4 papers
GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors
Jack Saunders, Charlie Hewitt, Yanan Jian +8
Gaussian Splatting has changed the game for real-time photo-realistic rendering. One of the most popular applications of Gaussian Splatting is to create animatable avatars, known a…
SympCam: Remote Optical Measurement of Sympathetic Arousal
Björn Braun, Daniel McDuff, Tadas Baltrusaitis +3
Recent work has shown that a person's sympathetic arousal can be estimated from facial videos alone using basic signal processing. This opens up new possibilities in the field of t…
SimpleEgo: Predicting Probabilistic Body Pose from Egocentric Cameras
Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez, Charlie Hewitt, Sadegh Aliakbarian +1
Our work addresses the problem of egocentric human pose estimation from downwards-facing cameras on head-mounted devices (HMD). This presents a challenging scenario, as parts of th…
Video-based sympathetic arousal assessment via peripheral blood flow estimation
Bjoern Braun, Daniel McDuff, Tadas Baltrusaitis +1
Electrodermal activity (EDA) is considered a standard marker of sympathetic activity. However, traditional EDA measurement requires electrodes in steady contact with the skin. Can…