Gaussian Splatting has taken the VFX scene by storm over the last 6-8 months, and new research backed by Synthesia has produced some of the most impressive Splat-based human avatars ever seen, overtaking the state-of-the-art in tests. But is the burden of complexity, in adding neural systems, too high a price to pay for the improvements? The post Better Human Facial Synthesis With Gaussian Splatting and Parametric Heads first appeared on Metaphysic.ai.