatar personalization by leveraging inversion and fine-tuning strategies. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model effectively exploits head priors and successfully generalizes them to few-shot personalization, achieving photo-realistic rendering quality, multi-view consistency, and stable animation.
AvatarBack: Back-Head Generation for Complete 3D Avatars from Front-View Images
College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shandong University of Science and Technology(山东科技大学电气工程与自动化学院);Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Auckland University of Technology(奥克兰大学数据科学与人工智能系);College of Computer Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology(山东科技大学计算机科学与工程学院)
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所)
We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic neural radiance field based on neural graphics primitives embedded around a parametric face model. Our pipeline is trained on a single monocular RGB portrait video that observes the subject under different expressions and views. While state-of-the-art methods take up to several days to train an avatar, our method can reconstruct a digital avatar in less than 10 minutes on modern GPU hardware, which is orders of magnitude faster than pre…
HRAvatar: High-Quality and Relightable Gaussian Head Avatar
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院,清华大学);International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) Intern(国际数字经济发展学院(IDEA)实习生)
Generating Editable Head Avatars with 3D Gaussian GANs
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学计算机科学与工程学院);School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学人工智能学院);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室)
MixedGaussianAvatar: Realistically and Geometrically Accurate Head Avatar via Mixed 2D-3D Gaussians
University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Peking University(北京大学);Nankai University(南开大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Intel Labs China(英特尔中国实验室)
ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院);Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);Max Planck Institute for Informatics(马克斯·普朗克信息研究所);Tübingen AI Center(图宾根人工智能中心);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Microsoft(微软)
STAvatar: Soft Binding and Temporal Density Control for Monocular 3D Head Avatars Reconstruction
MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(自动化研究所,中国科学院);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);CAIR, HKISI, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);SCSE, FIE, M.U.S.T(M.U.S.T)
SEGA: Drivable 3D Gaussian Head Avatar from a Single Image
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);ByteDance(字节跳动);Pengcheng Lab(鹏城实验室);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University(清华大学自动化系)
Hybrid Explicit Representation for Ultra-Realistic Head Avatars
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);University of Hong Kong(香港大学)
DEGAS: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Prometheus Vision Technology Co., Ltd.(天视智能科技有限公司);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Swinburne University of Technology(斯威本科技大学)