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Yuliang Xiu 修宇亮2nd Year CS Ph.D. StudentMax Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsPerceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany yuliang.xiu tue.mpg.de |
About MeI 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. My Ph.D. topic is Image/video-based holistic modeling for the animation of body, face, hands, feet, clothing, and interaction (ESR 11), which is part of the CLIPE initiative.I was briefly enrolled (2019-2020) as a Ph.D. student in Vision and Graphics Lab at University of Southern California before I decided to relocate at Tuebingen, advised by Hao Li (Now the CEO and Co-founder of Pinscreen). 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 also 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 (Now the research manager heading Y-Tech), LightChaser Animation Studio with Xinxin Zhang (Now the co-founder and CTO of Zenus), and is working as R&D intern at Ubisoft La Forge. |
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 (i.e., Reconstruction, Modeling, Animation) and 2D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking.Feel free to contact me for academic / industrial collaboration.






News & Annocement
[2022/04/20] Invited to talk about ICON at Talking Papers Podcast. Great chat with Yizhak Ben-Shabat!
[2022/04/07] 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 视频(中文) [上, 下].
[2022/03/02] ICON got accepted by CVPR 2022 → Reader Discord
[2022/02/08] I will serve as a reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2022!
[2022/02/01] I am invited to give Tech Talks by USC-ICT, and Meta Reality Labs, Pittsburgh (PDF, 21MB).
[2022/01/30] The code and models of ICON are released, feel free to play with it.
[2022/01/13] I will intern at Ubisoft La Forge, Bordeaux during this summer in France.
[2021/12/17] New work "ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals", please check its page.
[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.
[2022/04/07] 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 视频(中文) [上, 下].
[2022/03/02] ICON got accepted by CVPR 2022 → Reader Discord
[2022/02/08] I will serve as a reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2022!
[2022/02/01] I am invited to give Tech Talks by USC-ICT, and Meta Reality Labs, Pittsburgh (PDF, 21MB).
[2022/01/30] The code and models of ICON are released, feel free to play with it.
[2022/01/13] I will intern at Ubisoft La Forge, Bordeaux during this summer in France.
[2021/12/17] New work "ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals", please check its page.
[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 Avatar Reconstruction and Modeling
- 2D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking
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Yuliang
Xiu, Jinlong
Yang, Dimitrios
Tzionas, Michael
J. Black
ICON: Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 (CVPR 2022) Abstract Home arXiv Q&A Video [En, 中] Zhihu Bibtex |
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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 Zhihu Bibtex |
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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 |
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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 Zhihu Bibtex |
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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"
Invited Talks
- 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 (Link)
- 上集:冯瑶,修宇亮,孙宇,易鸿伟,黄俊豪 Video (2h)
- 下集:马千里,陈旭,郑羽丰,董子健 Video (2h)
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ICON: 提高三维数字人重建的姿势水平 (Keynote, 726MB)
- 机器之心-人工智能技术社区 Video (60 min)
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Towards Large-scale Avatar Creation From In-the-wild Pixels (PDF, 21MB)
- Meta Reality Labs (Pittsburgh), hosted by Shunsuke Saito and Giljoo Nam
- USC Institute for Creative Technology, hosted by Yajie Zhao
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Pose trajectory extraction and novel-view synthesis from visual content (Link)
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, hosted by Siyu Tang
Services
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Reviewer of:
- Journal: T-PAMI / SIGGRAPH 2022
- Conference: CVPR 2022 / ECCV 2022
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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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