TexAvatars: When UV Maps Learn to Respect Geometry
Face avatars fail in a very human way: they look fine until someone actually uses their face. A slight smile is easy. A frontal view is easy. A polite corporate-video expression, the kind that says “I am excited to join this quarterly alignment session,” is also easy enough. The real test begins when the mouth opens wide, the eyebrows compress, the head rotates, the teeth appear, the skin folds, and the avatar must still look like a person rather than a damp sticker stretched over a mesh. ...