4 papers
VoluMe -- Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction
Martin de La Gorce, Charlie Hewitt, Tibor Takacs +6
Virtual 3D meetings offer the potential to enhance copresence, increase engagement and thus improve effectiveness of remote meetings compared to standard 2D video calls. However, r…
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…
Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification
Givi Meishvili, James Clemoes, Charlie Hewitt +9
We present a method for prediction of a person's hairstyle from a single image. Despite growing use cases in user digitization and enrollment for virtual experiences, available met…
Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle
Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian +8
We tackle the problem of highly-accurate, holistic performance capture for the face, body and hands simultaneously. Motion-capture technologies used in film and game production typ…