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GPAvatar: Generalizable and Precise Head Avatar from Image(s)

arXiv 2401.10215 ↗First posted 18 Jan 2024cs.CVcited by 74

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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 faithfully recreate the head avatar and precisely control expressions and postures. Existing methods, categorized into 2D-based warping, mesh-based, and neural rendering approaches, present challenges in maintaining multi-view consistency, incorporating non-facial information, and generalizing to new identities. In this paper, we propose a framework named GPAvatar that reconstructs 3D head avatars from one or several images in a single forward pass. The key idea of this work is to introduce a dynamic point-based expression field driven by a point cloud to precisely and effectively capture expressions. Furthermore, we use a Multi Tri-planes Attention (MTA) fusion module in the tri-planes canonical field to leverage information from multiple input images. The proposed method achieves faithful identity reconstruction, precise expression control, and multi-view consistency, demonstrating promising results for free-viewpoint rendering and novel view synthesis.

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  16. 2020Fast Bi-layer Neural Synthesis of One-Shot Realistic Head Avatarscited by 116
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  1. 2024Generalizable and Animatable Gaussian Head Avatarcited by 95
  2. 2024Portrait4D-v2: Pseudo Multi-View Data Creates Better 4D Head Synthesizercited by 64
  3. 2025Avat3r: Large Animatable Gaussian Reconstruction Model for High-fidelity 3D Head Avatarscited by 52
  4. 2024HeadGAP: Few-Shot 3D Head Avatar via Generalizable Gaussian Priorscited by 44
  5. 2025LAM: Large Avatar Model for One-shot Animatable Gaussian Headcited by 43
  6. 2025ARTalk: Speech-Driven 3D Head Animation via Autoregressive Modelcited by 28
  7. 2025HRAvatar: High-Quality and Relightable Gaussian Head Avatarcited by 24
  8. 2025GUAVA: Generalizable Upper Body 3D Gaussian Avatarcited by 22
  9. 2024VOODOO XP: Expressive One-Shot Head Reenactment for VR Telepresencecited by 19
  10. 2024MimicTalk: Mimicking a personalized and expressive 3D talking face in minutescited by 16
  11. 2025AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarizationcited by 15
  12. 2025SEGA: Drivable 3D Gaussian Head Avatar from a Single Imagecited by 11
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  1. 2024Gaussian Deja-vu: Creating Controllable 3D Gaussian Head-Avatars with Enhanced Generalization and Personalization Abilitiescited by 10
  2. 2025Monocular and Generalizable Gaussian Talking Head Animationcited by 10
  3. 2025UniLS: End-to-End Audio-Driven Avatars for Unified Listening and Speakingcited by 10
  4. 2025FlexAvatar: Learning Complete 3D Head Avatars with Partial Supervisioncited by 10
  5. 2025Zero-1-to-A: Zero-Shot One Image to Animatable Head Avatars Using Video Diffusioncited by 9
  6. 2025SyncTalk++: High-Fidelity and Efficient Synchronized Talking Heads Synthesis Using Gaussian Splattingcited by 9
  7. 2024DH-FaceVid-1K: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Face Video Generationcited by 8
  8. 2025FastAvatar: Instant 3D Gaussian Splatting for Faces from Single Unconstrained Posescited by 7
  9. 2025PanoLAM: Large Avatar Model for Gaussian Full-Head Synthesis from One-shot Unposed Imagecited by 7
  10. 2025FastAvatar: Towards Unified and Fast 3D Avatar Reconstruction with Large Gaussian Reconstruction Transformerscited by 6
  11. 2025FaceCraft4D: Animated 3D Facial Avatar Generation from a Single Imagecited by 5
  12. 2026UIKA: Fast Universal Head Avatar from Pose-Free Imagescited by 5
  13. 2025GHOST 2.0: generative high-fidelity one shot transfer of headscited by 4
  14. 2026FastGHA: Generalized Few-Shot 3D Gaussian Head Avatars with Real-Time Animationcited by 4
  15. 2024Coherent 3D Portrait Video Reconstruction via Triplane Fusioncited by 3
  16. 2025Controlling Avatar Diffusion with Learnable Gaussian Embeddingcited by 3
  17. 2025VASA-3D: Lifelike Audio-Driven Gaussian Head Avatars from a Single Imagecited by 3
  18. 2025Text-based Animatable 3D Avatars with Morphable Model Alignmentcited by 2
  19. 2025Total-Editing: Head Avatar with Editable Appearance, Motion, and Lightingcited by 2
  20. 2025FlexAvatar: Flexible Large Reconstruction Model for Animatable Gaussian Head Avatars with Detailed Deformationcited by 2
  21. 2025Mask-Free Audio-driven Talking Face Generation for Enhanced Visual Quality and Identity Preservationcited by 1
  22. 2026From Blurry to Believable: Enhancing Low-quality Talking Heads with 3D Generative Priorscited by 1
  23. 2026OMG-Avatar: One-shot Multi-LOD Gaussian Head Avatarcited by 1
  24. 2026Feed-forward Gaussian Registration for Head Avatar Creation and Editingcited by 1
  25. 2026AvatarPointillist: AutoRegressive 4D Gaussian Avatarizationcited by 1
  26. 2026Any3DAvatar: Fast and High-Quality Full-Head 3D Avatar Reconstruction from Single Portrait Imagecited by 1
  27. 2026MeshLAM: Feed-Forward One-Shot Animatable Textured Mesh Avatar Reconstructioncited by 1
  28. 2026FFAvatar: Few-Shot, Feed-Forward, and Generalizable Avatar Reconstructioncited by 1
  29. 2026Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars 'without' Multi-view Generationcited by 1
  30. 2026FreqFLD: Towards All-in-One Facial Landmark Detection via Frequency Modulationcited by 1
  31. 2024TimeWalker: Personalized Neural Space for Lifelong Head Avatarscited by 0
  32. 2024Coherent3D: Coherent 3D Portrait Video Reconstruction via Triplane Fusioncited by 0
  33. 2025High-Quality 3D Head Reconstruction from Any Single Portrait Imagecited by 0
  34. 2025Low-Rank Head Avatar Personalization with Registerscited by 0
  35. 2025Reconstruction and Reenactment Separated Method for Realistic Gaussian Headcited by 0
  36. 2025SIE3D: Single-Image Expressive 3D Avatar Generation via Semantic Embedding and Perceptual Expression Losscited by 0
  37. 2025TurboPortrait3D: Single-step diffusion-based fast portrait novel-view synthesiscited by 0
  38. 2025Instant Expressive Gaussian Head Avatars at Over 100 FPScited by 0

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