Apple's GHARP animates 3D heads in real time on mobile
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GHARP splits head animation into an offline identity stage and a lightweight runtime network, hitting state-of-the-art quality on the Ava-256 benchmark while running up to 13× faster on an A100 GPU with 8× fewer Gaussians. A body alignment network fixes blur and flicker from underspecified body pose and clothing.
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