Meta-commerce in the Age of Avatars

19 June 2022

35:38

In this short 20 minute talk, I introduce the idea of meta-commerce and the role of avatars in enabling a blurring between the physical and virtual worlds. In doing so, I summarize recent work from my department on creating and animating full-body and facial avatars from images and video. The talk is aimed at a general (not expert) audience that is familiar with computer vision and machine learning. This talk was given at the Retail Vision workshop at CVPR 2022, https://retailvisionworkshop.github.io/ Links to the CVPR'22 work described here: BEV: https://github.com/Arthur151/ROMP SHAPY: https://shapy.is.tue.mpg.de/ EMOCA: https://emoca.is.tue.mpg.de/ gDNA: https://xuchen-ethz.github.io/gdna/ IMAvatar: https://ait.ethz.ch/projects/2022/IMavatar/ ICON: https://icon.is.tue.mpg.de/