Loc3Diff: Local Diffusion for 3D Human Head Synthesis and Editing

Yushi Lan*, Feitong Tan, Qiangeng Xu, Di Qiu, Kyle Genova, Zeng Huang, Rohit Pandey, Sean Fanello, Thomas Funkhouser, Chen Change Loy, Yinda Zhang* ;

"We present a novel framework for generating photorealistic 3D human head and subsequently manipulating and reposing them with remarkable flexibility. The proposed approach constructs an implicit representation of 3D human heads, anchored on a parametric face model. To enhance representational capabilities and encode spatial information, we represent semantic consistent head region by a local tri-plane, modulated by a 3D Gaussian. Additionally, we parameterize these tri-planes in a 2D UV space via a 3DMM, enabling effective utilization of the diffusion model for 3D head avatar generation. Our method facilitates the creation of diverse and realistic 3D human heads with flexible global and fine-grained region-based editing over facial structures, appearance and expressions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method."