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

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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Jeonghaeng, Choi, Seok Keun, Li, Zhixuan, Lin, Weisi, Lee, Sanghoon
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author Lee, Jeonghaeng
Choi, Seok Keun
Li, Zhixuan
Lin, Weisi
Lee, Sanghoon
author_facet Lee, Jeonghaeng
Choi, Seok Keun
Li, Zhixuan
Lin, Weisi
Lee, Sanghoon
contents While recent 3D head avatar creation methods attempt to animate facial dynamics, they often fail to capture personalized details, limiting realism and expressiveness. To fill this gap, we present DipGuava (Disentangled and Personalized Gaussian UV Avatar), a novel 3D Gaussian head avatar creation method that successfully generates avatars with personalized attributes from monocular video. DipGuava is the first method to explicitly disentangle facial appearance into two complementary components, trained in a structured two-stage pipeline that significantly reduces learning ambiguity and enhances reconstruction fidelity. In the first stage, we learn a stable geometry-driven base appearance that captures global facial structure and coarse expression-dependent variations. In the second stage, the personalized residual details not captured in the first stage are predicted, including high-frequency components and nonlinearly varying features such as wrinkles and subtle skin deformations. These components are fused via dynamic appearance fusion that integrates residual details after deformation, ensuring spatial and semantic alignment. This disentangled design enables DipGuava to generate photorealistic, identity-preserving avatars, consistently outperforming prior methods in both visual quality and quantitativeperformance, as demonstrated in extensive experiments.
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spellingShingle DipGuava: Disentangling Personalized Gaussian Features for 3D Head Avatars from Monocular Video
Lee, Jeonghaeng
Choi, Seok Keun
Li, Zhixuan
Lin, Weisi
Lee, Sanghoon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
While recent 3D head avatar creation methods attempt to animate facial dynamics, they often fail to capture personalized details, limiting realism and expressiveness. To fill this gap, we present DipGuava (Disentangled and Personalized Gaussian UV Avatar), a novel 3D Gaussian head avatar creation method that successfully generates avatars with personalized attributes from monocular video. DipGuava is the first method to explicitly disentangle facial appearance into two complementary components, trained in a structured two-stage pipeline that significantly reduces learning ambiguity and enhances reconstruction fidelity. In the first stage, we learn a stable geometry-driven base appearance that captures global facial structure and coarse expression-dependent variations. In the second stage, the personalized residual details not captured in the first stage are predicted, including high-frequency components and nonlinearly varying features such as wrinkles and subtle skin deformations. These components are fused via dynamic appearance fusion that integrates residual details after deformation, ensuring spatial and semantic alignment. This disentangled design enables DipGuava to generate photorealistic, identity-preserving avatars, consistently outperforming prior methods in both visual quality and quantitativeperformance, as demonstrated in extensive experiments.
title DipGuava: Disentangling Personalized Gaussian Features for 3D Head Avatars from Monocular Video
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28003