AHOY! Animatable Humans under Occlusion from YouTube Videos with Gaussian Splatting and Video Diffusion Priors

ArXi:2603.17975v1 Announce Type: new We present AHOY, a method for reconstructing complete, animatable 3D Gaussian avatars from in-the-wild monocular video despite heavy occlusion. Existing methods assume unoccluded input-a fully visible subject, often in a canonical pose-excluding the vast majority of real-world footage where people are routinely occluded by furniture, objects, or other people. Reconstructing from such footage poses fundamental challenges: large body regions may never be observed, and multi-view supervision per pose is unavailable.