3D Avatar Generation

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3D avatar generation studies how to build digital humans that preserve a person's appearance and can be viewed or animated from new poses and viewpoints. Methods use parametric models such as FLAME and SMPL-X, neural fields and 3D Gaussian splatting, and increasingly diffusion or transformer models for feed-forward reconstruction from a single image, sparse portraits, or video. Research also targets controllable facial and body motion, speech-driven expression, and realistic clothing and hair, with evaluation on benchmarks such as NeRSemble, ZJU-MoCap, and 4D-DRESS. A central challenge is balancing identity fidelity and 3D consistency with broad generalization, realistic dynamics, and fast inference, especially when parts of the person are unseen or training data are limited.

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  1. Structure-Aware Fine-Grained Gaussian Splatting for Expressive Avatar Reconstruction

    Apr 10, 2026Yuze Su, Hongsong Wang, Jie Gui +13D Hand Reconstruction3D Human Reconstruction

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, China +5

  2. GenLCA: 3D Diffusion for Full-Body Avatars from In-the-Wild Videos

    Apr 8, 2026Yiqian Wu, Rawal Khirodkar, Egor Zakharov +63D Avatar Generation3D Diffusion Models

    State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China · Codec Avatars Lab, Meta, USA · State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China

  3. PhysHead: Simulation-Ready Gaussian Head Avatars

    Apr 7, 2026Berna Kabadayi, Vanessa Sklyarova, Wojciech Zielonka +23D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · University of Tübingen · ETH Zürich +3

  4. AvatarPointillist: AutoRegressive 4D Gaussian Avatarization

    Apr 6, 2026Hongyu Liu, Xuan Wang, Zijian Wu +73D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    HKUST · Ant Group · City University of Hong Kong

  5. UNICA: A Unified Neural Framework for Controllable 3D Avatars

    Apr 3, 2026Jiahe Zhu, Xinyao Wang, Yiyu Zhuang +43D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, China

  6. Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining

    Apr 2, 2026Junxuan Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Chengan He +373D Avatar Generation3D Human Reconstruction

    Codec Avatars Lab, Meta

  7. True to Tone? Quantifying Skin Tone Fidelity and Bias in Photographic-to-Virtual Human Pipelines

    Apr 2, 2026Gabriel Ferri Schneider, Erick Menezes, Rafael Mecenas +3Algorithmic Bias3D Avatar Generation

    PUCRS Porto Alegre – RS – Brazil · INCT-SANI Brazil · UNIT Araujo – SE – Brazil +1

  8. Better Rigs, Not Bigger Networks: A Body Model Ablation for Gaussian Avatars

    Apr 1, 2026Derek Austin3D Avatar Generation3D Human Reconstruction

  9. Autoregressive Appearance Prediction for 3D Gaussian Avatars

    Apr 1, 2026Michael Steiner, Zhang Chen, Alexander Richard +33D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    Graz University of Technology, Austria · Meta Reality Labs, Pittsburgh, USA

  10. DipGuava: Disentangling Personalized Gaussian Features for 3D Head Avatars from Monocular Video

    Mar 30, 2026Jeonghaeng Lee, Seok Keun Choi, Zhixuan Li +23D Avatar Generation3D Gaussian Splatting

    Yonsei University, Korea · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  11. FHAvatar: Fast and High-Fidelity Reconstruction of Face-and-Hair Composable 3D Head Avatar from Few Casual Captures

    Mar 24, 2026Yujie Sun, Zhuoqiang Cai, Chaoyue Niu +43D Avatar Generation3D Reconstruction

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Alibaba Group

  12. SMAL-pets: SMAL Based Avatars of Pets from Single Image

    Mar 17, 2026Piotr Borycki, Joanna Waczyńska, Yizhe Zhu +2Text-Guided 3D Scene Editing3D Avatar Generation

    Jagiellonian University · Huawei

  13. ProgressiveAvatars: Progressive Animatable 3D Gaussian Avatars

    Mar 17, 2026Kaiwen Song, Jinkai Cui, Juyong Zhang3D Avatar Generation3D Gaussian Splatting

    University of Science and Technology of China

  14. Feed-forward Gaussian Registration for Head Avatar Creation and Editing

    Mar 16, 2026Malte Prinzler, Paulo Gotardo, Siyu Tang +13D Avatar GenerationMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    ETH Zürich · Google

  15. High-Fidelity 3D Facial Avatar Synthesis with Controllable Fine-Grained Expressions

    Mar 16, 2026Yikang He, Jichao Zhang, Wei Wang +23D Avatar Generation

    Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. · School of Computer Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. · Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Italy.

  16. Zero-Shot Reconstruction of Animatable 3D Avatars with Cloth Dynamics from a Single Image

    Mar 16, 2026Joohyun Kwon, Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon3D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    Korea University

  17. Retrieval-Augmented Gaussian Avatars: Improving Expression Generalization

    Mar 9, 2026Matan Levy, Gavriel Habib, Issar Tzachor +5Human Avatar Animation3D Avatar Generation

    The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel · OriginAI, Israel · Bar-Ilan University, Israel +2

  18. Dual Diffusion Models for Multi-modal Guided 3D Avatar Generation

    Mar 4, 2026Hong Li, Yutang Feng, Minqi Meng +33D Avatar GenerationText-to-3D Generation

    Beihang University · KAUST

  19. Gaussian Wardrobe: Compositional 3D Gaussian Avatars for Free-Form Virtual Try-On

    Mar 4, 2026Zhiyi Chen, Hsuan-I Ho, Tianjian Jiang +33D Garment Reconstruction3D Avatar Generation

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich · HKUST(GZ) · HKUST +1

  20. OMG-Avatar: One-shot Multi-LOD Gaussian Head Avatar

    Mar 2, 2026Jianqiang Ren, Lin Liu, Steven Hoi3D Avatar Generation3D Face Reconstruction

    Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group

  21. GeoDiff4D: Geometry-Aware Diffusion for 4D Head Avatar Reconstruction

    Feb 27, 2026Chao Xu, Xiaochen Zhao, Xiang Deng +43D Avatar Generation3D Face Reconstruction

    Tsinghua University · Li Auto

  22. WildGHand: Learning Anti-Perturbation Gaussian Hand Avatars from Monocular In-the-Wild Videos

    Feb 24, 2026Hanhui Li, Xuan Huang, Wanquan Liu +53D Hand Reconstruction3D Reconstruction

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, P.R. China, 518107. · Lenovo Research Group, Shenzhen, P.R. China, 518038.

  23. PoseCraft: Tokenized 3D Body Landmark and Camera Conditioning for Photorealistic Human Image Synthesis

    Feb 22, 2026Zhilin Guo, Jing Yang, Kyle Fogarty +93D Avatar GenerationConditional Image Generation

    University of Cambridge · Google

  24. BiMotion: B-spline Motion for Text-guided Dynamic 3D Character Generation

    Feb 21, 2026Miaowei Wang, Qingxuan Yan, Zhi Cao +4B-Spline Trajectory RepresentationText-to-Motion Generation

    University of Edinburgh · Cornell University · University of Michigan +1

  25. OMEGA-Avatar: One-shot Modeling of 360° Gaussian Avatars

    Feb 12, 2026Zehao Xia, Yiqun Wang, Zhengda Lu +33D Avatar GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

    Chongqing University, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · KAUST, Saudi Arabia

  26. 3DXTalker: Unifying Identity, Lip Sync, Emotion, and Spatial Dynamics in Expressive 3D Talking Avatars

    Feb 11, 2026Zhongju Wang, Zhenhong Sun, Beier Wang +4Lip Synchronization3D Avatar Generation

    University of New South Wales · Australian National University · Vertex Lab +1

  27. One-Shot Feed-Forward 360∘^{\circ} Animatable Avatar via Inpainted UV-Space Gaussian Modeling

    Jan 19, 2026Shuling Zhao, Dan Xu3D Gaussian Splatting3D Reconstruction

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Zeekr Automobile R&D Co., Ltd.

  28. AGORA: Adversarial Generation Of Real-time Animatable 3D Gaussian Head Avatars

    Dec 6, 2025Ramazan Fazylov, Sergey Zagoruyko, Aleksandr Parkin +23D Gaussian Splatting3D Asset Generation

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Polynome AI, Dubai, UAE · MTS AI, Moscow, Russia

  29. PanoLAM: Large Avatar Model for Gaussian Full-Head Synthesis from One-shot Unposed Image

    Sep 9, 2025Peng Li, Yisheng He, Yingdong Hu +83D Avatar GenerationSingle-View 3D Reconstruction

    HKUST · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · Fudan University

  30. SEGA: Drivable 3D Gaussian Head Avatar from a Single Image

    Apr 19, 2025Chen Guo, Zhuo Su, Liao Wang +83D Gaussian Splatting3D Asset Generation

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China · ByteDance and Pengcheng Lab, China · ByteDance, China +1