Revisiting Avatar-As-Image: High-Fidelity Registration is All You Need

The paper introduces AvaImg, a multi‑stage optimization pipeline that achieves high‑fidelity SMPL(-X)+D registrations with UV texture for arbitrary clothed scans. By enforcing a body‑inside‑clothing constraint through signed winding numbers and employing a three‑level efficiency cascade, AvaImg significantly reduces runtime and storage while recovering fine surface detail via coarse‑to‑fine displacement optimization. The resulting textured registrations are nearly indistinguishable from scans, and encoding the UV maps with a frozen FLUX VAE demonstrates compatibility with 2D generative models, enabling 3D avatar generation using image‑based priors.

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