3DPortraitGAN: Learning One-Quarter Headshot 3D GANs From a Single-View Portrait Dataset With Diverse Body Poses
Yiqian Wu, Hao Xu, Xiangjun Tang, Yue Shang-Guan, Hongbo Fu, Xiaogang Jin · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology · 2025
3D-aware face generators are typically trained on 2D real-life face image datasets that primarily consist of near-frontal face data. Due to data limitations, these generators cannot generateone-quarter headshot3D portraits with head, neck, and shoulder geometry, which is crucial for applications like talking heads. Two reasons account for this issue: First, existing facial recognition methods struggle with extracting facial data captured from large camera angles or back views. Second, it is challenging to learn a distribution of 3D portraits covering the one-quarter headshot region from single-view data due to significant geometric deformation caused by diverse body poses. To this end, we first create the dataset360°-Portrait-HQ(360°PHQfor short) which consists of high-quality single-view real portraits annotated with a variety of camera parameters (the yaw angles span the entire 360° range) and body poses. We then propose3DPortraitGAN, the first 3D-aware one-quarter headshot portrait generator that learns a canonical 3D avatar distribution from the360°PHQ dataset with body pose self-learning. Our model can generate view-consistent portrait images from all camera angles with a canonical one-quarter headshot 3D representation. Our experiments show that the proposed framework can accurately predict portrait body poses and generate view-consistent, realistic portrait images with complete geometry from all camera angles.