  We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating
high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging
results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object
generation, generating high-quality human avatars remains an open challenge due
to the complexity of the human body's shape, pose, and appearance. We propose
DreamAvatar to tackle this challenge, which utilizes a trainable NeRF for
predicting density and color for 3D points and pretrained text-to-image
diffusion models for providing 2D self-supervision. Specifically, we leverage
the SMPL model to provide shape and pose guidance for the generation. We
introduce a dual-observation-space design that involves the joint optimization
of a canonical space and a posed space that are related by a learnable
deformation field. This facilitates the generation of more complete textures
and geometry faithful to the target pose. We also jointly optimize the losses
computed from the full body and from the zoomed-in 3D head to alleviate the
common multi-face ''Janus'' problem and improve facial details in the generated
avatars. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that DreamAvatar significantly
outperforms existing methods, establishing a new state-of-the-art for
text-and-shape guided 3D human avatar generation.
