Biography

I am currently a 3rd-Year CS Ph.D. student (2020.11 - Now), working in Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), with Michael J. Black. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (MSCA) of CLIPE (ESR 11), my Ph.D. topic is Image/video-based holistic modeling for the animation of body, face, hands, feet, clothing, and interaction.

I was briefly enrolled (2019-2020) 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 (USC-ICT) with Shunsuke Saito and Jun Xing, at Kwai Y-tech Graphics AI with Chongyang Ma, at LightChaser Animation Studio with Xinxin Zhang, and at Ubisoft La Forge.
As a Digital Human Researcher, I am focused on exploring the realms of 2D pixels and 3D voxels, revolving around the nexus of computer vision and graphics, particularly on Pixel-based/Text-guided 3D Human Digitization (incl. reconstruction, modeling, rendering and animation) and the estimation and tracking of 2D human poses. The next chapter of my research will delve into Compositionality.

I am seeking for a long-term (~6 months) internship opportunity after 2024 March (CV, Email), see my works at


News

[2023/08] Invited talks "Human Digitization from Pixels and Tokens" at Google Research, Cornell, Tsinghua IIIS, and IDEA
[2023/08/21] NEW "TADA! Text to Animatable Digital Avatars" comes out, see TADA.
[2023/08/17] NEW "TeCH: Text-guided Reconstruction of Lifelike Clothed Humans" comes out, see TeCH.
[2023/07/14] NEW "D-IF: Uncertainty-aware Human Digitization via Implicit Distribution Field" (ICCV 2023), see D-IF.
[2023/01-06] Invited Talk (30 min) "Towards Large-scale Human Digitization: Implicit or Explicit?" (slides, 75MB) at industry (Taichi, Shanghai AI Lab, BIGAI, Huawei) and academia (PKU, CUHK, UCLA, ETH Zurich, SDU, CAS).
[2023/04/23] ECON won Outstanding Poster (4/80) in China 3DV.
[2023/04/16] Now both and Google Colab are available for ECON users!
[2023/03/21] ECON has been selected as CVPR highlight papers (10% of accepted papers, 2.5% of submissions).
[2023/03/15] 💕 I'm thrilled to announce that Cathy and I are finally tying the knot! 💍 Love Moment
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Publications

Representative works are highlighted.
TeCH: Text-guided Reconstruction of Lifelike Clothed Humans 

Yangyi Huang*, Yuliang Xiu*, Hongwei Yi*, Tingting Liao, Jiaxiang Tang, Deng Cai, Justus Thies
(*equal contribution)
arXiv 2023
Intro  Home  Video[En, Paper [arXiv, Reader] Bibtex 
TADA! Text to Animatable Digital Avatars 

Tingting Liao*, Hongwei Yi*, Yuliang Xiu, Jiaxiang Tang, Yangyi Huang, Justus Thies, Michael J. Black
(*equal contribution)
arXiv 2023
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Video[En, Bibtex 
D-IF: Uncertainty-aware Human Digitization via Implicit Distribution Field 

Xueting Yang*, Yihao Luo*, Yuliang Xiu, Wei Wang, Hao Xu, Zhaoxin Fan
(*equal contribution)
International Conference on Computer Vision 2023 (ICCV 2023)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Bibtex 
ECON: Explicit Clothed humans Optimized via Normal integration 
Google Colab

Yuliang Xiu, Jinlong Yang, Xu Cao, Dimitrios Tzionas, Michael J. Black
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (CVPR 2023, Highlight)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Video [En, ]  Zhihu  Bibtex 
High-Fidelity Clothed Avatar Reconstruction from a Single Image  

Tingting Liao, Xiaomei Zhang, Yuliang Xiu, Hongwei Yi, ..., Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (CVPR 2023)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Bibtex 
AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time 

Hao-shu Fang*, Jiefeng Li*, Hongyang Tang, Chao Xu, Haoyi Zhu, Yuliang Xiu, Yong-lu Li, Cewu Lu
(*equal contribution)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI 2022)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Video  Bibtex 
DART: Articulated Hand Model with Diverse Accessories and Rich Textures 

Daiheng Gao*, Yuliang Xiu*, Kailin Li*, Lixin Yang*,..., Cewu Lu, Ping Tan
(*equal contribution)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022 -Datasets and Benchmarks Track)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Video  Bibtex 
ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals 
Google Colab

Yuliang Xiu, Jinlong Yang, Dimitrios Tzionas, Michael J. Black
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 (CVPR 2022)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv, Reader] Slides  Video [En, ]  Zhihu  Bibtex 
Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture 

Ruilong Li*, Yuliang Xiu*, Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Kyle Olszewski, Hao Li
(*equal contribution)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020)
Intro  Home  Paper [arXiv , Reader] Video   Zhihu  Bibtex  
Volumetric Human Teleportation 

Ruilong Li, Kyle Olszewski, Yuliang Xiu, Shunsuke Saito, Zeng Huang, Hao Li
SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live 2020 (Best in Show Award)
Intro  Home  Paper [PDF , Reader] Video   Media ( 1, 2, 3, 4)Bibtex  
Pose Flow: Efficient Online Pose Tracking 

Yuliang Xiu, Jiefeng Li, Haoyu Wang, Yinghong Fang, Cewu Lu
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2018)
Intro  Paper [arXiv , Reader]  Zhihu  Bibtex  

Mentoring

I am fortunate to (co-)mentor a few talented and highly motivated junior students and senior engineer (alphabetical order):

Invited Talks

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