[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on Sep 29 (Zoom) -- Victor Lempitsky -- Deep Generative Models for Avatars and Landscapes -- AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

Reminder...this is tomorrow at noon.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:35 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Victor Lempitsky (Samsung) will be giving an online seminar on "Deep
> Generative Models for Avatars and Landscapes" from *12:00 noon - 01:00 PM
> ET* on Sep 29.
>
> *Zoom Link*:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99758211058?pwd=VElWMWdEVFJPdjY5R2xiWlBFdjFoZz09
>
> CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.
>
> Following are the details of the talk:
>
> *Title: *Deep Generative Models for Avatars and Landscapes
>
> *Abstract: *Deep Generative Models, in particular those based on
> adversarial learning, have achieved remarkable results at synthesizing and
> editing 2D photographs. In this talk, I will discuss how a very successful
> model of this class (StyleGAN) can be extended to two new domains. First, I
> will discuss an extension that allows to model realistic landscape
> timelapse videos. After training, the system can synthesize new landscape
> videos. The resulting model can also reenact static landscape photographs,
> and we show that such reenactments outperform previous approaches to this
> task. The second extension allows to model the full-body appearance of
> humans. Here, we combine StyleGAN with a modern deformable body model
> (SMPL-X) and a neural rendering approach into a system that can synthesize
> 3D full-body avatars from scratch or create such avatars from one or a few
> photographs.
>
>
>
> *Bio*: Victor Lempitsky leads the Samsung AI Center in Moscow as well as
> the Vision, Learning, Telepresence (VIOLET) Lab at this center. He is also
> an associate professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
> (Skoltech). In the past, Victor was a researcher at Yandex, at the Visual
> Geometry Group (VGG) of Oxford University, and at the Computer Vision group
> of Microsoft Research Cambridge. He has a Ph.D. ("kandidat nauk") degree
> from Moscow State University (2007).  Victor's research interests are in
> various aspects of computer vision and deep learning, in particular,
> generative deep learning. He has served as an area chair for top computer
> vision and machine learning conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS)
> on multiple occasions. His recent work on neural head avatars was
> recognized as the most-discussed research publication of 2019 by Altmetric
> Top 100 rating.
>
>
> To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/
>
> --
> Aayush Bansal
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
>
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