HeadGAP: Few-shot 3D Head Avatar via
Generalizable GAussian Priors

3DV 2025

1ByteDance
2ShanghaiTech University

We present an approach to creating photo-realistic animatable 3D head avatars from only a few or even one image of the target person.

Video Results

3-shot

Cross-reenactment Results

Self-reenactment Results

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel 3D head avatar creation approach capable of generalizing from few-shot in-the-wild data with high-fidelity and animatable robustness. Given the underconstrained nature of this problem, incorporating prior knowledge is essential. Therefore, we propose a framework comprising prior learning and avatar creation phases. The prior learning phase leverages 3D head priors derived from a large-scale multi-view dynamic dataset, and the avatar creation phase applies these priors for few-shot personalization. Our approach effectively captures these priors by utilizing a Gaussian Splatting-based auto-decoder network with part-based dynamic modeling. Our method employs identity-shared encoding with personalized latent codes for individual identities to learn the attributes of Gaussian primitives. During the avatar creation phase, we achieve fast head avatar personalization by leveraging inversion and fine-tuning strategies. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model effectively exploits head priors and successfully generalizes them to few-shot personalization, achieving photo-realistic rendering quality, multi-view consistency, and stable animation.

HeadGAP framework

Ours framework.
(1)The prior learning phase uses different IDs' data to embed head priors into the GAPNet. (2)The personalization phase firstly optimizes identity codes to obtain the inverted avatar, then updates the GAPNet to get the fine-tuned avatar.

Network Architecture

Ours pipeline.

Results

Our 3-shot results on NeRSemble and in-house dataset

Ours vs. state-of-the-art methods on InterHand2.6M.

In-the-wild 3-shot results

Ours in-the-wild results.

Applications

Texture Interpolation & Texture Swapping

Texture Interpolation & Texture Swapping.

BibTeX


@article{zheng2024headgap,
  title={HeadGAP: Few-shot 3D Head Avatar via Generalizable Gaussian Priors},
  author={Zheng, Xiaozheng and Wen, Chao and Li, Zhaohu and Zhang, Weiyi and Su, Zhuo and Chang, Xu and Zhao, Yang and Lv, Zheng and Zhang, Xiaoyuan and Zhang, Yongjie and Wang, Guidong and Xu Lan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06019},
  year={2024}
}