GaussianAvatars

GaussianAvatars builds photorealistic, fully controllable head avatars by rigging 3D Gaussians to a parametric face mesh (FLAME), so expression, pose and viewpoint can be animated with high fidelity from monocular video. From Matthias Nießner's lab; CVPR 2024 Highlight (preprint Dec 2023). The follow-up GASP (arXiv:2412.07739) adds synthetic priors for head-avatar generation.