Awesome Avatars

List of recent advances for human avatars, including generation, reconstruction, and editing, etc.

If you find any missed paper, feel free to open an issue or PR.

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• Awesome Avatars
  • Avatar Generation
  • Per-subject Avatar Reconstruction
  • Generalizable Avatar Novel View Synthesis
  • Generalizable Avatar Mesh Reconstruction
  • Text-to-Avatar
  • Avatar Interaction
  • Motion Generation
  • SMPL Estimation
  • Dataset
  • Aknowledgement

Avatar Generation

• Unsupervised Learning of Efficient Geometry-Aware Neural Articulated Representations (ECCV 2022)
  

• GENERATIVE NEURAL ARTICULATED RADIANCE FIELDS (NeurIPS 2022)
  

• AvatarGen: a 3D Generative Model for Animatable Human Avatars (arXiv 01/08/2022)
  

• EVA3D: Compositional 3D Human Generation from 2D Image Collections (ICLR 2023 Spotlight)
  

• AG3D: Learning to Generate 3D Avatars from 2D Image Collections (ICCV 2023)
  

• Get3DHuman: Lifting StyleGAN-Human into a 3D Generative Model using Pixel-aligned Reconstruction Priors. (ICCV 2023)
  

• 3D Magic Mirror: Clothing Reconstruction from a Single Image via a Causal Perspective. (arXiv 2022)
  

Per-subject Avatar Reconstruction

• Neural Body: Implicit Neural Representations with Structured Latent Codes for Novel View Synthesis of Dynamic Humans (CVPR 2021)
  

• Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies (ICCV 2021)
  

• Neural Human Radiance Field from a Single Video (ECCV 2022)
  

• HumanNeRF: Free-viewpoint Rendering of Moving People from Monocular Video (CVPR 2022)
  

• MonoHuman: Animatable Human Neural Field from Monocular Video (CVPR 2023)
  

• InstantAvatar: Learning Avatars from Monocular Video in 60 Seconds (CVPR 2023)
  

• Vid2Avatar: 3D Avatar Reconstruction From Videos in the Wild via Self-Supervised Scene Decomposition (CVPR 2023)
  

• Relightable and Animatable Neural Avatar from Sparse-View Video (arXiv 17/08/2023)
  

• TeCH: Text-guided Reconstruction of Lifelike Clothed Humans (3DV 2024)
  

• Learning Neural Volumetric Representations of Dynamic Humans in Minutes (CVPR 2023)
  

• HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats (Arxiv 2023)
  

• GaussianAvatar: Towards Realistic Human Avatar Modeling from a Single Video via Animatable 3D Gaussians (Arxiv 2023)
  

• GART: Gaussian Articulated Template Models (Arxiv 2023)
  

• Human101: Training 100+FPS Human Gaussians in 100s from 1 View (Arxiv 2023)
  

Generalizable Avatar Novel View Synthesis

• Neural Human Performer: Learning Generalizable Radiance Fields for Human Performance Rendering (NeurIPS 2021)
  

• MPS-NeRF: Generalizable 3D Human Rendering from Multiview Images (TPAMI 2022)
  

• GP-NeRF: Geometry-Guided Progressive NeRF for Generalizable and Efficient Neural Human Rendering (ECCV 2022)
  

• HumanNeRF: Efficiently Generated Human Radiance Field from Sparse Inputs (CVPR 2022)