4 papers
The Ephemeral Shadow: Hyperreal Beings in Stimulative Performance
Dong Zhang, Yanjun Zhou, Jingyi Yu
The Ephemeral Shadow is an interactive art installation centered on the concept of "simulacrum," focusing on the reconstruction of subjectivity at the intersection of reality and v…
ExFace: Expressive Facial Control for Humanoid Robots with Diffusion Transformers and Bootstrap Training
Dong Zhang, Jingwei Peng, Yuyang Jiao +3
This paper presents a novel Expressive Facial Control (ExFace) method based on Diffusion Transformers, which achieves precise mapping from human facial blendshapes to bionic robot…
DreamPrinting: Volumetric Printing Primitives for High-Fidelity 3D Printing
Youjia Wang, Ruixiang Cao, Teng Xu +4
Translating the rich visual fidelity of volumetric rendering techniques into physically realizable 3D prints remains an open challenge. We introduce DreamPrinting, a novel pipeline…
Sophia-in-Audition: Virtual Production with a Robot Performer
Taotao Zhou, Teng Xu, Dong Zhang +5
We present Sophia-in-Audition (SiA), a new frontier in virtual production, by employing the humanoid robot Sophia within an UltraStage environment composed of a controllable lighti…