Tele360: Real-Time Feed-forward Human Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Cameras
Live free-viewpoint visualization of real humans is critical for immersive communication and interactive digital experiences. Existing methods either rely on computationally expensive optimization or require calibrated cameras and low-resolution inputs, making real-time high-resolution deployment impractical. In this work, we present Tele360, the first real-time feedforward system for dynamic human reconstruction and live free-viewpoint visualization from sparse, unposed RGB streams. Our system jointly estimates camera poses and reconstructs a dynamic 3D Gaussian representation for each time instance in a single forward pass. To achieve this, we start by designing a lightweight sparsity-aware multi-view transformer backbone that tokenizes foreground human regions while preserving global context through a shared scene token. We then employ a fully transformer-based Gaussian decoder to mitigate convolution-induced over-smoothing while keeping decoding sparse and efficient. In addition, we introduce a hybrid feature pyramid that injects multi-scale appearance cues into geometry prediction. We further introduce a lightweight differentiable Levenberg-Marquardt camera refinement layer to enhance multi-view consistency and geometric alignment. Moreover, to stabilize learning under sparse, unposed inputs, we transfer multi-view geometry priors from a large visual-geometry foundation model via teacher-student distillation. Finally, the predicted Gaussian maps are streamed with video codecs to remote devices for interactive free-viewpoint rendering. Together, these designs form a balanced pipeline between efficiency and fidelity. Extensive experiments show that Tele360 achieves state-of-the-art visual quality on studio benchmarks while supporting real-time 2K input-to-rendering at over 25 FPS on a single consumer GPU. Additional captured sequences illustrate its performance across varied subjects, clothing, and motions under our multi-camera setup. Inference code and pretrained weights will be released.
Authors
- Hanzhang Tu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7555-9546)
- Wei Min (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-4736)
- Zhanfeng Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3337-3993)
- Jiajun Zhang
- Yebin Liu
Institutions
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Published
- 2026-11-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3842578
- Primary Topic
- 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00