Yuliang Xiu 修宇亮 Westlake University xiuyuliang westlake.edu.cn |

Biography I have joined Westlake University (AI) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and lead 远兮实验室 (endless.do) as PI. We are hiring (Postdocs, 26 Fall PhDs, RAs, Visitors), please check out more details at Group Page I obtained my PhD from Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), with Michael J. Black and Dimitrios Tzionas. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (MSCA) of CLIPE (ESR 11), I work on Democratizing Human-centric Digitization in computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning. Human-centric. Human is the measure of all things As intellectual beings, humans shape the world to our will. If we agree that pursuing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is valuable -- where agents can perform any intellectual task as well as or better than us, then learning skillsets through simulating lifelike virtual humans could be a critical baby step. Digitization. What I cannot create, I do not understand Compared to text and images, the digitization of the 3D world is underdeveloped due to the costly and time-consuming process of capturing or synthesizing. Specifically, the challenge of creating 3D digital humans with photorealistic appearances, lifelike movements, and faithful personalities in a scalable manner remains unresolved. Democratization. Immortality stems from generalization I am always intrigued by ideas that are conceptually intuitive yet practically applicable. Great models should be truly generalizable, scalable on large-scale raw data, accessible to the general public, and ultimately benefit all of humanity. I was briefly enrolled (2019.9-2020.10) as a Ph.D. student in Vision and Graphics Lab at University of Southern California, advised by Hao Li. I got M.Sc. degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019, working in Machine Vision and Intelligence Group, advised by Cewu Lu, and got B.Eng. degree in Digital Media Technology at Shandong University in 2016, worked closely with Lu Wang. I spent wonderful time at USC Institute for Creative Technology with Jun Xing, Kwai Y-tech with Chongyang Ma, LightChaser Animation Studio with Xinxin Zhang, Ubisoft La Forge, and Meta Reality Labs with Shunsuke Saito.

Invited Talks

• 数字永生 (LifeLong Avatars) [Slides]
USTC Summer School, Tecent&AnySyn3D, CCF CAD/CG 2025, CSIG青年科学家会议, PKU, HKUST(GZ)
• USTC Summer School, University of Science and Technology of China, hosted by Ligang Liu
• Tecent & AnySyn3D, hosted by Cheng Lin
• CSIG青年科学家会议, hosted by Juyong Zhang
• CCF CAD/CG 2025, hosted by Hongwen Zhang
• Peking University, hosted by Wenzheng Chen
• HKUST(GZ), hosted by Zeke Xie
• PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albums [ Slides (215MB)]
CMU, Tsinghua, GAMES
• Carnegie Mellon Graphics Lab, hosted by Minchen Li
• GAMES Webinar, hosted by Yichao Yan
• Tsinghua University, Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), hosted by Hao Zhao
• Democratizing Human Digitization [ Slides (122MB)]
TAMU, Westlake, ZJU, JHU
• Texas A&M University, Guest Lecture at CSCE 689 Special Topics: Generative AI, hosted by Zhengzhong Tu
• Westlake University, hosted by Xiaofei Li
• Zhejiang University, hosted by Tianyu Du
• Johns Hopkins University, hosted by Zongwei Zhou and Yaoyao Liu
• Human Digitization from Pixels and Tokens
Google Research, Cornell, Tsinghua, IDEA
• Google Research, hosted by Thiemo Alldieck
• Cornell University, hosted by Ruolin Ye
• Tsinghua University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), hosted by Li Yi
• International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), Computer Vision and Robotics, hosted by Ailing Zeng
• Towards Large-scale Human Digitization: Implicit or Explicit? [ Slides (75MB),  Video (30 min)]
  Taichi, PKU, CUHK, UCLA, ETH Zurich, SDU, CAS, Shanghai AI Lab, BIGAI, Huawei

  • Taichi Graphics(太极大讲堂), hosted by Tiantian Liu and Qing Yan
  • Huawei (CG&XR武林大会), hosted by Shiqi Zhou
  • Huawei (稼先社区&藤蔓技术论坛), hosted by Tao Bai
  • ETH Zurich, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Lab, hosted by Shengyu Huang
  • BIGAI, Beijing Institute for General Artifical Intelligence, hosted by Yixin Chen
  • Shanghai AI Laboratory, Content Generation and Digitization Group, hosted by Bo Dai
  • UCLA, Multi-Physics Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulations (MultiPLES) Laboratory, hosted by Ziyin Qu
  • Shandong University, Interdisciplinary Research Center & Taishan College, hosted by Haisen Zhao
  • Shandong University, Research Center of Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality, hosted by Lu Wang
  • CUHK, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), GAP Lab, hosted by Xiaoguang Han
  • ICT CAS, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosted by Lin Gao and Jie Yang
  • Peking University, the School of Artificial Intelligence, hosted by Siyan Dong and Baoquan Chen
• 如何多快好省地重建三维数字人 [ TechBeat (40 min)]
• 走进马克思普朗克智能系统研究所与苏黎世联邦理工AIT团队 [  Part A (2h),  Part B (2h)]
• ICON: 提高三维数字人重建的姿势水平 [ Keynote (726MB),  Video (60 min)]
• Talking Papers Podcast: ICON [Link]
• Towards Large-scale Avatar Creation From In-the-wild Pixels [ Slides, 25MB]
  Meta, USC, OPPO, Tecent, Adobe

  • Meta Reality Labs, Pittsburgh, hosted by Shunsuke Saito and Giljoo Nam
  • USC-ICT, USC Institute for Creative Technology, hosted by Yajie Zhao
  • Adobe, Digital Humans Seminar, hosted by Yi Zhou
  • OPPO, US Research Center, hosted by Xudong Liu and Guojun Qi
  • Tecent, GY-Lab(光影研究室), hosted by Chao Xu and Gang Yu
• Pose trajectory extraction and novel-view synthesis from visual content [Link]
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, hosted by Siyu Tang

Academic Service

• Computer Graphics (CG):
  • Conference Reviewer: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics
  • Journal Reviewer: TVCG, TOG
• Computer Vision (CV):
  • Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NeurIPS, 3DV, ACM Multimedia, Neurocomputing
  • Journal Reviewer: T-PAMI, TIP， Computers & Graphics
  • Area Chair: ICLR (2026), CVPR (2026), ICCV (2025), 3DV (2025), WACV (2025)
  • Publicity Chair: 3DV (2025)
  • Workshop Organizer:
  • Foundation Models for 3D Humans (ECCV'24)

Blogs & Medias

• Blog CVPR'23 (Highlight) | ECON: 一个数字人，显式隐式各自表述  
• Blog CVPR 2022 | ICON: 提高三维数字人重建的姿势水平  
• Translation 当我们谈科学研究的创新性时，我们在谈些什么  Source   译文 
• NYTimes"See How Kansas City Secured Its Comeback", ICON for Super Bowl 2023
• NYTimes "Modeling Key World Cup Moments with Machine Learning", ICON for World Cup 2022
• ACMSIGGRAPH "Broadcast From Around the World", MonoPort wins SIGGRAPH 2020 Real-Time Live