May
2026
Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars 'without' Multi-view Generation
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High-fidelity 3D Gaussian head avatar generation is critical for applications such as AR/VR, telepresence, and digital humans. Existing methods depend on multi-view datasets, 3D captures, or intermediate 2D view synthesis. In contrast, we learn both conditional and unconditional 3D head models from randomly sampled 2D images alone, without using multi-view data, 3D supervision, or intermediate view generation. We introduce MVCHead, a single-shot state space model that enforces multi-view consistency (MVC) directly in the 3D representation while regressing 3D Gaussians under these constraints. At its core, we propose a Hierarchical State Space (HiSS) block that progressively refines Gaussians from coarse to fine, while capturing long-range dependencies. Within each HiSS block, we modify Mamba's standard unidirectional scan with the proposed Hierarchical Bi-directional State Scan (HiBiSS) that aligns recurrence with the axes along which multi-view inconsistencies are strongest. Finally, we design an SE(3) Multi-view Critic that judges whether a set of self-renders arises from a single underlying 3D configuration, rewarding cross-view pixel alignment without observing real multi-view pairs. MVCHead achieves state-of-the-art perceptual quality, surpasses prior methods in both texture and geometric consistency, and maintains comparable shape consistency. To demonstrate scalability, we release FaceGS-10K, the first large-scale dataset of ready-to-use 3D Gaussian head assets for training and evaluation of 3D head models. Project Page and code: https://humansensinglab.github.io/MVCHead/
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@conference{Chharia-2026-88298,
author = {Aviral Chharia, Fernando De La Torre},
title = {Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars 'without' Multi-view Generation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
year = {2026},
month = {May},
pages = {40163-40174},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {Gaussian Avatars, Mamba, State Space Model, Multi-view Understanding},
}
author = {Aviral Chharia, Fernando De La Torre},
title = {Multi-view Consistent 3D Gaussian Head Avatars 'without' Multi-view Generation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
year = {2026},
month = {May},
pages = {40163-40174},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {Gaussian Avatars, Mamba, State Space Model, Multi-view Understanding},
}