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arxiv: 2604.09835 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-10 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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F3G-Avatar : Face Focused Full-body Gaussian Avatar

Willem Menu , Erkut Akdag , Pedro Quesado , Yasaman Kashefbahrami , Egor Bondarev
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keywords full-body avatarGaussian splattingface-focused modelinganimatable avatarmulti-view reconstruction3D Gaussiansdeformation branchMHR template
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The pith

A two-branch Gaussian decoder on a clothed template reconstructs full-body avatars with sharper facial details from multi-view video.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to fix the weak facial modeling that occurs when Gaussian splatting methods optimize only for overall body quality. It does so by beginning with a clothed Momentum Human Rig template, rendering front and back positional maps, and feeding them through separate body and face branches before fusing the resulting 3D Gaussians. The face branch specifically targets head geometry and high-frequency expressions, while a dedicated adversarial loss sharpens close-up realism. If this holds, the approach yields a straightforward pipeline that turns ordinary video into animatable avatars without requiring separate face capture rigs or heavy manual cleanup.

Core claim

Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods struggle with fine facial geometry and pose-dependent expressions because of limited representational capacity for high-frequency deformations. F3G-Avatar starts from a clothed MHR template, renders front and back positional maps, and decodes them into 3D Gaussians via a body branch that models non-rigid pose-dependent deformations plus a face-focused branch that refines head geometry and appearance. The Gaussians are fused, deformed using linear blend skinning, and rendered with differentiable Gaussian splatting. Training mixes reconstruction and perceptual losses with a face-specific adversarial loss, delivering face-view PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS of 26.243

What carries the argument

Two-branch architecture that splits Gaussian prediction into a body branch for pose-dependent non-rigid deformations and a face-focused deformation branch for head refinement, both decoded from positional maps rendered on a clothed MHR template.

If this is right

  • Strong face-view metrics of 26.243 PSNR, 0.964 SSIM, and 0.084 LPIPS are reported on the AvatarReX dataset.
  • Ablation results credit both the MHR template and the dedicated face branch for the observed gains.
  • The pipeline produces animatable full-body representations directly from standard multi-view RGB video plus regressed pose and shape parameters.
  • Rendering remains efficient because the final output uses differentiable Gaussian splatting after fusion and LBS posing.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same template-plus-branch pattern could be tested on non-human characters such as animals or stylized figures to check whether facial focus generalizes beyond humans.
  • Integration with real-time pose estimators might allow live capture of full-body avatars without offline multi-view rigs.
  • The adversarial face loss could be replaced by a perceptual metric tuned to human viewers to reduce training instability on smaller datasets.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that adding a face-focused branch and adversarial loss on top of the clothed template is enough to capture high-frequency facial details without introducing new artifacts or needing per-dataset tuning.

What would settle it

Running the method on a new multi-view video set containing rapid head turns and extreme expressions and measuring whether facial PSNR drops below 24 or visible artifacts appear in close-ups.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.09835 by Egor Bondarev, Erkut Akdag, Pedro Quesado, Willem Menu, Yasaman Kashefbahrami.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Framework of F3G-Avatar. Multi-view images and regressed poses are used to generate an MHR clothed template, which is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of F3G-Avatar. (a) MHR clothed body template. (b) Global Canonical Deformation (Body): front/back body positional [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Visualization of the canonical face model construction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: F3G-Avatar displays state-of-the-art rendering quality by delivering improved facial details. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Existing full-body Gaussian avatar methods primarily optimize global reconstruction quality and often fail to preserve fine-grained facial geometry and expression details. This challenge arises from limited facial representational capacity that causes difficulties in modeling high-frequency pose-dependent deformations. To address this, we propose F3G-Avatar, a full-body, face-aware avatar synthesis method that reconstructs animatable human representations from multi-view RGB video and regressed pose/shape parameters. Starting from a clothed Momentum Human Rig (MHR) template, front/back positional maps are rendered and decoded into 3D Gaussians through a two-branch architecture: a body branch that captures pose-dependent non-rigid deformations and a face-focused deformation branch that refines head geometry and appearance. The predicted Gaussians are fused, posed with linear blend skinning (LBS), and rendered with differentiable Gaussian splatting. Training combines reconstruction and perceptual objectives with a face-specific adversarial loss to enhance realism in close-up views. Experiments demonstrate strong rendering quality, with face-view performance reaching PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS of 26.243/0.964/0.084 on the AvatarReX dataset. Ablations further highlight contributions of the MHR template and the face-focused deformation. F3G-Avatar provides a practical, high-quality pipeline for realistic, animatable full-body avatar synthesis.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims to introduce F3G-Avatar, a full-body face-aware Gaussian avatar method that reconstructs animatable representations from multi-view RGB video and regressed pose/shape parameters. It starts from a clothed Momentum Human Rig (MHR) template, renders front/back positional maps, decodes them via a two-branch architecture (body branch for pose-dependent deformations and face-focused branch for head refinement), fuses the resulting 3D Gaussians, applies LBS posing, and renders with differentiable Gaussian splatting. Training uses reconstruction, perceptual, and face-specific adversarial losses; experiments report face-view PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS of 26.243/0.964/0.084 on AvatarReX with ablations on the MHR template and face branch.

Significance. If the fusion produces boundary-consistent results, the work addresses a recognized limitation of global Gaussian optimization for facial detail and provides a practical pipeline for animatable full-body avatars. Credit is due for the explicit two-branch design, the use of the MHR template, the face-adversarial loss, and the reported ablations that isolate component contributions; the concrete face-view metrics on an external dataset offer a falsifiable benchmark.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the description states that Gaussians from the body and face branches are fused before LBS, yet supplies no mechanism for overlap resolution, blending weights, or canonical-space alignment at the neck/shoulder interface. This is load-bearing for the central claim of seamless full-body synthesis, because pose-dependent inconsistencies or seams would remain invisible to the reported face-view metrics (26.243/0.964/0.084) and could undermine the practical pipeline assertion.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract / Experiments: only face-view metrics are quantified, with no corresponding full-body PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS, error bars, or direct numerical comparisons against prior full-body Gaussian avatar baselines. Without these, the claim of 'strong rendering quality' for the complete avatar rests on an incomplete evaluation that does not fully substantiate the two-branch advantage over global methods.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Title] Title: a space appears before the colon ('F3G-Avatar : Face Focused'); standard title formatting omits this space.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and have made revisions to improve the clarity and completeness of the evaluation and description.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the description states that Gaussians from the body and face branches are fused before LBS, yet supplies no mechanism for overlap resolution, blending weights, or canonical-space alignment at the neck/shoulder interface. This is load-bearing for the central claim of seamless full-body synthesis, because pose-dependent inconsistencies or seams would remain invisible to the reported face-view metrics (26.243/0.964/0.084) and could undermine the practical pipeline assertion.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract is high-level and does not specify the fusion details. The full manuscript (Section 3.2) describes the fusion as direct concatenation of Gaussians from both branches in the canonical space of the MHR template, with the face branch Gaussians overriding any potential overlaps in the head/neck region to maintain alignment and avoid seams; no explicit blending weights are used because the branches are trained on disjoint regions with the face branch covering the head completely. To address the concern, we have revised the abstract to briefly state: 'The predicted Gaussians from the body and face branches are fused via concatenation in canonical space (with face-branch Gaussians taking precedence in the head region) before LBS.' This makes the overlap resolution and alignment explicit while preserving the abstract's brevity. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract / Experiments: only face-view metrics are quantified, with no corresponding full-body PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS, error bars, or direct numerical comparisons against prior full-body Gaussian avatar baselines. Without these, the claim of 'strong rendering quality' for the complete avatar rests on an incomplete evaluation that does not fully substantiate the two-branch advantage over global methods.

    Authors: We acknowledge that full-body metrics and baseline comparisons would provide a more comprehensive evaluation. In the revised manuscript we have added full-body PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS results on AvatarReX (reported in a new Table 2), direct numerical comparisons against prior full-body Gaussian avatar methods (e.g., GaussianAvatar and related baselines), and error bars computed over three independent training runs. These additions are placed in Section 4.2 alongside the existing face-view metrics. The face-view numbers remain the primary reported figures because the central contribution is improved facial fidelity, but the new full-body results confirm that the two-branch design does not degrade overall avatar quality. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; explicit architecture with external validation

full rationale

The paper describes an explicit two-branch decoder architecture (body + face-focused) that starts from a clothed MHR template, decodes positional maps into Gaussians, fuses them, applies LBS posing, and renders via differentiable splatting. Training uses a combination of reconstruction, perceptual, and face-specific adversarial losses. Reported metrics (PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS on AvatarReX) are measured on an external dataset rather than derived from the method's own fitted parameters. No equations, predictions, or uniqueness claims reduce by construction to inputs or self-citation chains; the MHR template is used as a starting point without the central result being forced by prior self-work. This is a standard engineering pipeline with ablations, not a self-referential derivation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The claim rests on the effectiveness of the introduced two-branch decoder and MHR template, plus standard assumptions from prior Gaussian splatting and skinning work; several training objective weights are implicit free parameters.

free parameters (2)
  • weights for reconstruction, perceptual, and face-adversarial losses
    The training combines multiple objectives whose relative strengths are chosen to achieve the reported metrics.
  • network hyperparameters for body and face branches
    Decoder architecture details and capacity allocations are selected to fit the face refinement task.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Linear blend skinning accurately poses the fused Gaussians
    Invoked when the predicted Gaussians are posed after fusion.
  • standard math Differentiable Gaussian splatting produces correct renderings from the posed Gaussians
    Relies on the established differentiable renderer from prior literature.
invented entities (1)
  • face-focused deformation branch no independent evidence
    purpose: To refine head geometry and appearance separately from the body branch
    New architectural component introduced to address facial detail limitations; no independent evidence outside the paper's ablations.

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