NeRSemble Benchmark

Workshop Program

TBA

Workshop Challenges

The workshop holds a competition on the newly introduced NeRSemble benchmark for 3D Head avatars. The goal is to find the current best method for dynamic novel view synthesis on heads and monocular FLAME-driven avatar reconstruction.

Monocular FLAME Avatar Challenge

Given several frontal videos of a person's head with corresponding tracked meshes from FLAME, the task is to re-animate the person with unseen FLAME expression codes and then render from both seen (blue) and unseen (orange) camera viewpoints. This requires reconstructing an animatable 3D head representation (=3D head avatar). The challenge is conducted on recordings from 5 different individuals. For each individual, 18 short facial performance sequences are provided for training while the remaining 4 sequences are hold-out. For the hold-out sequences, only the tracked FLAME meshes and the camera poses are known.

Competition Prizes

The winner of each workshop challenge will receive:

a dedicated 15-minute oral presentation in the workshop to showcase your method
an RTX 5080 GPU sponsored by NVIDIA*

*cannot be gifted to non-academics or persons residing outside of North America and Europe due to export restrictions imposed on NVIDIA by the US government