High-quality three-dimensional cartoon avatar reconstruction with Gaussian splatting

MinHyuk Jang, Jong Wook Kim, Youngdong Jang, Donghyun Kim, Wonseok Roh, Inyong Hwang, Guang Lin, Sangpil Kim

Abstract: Highlights•Reconstruct 3D cartoon avatars from a single animated video.•Surface fitting captures challenging geometry of cartoon avatars.•Style normalizer trains color distribution; frequency loss sharpens fine details.•Novel pixel-wise segmentation module separates characters from backgrounds.•Outperform state-of-the-art methods, meeting the demand for 3D character modeling.