cs.CVAug 24, 2026

Photorealistic Novel View Synthesis of Human Faces using Next-Scale Transformers

Authors: Federico Stella, Fei Jiang, Zhongshi Jiang, Zohar Barzelay, Emanuel Garbin, Amin Jourabloo, Liuhao Ge

Organizations: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland · Meta

Abstract

Photorealistic novel view synthesis of people remains challenging at high spatial resolutions and across multiple target cameras, where preserving identity, fine appearance details, and geometric coherence is critical. We build on the next-scale autoregressive paradigm and adapt it for human-centric view synthesis by enabling higher image resolutions, multi-view outputs and stronger cross-view consistency in a single forward pass. We train on a synthetic dataset of human faces spanning diverse identities and apparel. Contrary to diffusion models, this paradigm does not need 2D pre-training and, thanks to its next-scale architecture, it benefits from lower-resolution, general-purpose pre-trainings, with the full-sized purpose-specific images being used only in the last training stages. This enables our architecture to converge with a smaller amount of purpose-specific training data, allowing us to use a smaller but more realistic training dataset. The resulting model produces sharp and realistic views, with the option to synthesize multiple novel viewpoints simultaneously for improved agreement across views. Empirically, we observe gains in perceptual fidelity and cross-view coherence on human subjects, demonstrating that next-scale autoregression is an effective backbone for scalable, multi-output human view synthesis. We also couple our pipeline with an existing transformer-based model for pixel-aligned 3D gaussian lifting from multi-view facial inputs, resulting in accurate and photorealistic 3D models of human faces.

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