Structured reconstruction priors make Gaussian head animation faster and steadier

GHARP separates offline identity construction from lightweight runtime animation, using a fixed-size Gaussian representation that does not grow with the number of reference images.

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Ali Benlalah · Sepehr Johari · Patricia Vitoria · Armin Kappeler · Artem Sevastopolsky · Alexander Jung · +11 more

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GHARP divides avatar creation into two stages.

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GHARP animates 3D head avatars in real time from a few input images and an expression signal by predicting expression-dependent residuals on a canonical Gaussian representation built offline.

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