PercHead: Perceptual Head Model for Single-Image 3D Head Reconstruction & Editing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02777v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:59:15 GMT
• Title: PercHead: Perceptual Head Model for Single-Image 3D Head Reconstruction & Editing
• Authors: Antonio Oroz, Matthias Nießner, Tobias Kirschstein,
• Abstract summary: PercHead is a method for single-image 3D head reconstruction and semantic 3D editing.<n>We develop a unified base model for reconstructing view-consistent 3D heads from a single input image.<n>We highlight the intuitive and powerful 3D editing capabilities of our model through a lightweight, interactive GUI.
• Score: 51.56943889042673
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present PercHead, a method for single-image 3D head reconstruction and semantic 3D editing - two tasks that are inherently challenging due to severe view occlusions, weak perceptual supervision, and the ambiguity of editing in 3D space. We develop a unified base model for reconstructing view-consistent 3D heads from a single input image. The model employs a dual-branch encoder followed by a ViT-based decoder that lifts 2D features into 3D space through iterative cross-attention. Rendering is performed using Gaussian Splatting. At the heart of our approach is a novel perceptual supervision strategy based on DINOv2 and SAM2.1, which provides rich, generalized signals for both geometric and appearance fidelity. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in novel-view synthesis and, furthermore, exhibits exceptional robustness to extreme viewing angles compared to established baselines. Furthermore, this base model can be seamlessly extended for semantic 3D editing by swapping the encoder and finetuning the network. In this variant, we disentangle geometry and style through two distinct input modalities: a segmentation map to control geometry and either a text prompt or a reference image to specify appearance. We highlight the intuitive and powerful 3D editing capabilities of our model through a lightweight, interactive GUI, where users can effortlessly sculpt geometry by drawing segmentation maps and stylize appearance via natural language or image prompts. Project Page: https://antoniooroz.github.io/PercHead Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hFybgTk4kE

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