Snap-Snap: Taking Two Images to Reconstruct 3D Human Gaussians in Milliseconds

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Authors: Jia Wei Lu, Taoran Yi, Jiemin Fang, Yang Chen, C. Wu, Wei Shen, Wenyu Liu, Qi Chuan Tian, Xinggang Wang
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Abstract

Reconstructing 3D human bodies from sparse views has been an appealing topic, which is crucial to broader the related applications. In this paper, we propose a quite challenging but valuable task to reconstruct the human body from only two images, i.e., the front and back view, which can largely lower the barrier for users to create their own 3D digital humans. The main challenges lie in the difficulty of building 3D consistency and recovering missing information from the highly sparse input. We redesign a geometry reconstruction model based on foundation reconstruction models to predict consistent point clouds even input images have scarce overlaps with extensive human data training. Furthermore, an enhancement algorithm is applied to supplement the missing color information, and then the complete human point clouds with colors can be obtained, which are directly transformed into 3D Gaussians for better rendering quality. Experiments show that our method can reconstruct the entire human in 190 ms on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090, with two images at a resolution of 1024x1024, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on the THuman2.0 and cross-domain datasets. Additionally, our method can complete human reconstruction even with images captured by low-cost mobile devices, reducing the requirements for data collection. Demos and code are available at https://hustvl.github.io/Snap-Snap/.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Vision and Imaging Human Pose and Action Recognition

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Volume
36
Issue
9
Pages
12782–12795
Publication date
22 June 2026
Language
EN