Gaussian head avatar: Ultra high-fidelity head avatar via dynamic gaussians

Y Xu, B Chen, Z Li, H Zhang, L Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Creating high-fidelity 3D head avatars has always been a research hotspot but there
remains a great challenge under lightweight sparse view setups. In this paper we propose …

Relightable gaussian codec avatars

S Saito, G Schwartz, T Simon, J Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The fidelity of relighting is bounded by both geometry and appearance representations. For
geometry both mesh and volumetric approaches have difficulty modeling intricate structures …

ILSH: The imperial light-stage head dataset for human head view synthesis

J Zheng, Y Jang, A Papaioannou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper introduces the Imperial Light-Stage Head (ILSH) dataset, a novel light-stage-
captured human head dataset designed to support view synthesis academic challenges for …

UniTalker: Scaling up Audio-Driven 3D Facial Animation through A Unified Model

X Fan, J Li, Z Lin, W **ao, L Yang - European Conference on Computer …, 2024 - Springer
Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to map input audio to realistic facial motion. Despite
significant progress, limitations arise from inconsistent 3D annotations, restricting previous …

[HTML][HTML] Scalp surface estimation and head registration using sparse sampling and 3D statistical models

O Schlesinger, R Kundu, D Isaev, JY Choi… - Computers in biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Registering the head and estimating the scalp surface are important for various biomedical
procedures, including those using neuronavigation to localize brain stimulation or recording …

3D Facial Expressions through Analysis-by-Neural-Synthesis

G Retsinas, PP Filntisis, R Danecek… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
While existing methods for 3D face reconstruction from in-the-wild images excel at
recovering the overall face shape they commonly miss subtle extreme asymmetric or rarely …

3D Face Tracking from 2D Video through Iterative Dense UV to Image Flow

F Taubner, P Raina, M Tuli, EW Teh… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
When working with 3D facial data improving fidelity and avoiding the uncanny valley effect is
critically dependent on accurate 3D facial performance capture. Because such methods are …

Topo4D: Topology-Preserving Gaussian Splatting for High-fidelity 4D Head Capture

X Li, Y Cheng, X Ren, H Jia, D Xu, W Zhu… - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Recent significant advances in high-quality face reconstruction have been made, but
challenges remain in 4D face asset reconstruction. 4D head capture aims to generate …

GRAPE: Generalizable and Robust Multi-view Facial Capture

J Li, D Kang, Z He - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Deep learning-based multi-view facial capture methods have shown impressive accuracy
while being several orders of magnitude faster than a traditional mesh registration pipeline …

Infinite 3D Landmarks: Improving Continuous 2D Facial Landmark Detection

P Chandran, G Zoss, P Gotardo… - Computer Graphics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we examine three important issues in the practical use of state‐of‐the‐art facial
landmark detectors and show how a combination of specific architectural modifications can …