Yuliang Xiu 修宇亮

2nd Year CS Ph.D. Student
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Perceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany

yuliang.xiu tuebingen.mpg.de

About Me

I am currently a 2nd-Year Ph.D. student in Computer Science, working in Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, with Michael J. Black. Image/video-based holistic modeling for the animation of body, face, hands, feet, clothing, and interaction (ESR 11), is part of the CLIPE initiative, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860768.

I was briefly enrolled as a Ph.D. student, advised by Hao Li (Now the CEO and Co-founder of Pinscreen), in Vision and Graphics Lab at University of Southern California before I decided to relocate to Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tuebingen. I got my M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019, working in Machine Vision and Intelligence Group, advised by Cewu Lu. And I got my B.Eng. degree in Digital Media Technology at Shandong University in 2016, advised by Lu Wang.

Regarding the industrial experience, I spent wonderful time at USC Institute for Creative Technology with Jun Xing (Now the lead researcher of miHoYo), Kwai Y-tech Graphics AI Team with Chongyang Ma, LightChaser Animation Studio with Xinxin Zhang (Now the Co-founder and CTO of Zenus), and will intern at Ubisoft La Forge soon.

What Drives Me

I am a Virtual Avatar Researcher, playing with pixels and voxels. My research interest mainly lies in the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics, especially in 3D Human Digitalization (e.g. Reconstruction, Modeling, Animation, Simulation, and Rendering) and 2D Human Behavior Analysis (e.g. Keypoint Estimation and Tracking).

Feel free to contact me for inter/intra-topic discussion and collaboration (remotely).

News & Updates

[2022/01/13] I will work as research internship at Ubisoft La Forge from March to July.
[2021/12/17] New work "ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals", please check here.
[2020/09/01] Get admitted to CLIPE ESR11 and will be joining Michael Black's team at MPI for Intelligent Systems.
[2020/08/26] "Volumetric Human Teleportation" won Best in Show Award of SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live 2020!
[2020/08/25] Project-Splinter: Human Digitalization with Implicit Representation is launched!
[2020/07/02] Our "Monoport: Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Teleportation" work was accepted by ECCV 2020
[2020/05/08] Our "Volumetric Human Teleportation" demo was accepted by SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live 2020
[2019/03/03] I will be joining USC CS Ph.D. Program in fall 2019, advised by Hao Li
[2019/01/24] I gave an invited talk at MPI for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems department.

Publications

3D Clothed Avatar Reconstruction and Modeling
2D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking

	Yuliang Xiu, Jinlong Yang, Dimitrios Tzionas, Michael J. Black ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals arXiv Preprint 2021 Abstract Home arXiv Q&A Video 汉化 Bibtex
	Yuliang Xiu, Ruilong Li, Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Kyle Olszewski, Hao Li (equal contribution) Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture* European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020) Abstract Home arXiv Q&A Video 汉化 Zhihu Bibtex
	Ruilong Li, Kyle Olszewski, Yuliang Xiu, Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Hao Li Volumetric Human Teleportation SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live 2020 (Best in Show Award) Abstract Home Paper Q&A Video Media ( 1, 2, 3, 4) Bibtex
	Yuliang Xiu, Jiefeng Li, Haoyu Wang, Yinghong Fang, Cewu Lu Pose Flow: Efficient Online Pose Tracking British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2018) Abstract arXiv Q&A 汉化 Zhihu Bibtex
	Zhijian Liu, Bowen Pan, Yuliang Xiu, Cewu Lu PoseHD: Boosting Human Detectors using Human Pose Information AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018) Abstract Paper Bibtex

Selected Projects

ICON Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals
MonoPort Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture
AlphaPose Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking
PoseFlow Efficient Online Pose Tracking
MobilePose Tiny 2D pose estimator on the mobile device
NASA PyTorch implementation of "NASA: Neural Articulated Shape Approximation"

Services

Reviewer of T-PAMI, CVPR

Media Coverage

Scholarships

Sep 2020 Three Year Ph.D. Scholarship of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in Horizon 2020
Jan 2019 Four Year Annenberg Fellowship Viterbi School of Engineering at USC (2019-2022)
Oct 2017 Excellent Graduate Student Scholarship (Top 10% in the computer science department)
Aug 2015 National Scholarship (The highest honor for undergraduates, top 2% nationwide)
Jun 2015 Dean's List Award (Baoquan Chen Scholarship, Top 5 of all grades in the computer science department)
Dec 2013 & Dec 2014 & Dec 2015 First Prize Scholarship (Top 6% in China, three-year continuous)

Honors and Awards

June 2017 Silver Winner of Quora Question Pairs Competition in Kaggle (Global top 4%, 121/3307)
June 2017 Copper Winner of YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge in Kaggle (Global top 14%, 92/655)
Apr 2015 Meritorious Winner in 2015 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM, Global top 9%)

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