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One Basis to Animate Them All: Gaussian Blendshape Distillation for Real-Time Avatars
Oct 1, 2026Ramazan Fazylov, Stamatis Lefkimmiatis, Ivan LaptevAnimatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · MWS AI
Learning Semantic Inpainting for Animatable Gaussian Head Avatars
Sep 29, 2026Pilseo Park, Fizza Rubab, Yiying TongAnimatable 3D Human Avatars Inpainting
Michigan State University
Relightable 3D Avatar Reconstruction with Semantic-Adaptive Motion-Illumination Responses
Sep 21, 2026Jiankuo Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Jijie Li +3Avatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · ZKTeco Co., Ltd.
MGAvatar: Mesh-Bound Gaussians for Head Avatar Geometry and Appearance Modeling
Sep 11, 2026Lei Shi, Sen Peng, Zhiyang Deng +4Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
Guangdong Provincial/Zhuhai Key Laboratory of IRADS, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University, China · School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China · Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA +1
Multi-View Face and Gesture Animation with Dynamic Gaussians
Aug 5, 2026Alireza Javanmardi, Vippin Kumar Jeetmal, Christen Millerdurai +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Training-Set Long-Tail Motions
1German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) · 2RPTU
Forwardrobe: Garment-Aware Gaussian Avatars from a Single Image
Jul 31, 2026Daisheng Jin, Shuyun Wang, Ying HeAvatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
Nanyang Technological University · Singapore · The University of Queensland +1
S-Avatar: Diffusion-Guided Gaussian Head Avatars from a Single Image
Jul 30, 2026Hail Song, Seokhwan Yang, Jiwon Yang +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
KAIST UVR Lab · KAIST KI-ITC ARRC
Split and Drive: Dual-Axis Disentanglement for Real-Time Gaussian Head Avatars
Jul 30, 2026MD Wahiduzzaman Khan, Mingshan Jia, Xiaolin Zhang +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
University of Technology Sydney, Australia · Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Head Avatars with Dynamic Explicit Hair
Jul 26, 2026Vanessa Sklyarova, Haonan Chen, Berna Kabadayi +8Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
ETH Zürich, Switzerland · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany · Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany +5
RoadVGGT: Road-Structure-Aware Feed-Forward Road Surface Reconstruction
Jul 26, 2026Han Jiao, Chen Liu, Jiakai Sun +6Road Networks Surface Reconstruction
Zhejiang University · Li Auto Inc.
FA-LAM: Focus-Aware Large Avatar Model for One-Shot 4D Animatable Gaussian Head
Jul 23, 2026Yingdong Hu, Yisheng He, Yiming Jiang +3Animatable 3D Human Avatars
HKUST Hong Kong SAR, China · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group Hangzhou, China · Lingnan University Hong Kong SAR, China
FlexiAvatar: Unified 3D Gaussian Human Avatars Under Arbitrary Body Visibility
Jul 21, 2026Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh, Muhammad Salman Ali, Uyoung Jeong +5Avatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
UNIST, South Korea · University of Aberdeen, UK · University College London, UK +1
RegHead: Non-Humanoid Head Blendshapes via Feed-Forward Registration
Jul 13, 2026Jiahao Luo, Hao Zhang, Jianqi Chen +9Animatable 3D Human Avatars Cross-Embodiment Retargeting
1UCSC · 2UIUC · 3KAUST +1
GaussianEmoTalker: Real-Time Emotional Talking Head Synthesis with Audio-Driven and Blendshape-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jul 1, 2026Haijie Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yixuan Dong +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Speech Synthesis
PCA Lab, Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Systems for High-Dimensional Information of Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou, 215000, China · Tsientang Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou, 310000, China
LUNA: Learning Universal 3D Human Animation Beyond Skinning
Jun 30, 2026Peng Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Junxuan Li +6Animatable 3D Human Avatars Humanml3D
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Work was done during an internship at Meta. · Codec Avatars Lab, Meta
FFAvatar: Feed-Forward 4D Head Avatar Reconstruction from Sparse Portrait Images
Jun 29, 2026Jianjiang Yao, Ke Xian, Renxiang Dai +1Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
FiCA: Feed-forward instant Gaussian Codec Avatars from a Single Portrait Image
Jun 23, 2026Kim Youwang, Zhengyu Yang, Liuhao Ge +8Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
Codec Avatars Lab, Meta · Dept. of Electrical Engineering, POSTECH
Edit3DGS: Unified Framework for Dynamic Head Editing via 2D Instruction-Guided Diffusion and 3D Gaussian Splatting
Jun 16, 2026Duy-Dat Tran, Trung-Nghia LeAnimatable 3D Human Avatars 3D Editing
University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
SpatialAvatar-0: High-Quality 4D Head Avatar with Multi-Stage Reconstruction
Jun 14, 2026Yiran Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Yuanming Li +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
1USYD · 2SpatialReal · 3ZJU +1
Self-Learning Expression Deformations for Data-Efficient Gaussian Avatars
Jun 4, 2026Jiahao Yang, Xiaohang Yang, Qing Wang +3Animatable 3D Human Avatars Facial Expression Recognition
Queen Mary University of London
GN0: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Generation, Evaluation, and Policy Learning in Visual-Language Navigation
Jun 2, 2026Xinhai Li, Xiaotao Zhang, Yuehao Huang +10Vision-Language Navigation Object Goal Navigation
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Zhejiang University +3
AvatarMix: Identity-Preserving Cross-Avatar Composition for Outfit Personalization
Jun 2, 2026Zhaorong Wang, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Yuki EndoAnimatable 3D Human Avatars Garments
University of Tsukuba
HumanNOVA: Photorealistic, Universal and Rapid 3D Human Avatar Modeling from a Single Image
Jun 1, 2026Hezhen Hu, Wangbo Zhao, Lanqing Guo +6Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
University of Texas at Austin · National University of Singapore · Texas A&M University
SplitAvatar: One-shot Head Avatar with Autoregressive Gaussian Splitting
May 25, 2026Hongzhe Liao, Chuhua Xian, Hongmin Cai +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
South China University of Technology · University of Tokyo · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars 'without' Multi-view Generation
May 24, 2026Aviral Chharia, Fernando De la TorreAnimatable 3D Human Avatars 3D Gaussian
Carnegie Mellon University
COSY: Compositional 3DGS Synthesis for Disentangled Human Head Editing
May 22, 2026Florian Barthel, Shalini De Mello, Koki Nagano +33D Editing Animatable 3D Human Avatars
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany · Humboldt University Berlin, Germany · NVIDIA, USA
Generator-Refiner-Examiner: A Tri-Module Data Augmentation Framework for 3D Human Avatar Learning from Monocular Videos
May 22, 2026Gangjian Zhang, Jian Shu, Sicheng Yu +3Avatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
HKUST(GZ) Guangzhou, China · Nanyang Technological University Singapore
DAMA: Disentangled Body-Anchored Gaussians for Controllable Multi-Layered Avatars
May 20, 2026Daniel Eskandar, Berna Kabadayi, Garvita Tiwari +1Avatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
University of Tübingen, Germany · Tübingen AI Center, Germany · Zuse School ELIZA, Germany +2
PiG-Avatar: Hierarchical Neural-Field-Guided Gaussian Avatars
May 19, 2026Julian Kaltheuner, Jan Spindler, Sina Kitz +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
University of Bonn, Germany
FFAvatar: Few-Shot, Feed-Forward, and Generalizable Avatar Reconstruction
May 14, 2026Thuan Hoang Nguyen, Jiahao Luo, Yinyu Nie +3Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
Snap Inc. · MBZUAI · University of California, Santa Cruz
HumanSplatHMR: Closing the Loop Between Human Mesh Recovery and Gaussian Splatting Avatar
May 4, 2026Yeheng Zong, Pou-Chun Kung, Yike Pan +4Human Mesh Recovery Avatar Reconstruction
University of Michigan
High-Fidelity Mobile Avatars with Pruned Local Blendshapes
May 3, 2026Youyi Zhan, He Wang, Tianjia Shao +1Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · University College London
MeshLAM: Feed-Forward One-Shot Animatable Textured Mesh Avatar Reconstruction
Apr 23, 2026Yisheng He, Steven HoiAvatar Reconstruction Animatable 3D Human Avatars
Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group
MUA: Mobile Ultra-detailed Animatable Avatars
Apr 20, 2026Heming Zhu, Guoxing Sun, Marc HabermannAvatars Animatable 3D Human Avatars
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany.
AHS: Adaptive Head Synthesis via Synthetic Data Augmentations
Apr 17, 2026Taewoong Kang, Hyojin Jang, Sohyun Jeong +4Animatable 3D Human Avatars Data Augmentation
KAIST · Korea University · FLIPTION
One-shot Compositional 3D Head Avatars with Deformable Hair
Apr 16, 2026Yuan Sun, Xuan Wang, WeiLi Zhang +3Animatable 3D Human Avatars Deformable Cnn
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
AHOY! Animatable Humans under Occlusion from YouTube Videos with Gaussian Splatting and Video Diffusion Priors
Mar 18, 2026Aymen Mir, Riza Alp Guler, Xiangjun Tang +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Video Diffusion Models
Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany · Imperial College London, UK · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia +1
One-Shot Feed-Forward 360 $^{\circ}$ Animatable Avatar via Inpainted UV-Space Gaussian Modeling
Jan 19, 2026Shuling Zhao, Dan XuAnimatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Zeekr Automobile R&D Co., Ltd.
Instant Expressive Gaussian Head Avatars at Over 100 FPS
Dec 18, 2025Kaiwen Jiang, Xueting Li, Seonwook Park +3Animatable 3D Human Avatars Facial Expression Recognition
University of California, San Diego, United States · NVIDIA, United States
AGORA: Adversarial Generation Of Real-time Animatable 3D Gaussian Head Avatars
Dec 6, 2025Ramazan Fazylov, Sergey Zagoruyko, Aleksandr Parkin +2Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Polynome AI, Dubai, UAE · MTS AI, Moscow, Russia
StyleFusion360: View-Consistent Head Stylization via Adaptive Style Modulation
Nov 27, 2025Furkan Guzelant, Arda Goktogan, Tarık Kaya +1Stylization Animatable 3D Human Avatars
Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Türkiye
SEGA: Drivable 3D Gaussian Head Avatar from a Single Image
Apr 19, 2025Chen Guo, Zhuo Su, Liao Wang +8Animatable 3D Human Avatars 3D Gaussian
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China · ByteDance and Pengcheng Lab, China · ByteDance, China +1

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One Basis to Animate Them All: Gaussian Blendshape Distillation for Real-Time Avatars

Ramazan Fazylov, Stamatis Lefkimmiatis, Ivan Laptev

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · MWS AI

Animatable 3D Human Avatars Avatars Neural Rendering Deformable Cnn

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3D Gaussian avatars support fast rendering, however, their real-time animation is often challenged by the costly neural inference. We address this bottleneck and show that the animation of pretrained avatar models can be closely approximated by a linear combination of identity-independent blendshapes. Building on this finding, we introduce GALA (Gaussian Animation via Linear Approximation), a distillation method that replaces per-frame heavy neural decoding with a shallow coefficient predictor and a linear blend. To improve fidelity and reduce memory requirements, we propose to construct the basis using block-local PCA under a rendering-aware metric and a memory budget. Our method learns a shallow MLP network to predict blendshape coefficients and applies to various animation architectures without retraining original models. We validate GALA by accelerating the inference of three distinct avatar models for 3D animation of facial expressions and full-bodies with clothing dynamics. Across these models, our distillation generalizes to held-out identities and reduces CPU animation cost by up to three orders of magnitude while preserving most of the rendering quality. Excellent results of our method confirm the shared linear structure of learned avatar representations and enable highly efficient and accurate animation at frame rates reaching up to 60fps on mobile devices. Project page: https://ramazan793.github.io/gala/

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