One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on Digital Humans
Wednesday 28 May 2025
Chairs: Jack Saunders (University of Bath), Avirup Dey (University of Bath), Vinay Namboodiri (University of Bath), Soubhik Sanyal (Meta).
Invited Speakers
- Tadas Baltrušaitis, Principal Scientist, Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI lab
- Abhijeet Ghosh, Professor of Graphics & Imaging, Imperial College London.
- Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Research Scientist at Reality Lab Research, Meta.
- Gerard Pons-Moll, Professor at University of Tübingen.
- Dimitris Tzionas, Assistant Professor for 3D Computer Vision at University of Amsterdam.
Overview of the Meeting
We’re looking to bring together researchers and engineers across academia and industry for a one-day meeting covering everything to do with Digital Humans and Avatars. Some example areas include, but are not limited to:
- 3D Morphable Models
- Avatar Generation
- Animation methods
- Biomechanics
- Digital Humans for Medical Applications
- Human and Object Interactions
- Human and Scene interactions
- Lip Sync Models
- Motion Generation
- Neural Rendering for Faces/Bodies
- Optimisation and Registration
- Performance Capture/MoCap
- Relighting Humans
- Skeleton and Muscle Modeling
- Talking Head Generation
- Virtual Try-on
Programme
| Start | End | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | 09:45 | Registration/Poster Set-up + Coffee | ||
| 09:45 | 09:50 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 09:50 | 10:35 | Invited Keynote Speaker - Tadas Baltrusaitis | ||
| 10:35 | 11:15 | Accepted Talks Pt. 1 - Motion and Perception | ||
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Coffee Break + Posters | ||
| 11:45 | 12:25 | Accepted Talks Pt. 1 - Modelling | ||
| 12:25 | 13:25 | Lunch + Posters | ||
| 13:25 | 14:10 | Invited Keynote Speaker - Thu Nguyen-Phuoc | ||
| 14:10 | 14:55 | Invited Keynote Speaker - Dimitris Tzionas | ||
| 14:55 | 15.25 | Coffee Break + Posters | ||
| 15:25 | 16:10 | Invited Keynote Speaker - Abhijeet Ghosh | ||
| 16:10 | 16:55 | Invited Keynote Speaker - Gerard Pons-Moll | ||
| 16:55 | 17:00 | Closing Remarks |
Accepted Talks
Oral 1: Motion, Perception and Data:
Muscle-Aware Motion Prediction with Digital Humans, Yu-Hui Huang
EIFER: Electromyography-Informed Facial Expression Reconstruction, Tim Bochner
AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones, Eva Krumhuber
Infinite-Realities Datasets, Henry Pearce
Oral 2: Modelling:
3D-Consistent Generative Head Model Using Gaussian Splatting, Neeraj Veerla
ARC-Flow: Articulated, Resolution-Agnostic, Correspondence-Free Matching & Interpolation of 3D Shapes, Adam Hartshorne
HandSplat: High-Fidelity and Real-Time Animatable 3D Hand with Gaussian Splatting, Yilan Dong
4D Modelling from Monocular Video, Armin Mustafa
Meeting Location
The meeting will take place at:
British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP
Registration
We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows
- All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day