Events

Photo-realistic AI Avatars

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Nießner

Location: 60 Fifth Avenue, Room C15

Date: Monday, June 10, 2024

In this seminar, I will talk about our latest research on
creating photo-realistic AI Avatars. Here, our main goal is to create
virtual characters that can are visually indistinguishable from photos and
videos of real people. Further, we aim to control such avatars with
multi-modal control signals such as animation rigs, text, or voice in order
to replicate real-world conversations and leverage our avatars for 3D
content creation. Ultimately, we aim to witness the evolution of photos and
videos into interactive, holographic 3D content that is indistinguishable
from the physical reality. To this end, we focus on the possibility of
capturing and sharing 3D photos with friends, family, or through social
media platforms. Imagine the ability to comprehensively document historical
events along with the participating people for future generations, or to
generate content for upcoming applications in augmented and virtual reality.