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Avatars

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Keywords: human, avatars, head, avatar, facial

Key facts. Avatars: 473 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 19 Oct 2026). 110 of its 473 mapped papers (23%) cite “Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies” (2021, arXiv 2105.02872). 1 new paper 1 Oct–19 Oct.

What’s new

1 Oct – 19 Oct 2026

1 new since 1 Oct

  1. EGGHead: Efficient Generalizable Gaussian Heads from a Single Image

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies2021cited by 110 here
  2. A-NeRF: Articulated Neural Radiance Fields for Learning Human Shape, Appearance, and Pose2021cited by 83 here
  3. NeuMan: Neural Human Radiance Field from a Single Video2022cited by 77 here
  4. 3DGS-Avatar: Animatable Avatars via Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting2023cited by 67 here
  5. AD-NeRF: Audio Driven Neural Radiance Fields for Talking Head Synthesis2021cited by 64 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 43 here
  2. 2021HyperNeRF: A Higher-Dimensional Representation for Topologically Varying Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 61 here
  3. 2022TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fieldscited by 44 here
  4. 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 217 here
  5. 2023Dynamic 3D Gaussians: Tracking by Persistent Dynamic View Synthesiscited by 42 here
  6. 20234D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Renderingcited by 47 here
  7. 2023HUGS: Human Gaussian Splatscited by 52 here
  8. 2023GauHuman: Articulated Gaussian Splatting from Monocular Human Videoscited by 62 here
  9. 20233DGS-Avatar: Animatable Avatars via Deformable 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 67 here
15 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2021A-NeRF: Articulated Neural Radiance Fields for Learning Human Shape, Appearance, and Posecited by 83 here
  2. 2021Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Renderingcited by 42 here
  3. 2021AD-NeRF: Audio Driven Neural Radiance Fields for Talking Head Synthesiscited by 64 here
  4. 2021PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 39 here
  5. 2021Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodiescited by 110 here
  6. 2021NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstructioncited by 59 here
  7. 2021Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videoscited by 41 here
  8. 2021Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Renderingcited by 62 here
  9. 2021H-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Rendering and Temporal Reconstruction of Humans in Motioncited by 53 here
  10. 2021Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 39 here
  11. 2021HeadNeRF: A Real-time NeRF-based Parametric Head Modelcited by 44 here
  12. 2022NeuMan: Neural Human Radiance Field from a Single Videocited by 77 here
  13. 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusioncited by 73 here
  14. 2022ARAH: Animatable Volume Rendering of Articulated Human SDFscited by 58 here
  15. 2024SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splattingcited by 61 here

The 24 most cited of 974.

Browse

30 of 473, ranked 6–35

  1. 6GauHuman: Articulated Gaussian Splatting from Monocular Human Videos202362
  2. 7Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Rendering202162
  3. 8SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splatting202461
  4. 9ARAH: Animatable Volume Rendering of Articulated Human SDFs202258
  5. 10H-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Rendering and Temporal Reconstruction of Humans in Motion202153
  6. 11HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats202352
  7. 12Mixture of Volumetric Primitives for Efficient Neural Rendering202142
  8. 13Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videos202141
  9. 14Reconstructing Personalized Semantic Facial NeRF Models From Monocular Video202239
  10. 15Human Gaussian Splatting: Real-time Rendering of Animatable Avatars202338
All 30
  1. 16MonoHuman: Animatable Human Neural Field from Monocular Video202337
  2. 17Semantic-Aware Implicit Neural Audio-Driven Video Portrait Generation202233
  3. 18RigNeRF: Fully Controllable Neural 3D Portraits202233
  4. 19Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing202232
  5. 20SHERF: Generalizable Human NeRF from a Single Image202331
  6. 21GeneFace: Generalized and High-Fidelity Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Synthesis202329
  7. 22Expressive Whole-Body 3D Gaussian Avatar202428
  8. 23AvatarReX: Real-time Expressive Full-body Avatars202328
  9. 24Learning Dynamic Facial Radiance Fields for Few-Shot Talking Head Synthesis202228
  10. 25Efficient Region-Aware Neural Radiance Fields for High-Fidelity Talking Portrait Synthesis202327
  11. 26Real-time Neural Radiance Talking Portrait Synthesis via Audio-spatial Decomposition202226
  12. 27Fast-SNARF: A Fast Deformer for Articulated Neural Fields202226
  13. 28Learning Neural Volumetric Representations of Dynamic Humans in Minutes202325
  14. 29MPS-NeRF: Generalizable 3D Human Rendering from Multiview Images202224
  15. 30HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion202323
  16. 31PIRenderer: Controllable Portrait Image Generation via Semantic Neural Rendering202123
  17. 32MoFaNeRF: Morphable Facial Neural Radiance Field202123
  18. 33TalkingGaussian: Structure-Persistent 3D Talking Head Synthesis via Gaussian Splatting202422
  19. 34HeadGaS: Real-Time Animatable Head Avatars via 3D Gaussian Splatting202322
  20. 35Capturing and Animation of Body and Clothing from Monocular Video202222