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I'm a research scientist @Meta in Pittsburgh where I work on audio-visual modeling for photorealistic avatars.

Joined June 2020
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‼️500h of 3D motion data released‼️ Our team at the Codec Avatars Lab just released a large scale dataset of 3D tracked human motion, including audio and text annotations. Check it out here: meta.com/emerging-tech/codec…
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Join our team for an internship in 2025!
Looking for a research internship in 2025? The Social AI Research group at Meta’s Codec Avatars Lab in Pittsburgh is offering topics such as neural rendering, body tracking, motion synthesis, and animation from multimodal sensor inputs. Link: metacareers.com/jobs/8226528…
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Working on your next big speech paper but still looking for a suitable dataset? Check out EARS: 100h of full-band expressive, anechoic recordings of speech from 107 speakers with 22 different emotions, 7 different reading styles, and more. sp-uhh.github.io/ears_datase…
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If you're at #CVPR2024 this week, don't miss talking to @AlexRichardCS we are hiring for postdoctoral and full time positions! metacareers.com/jobs/3800242… metacareers.com/jobs/8033091…
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Want to make computers that can see *and* hear? Come to the Sight and Sound workshop on Monday, 6/17 at #CVPR2024! Schedule: sightsound.org Invited talks by: @HildeKuehne, @ShyamGollakota, @RuohanGao1, @TengdaHan, @SamuelPClarke, @AlexRichardCS
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📢Curious about the future of 3D scene understanding? Join us at the 1st Workshop on Multimodalities for 3D Scenes @CVPR! Learn about the latest research on using vision, audio, touch, and language to understand 3D scenes around us. 📅June 17, 1:30-5:20PM multimodalitiesfor3dscenes.g…
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We have 4 amazing speakers (@xiaolonw, @andrewhowens, @KaterinaFragiad, Linda Smith) to cover different modalities, from vision, language, robotics, touch, and cognitive science. Co-organizing with Angel Chang, @_krishna_murthy, @AlexRichardCS, Kristen Grauman. #AI #CVPR
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Real Acoustic Fields are here! Check out or dataset of densely captured room impulse responses paired with multi-view images! See you all on CVPR :) project page: facebookresearch.github.io/r… arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2403.18821
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Always good to see the progress we’re making in our labs in NYC and (in the case of these photos) Pittsburgh...
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Motion generation for photorealistic avatars? Say no more! Check out how we animate full body avatars exclusively from audio input! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.01885 Project page: people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ev… Dataset + Code: github.com/facebookresearch/…
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3D body models now have sound! We demonstrate 3D spatial audio synthesis for 3D full body models. (NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight) Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=zQTi3p… Dataset + Code (to be released): github.com/facebookresearch/…
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Work done in collaboration with @AlexRichardCS, @ovrdr, Vamsi Ithapu, @NataliaNeverova, Kristen Grauman, and Andrea Vedaldi @MetaAI @RealityLabs The poster session is Tues-PM and I will also give a talk at the sight and sound workshop Monday 4:30pm.
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A new generalized and universal audio-visual speech enhancement model, powered by SSL. A single model for denoising, source sep, inpainting and lip-reading! Checkout the paper and demo video!! 🗣️🤖🔊 More details below with @mhnt1580
📢New paper We are announcing ReVISE, the first universal audio-visual speech enhancement model powered by SSL. paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2212.11377.pdf demo: wnhsu.github.io/ReVISE w/ @adiyossLC @TalRemez @BowenSh08204149 @_JacobDonley
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Diffused Heads: Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Talking-Face Generation abs: arxiv.org/abs/2301.03396 project page: mstypulkowski.github.io/diff…
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📢Excited to share our recent #ECCV2022 paper: "LiP-Flow: Learning Inference-Time Priors for Codec Avatars via Normalizing Flows in Latent Space" with Shugao Ma, @akcalakcal, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, @AlexRichardCS, Shih-En Wei, Jason Saragih and @OHilliges.
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Happy to be on the list of outstanding reviewers for @eccvconf with my dear friends and coworkers @aayushbansal and @c_richardt Congratulations!
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**Dataset Release!** We released high-quality 3D face data of 13 persons captured with up to 150 cameras while performing 100+ facial expressions! github.com/facebookresearch/…
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Photorealistic 3D avatars for everyone?! Check out this exciting work from our lab in Pittsburgh! tinyurl.com/4xk25spe
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Check out our @CVPR 2022 oral, presenting a new paradigm for audio-visual speech enhancement! We demonstrate high-quality results with a guarantee that noise can not bleed through. On top, the system allows for simultaneous voice conversion. arxiv.org/abs/2203.17263
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