Arc2Avatar: Generating Expressive 3D Avatars from a Single Image via ID Guidance

no code implementations • 9 Jan 2025 • Dimitrios Gerogiannis, Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Alexandros Lattas, Stefanos Zafeiriou

Inspired by the effectiveness of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) in reconstructing detailed 3D scenes within multi-view setups and the emergence of large 2D human foundation models, we introduce Arc2Avatar, the first SDS-based method utilizing a human face foundation model as guidance with just a single image as input.

3DGS Diversity

AnimateMe: 4D Facial Expressions via Diffusion Models

no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Dimitrios Gerogiannis, Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou, Rolandos Alexandros Potamias, Alexandros Lattas, Stylianos Moschoglou, Stylianos Ploumpis, Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the capabilities of generative models in 2D animation.

Denoising Facial expression generation