Gaussian Head Avatars: A Summary

There has been a recent explosion of Gaussian Splatting papers and the avatar space is no exception. How do they work and are they going to revolutionise the field?

And breathe… If you’re interested in the research into digital humans and have any form of social media, you’ve almost certainly been bombarded by dozens of papers applying Gaussian splatting to the field. As the great Jia-Bin Huang said: …

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