# Avatars

Area: [3D reconstruction and neural rendering](https://mlsanity.com/recon3d/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/recon3d/avatars/

## 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).
- 83 of its 473 mapped papers (18%) cite “A-NeRF: Articulated Neural Radiance Fields for Learning Human Shape, Appearance, and Pose” (2021, arXiv 2102.06199).
- 1 new papers 1 Oct–19 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.02872/) (2021), cited by 110 papers here
- [A-NeRF: Articulated Neural Radiance Fields for Learning Human Shape, Appearance, and Pose](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.06199/) (2021), cited by 83 papers here
- [NeuMan: Neural Human Radiance Field from a Single Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.12575/) (2022), cited by 77 papers here
- [3DGS-Avatar: Animatable Avatars via Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.09228/) (2023), cited by 67 papers here
- [AD-NeRF: Audio Driven Neural Radiance Fields for Talking Head Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.11078/) (2021), cited by 64 papers here
- [Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.07448/) (2021), cited by 62 papers here
- [GauHuman: Articulated Gaussian Splatting from Monocular Human Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02973/) (2023), cited by 62 papers here
- [SplattingAvatar: Realistic Real-Time Human Avatars with Mesh-Embedded Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.05087/) (2024), cited by 61 papers here
- [ARAH: Animatable Volume Rendering of Articulated Human SDFs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.10036/) (2022), cited by 58 papers here
- [H-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Rendering and Temporal Reconstruction of Humans in Motion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.13746/) (2021), cited by 53 papers here

## New (1 Oct–19 Oct)

- [EGGHead: Efficient Generalizable Gaussian Heads from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.26898/) (2026-10-16)