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Basics
| Name | Jack Saunders |
| Label | PhD Student | Research Scientist |
| jacksaunders909@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://jacksaunders909.github.io/ |
| Summary | Final Year (I Hope) PhD Student working on Style and Speech in Facial Animation. I have also worked as an intern at Epic Games, the first Employee at DeepReel, and I will intern at Microsoft this summer. I also communicate around lip-sync/talking face/deepfake models through the company I founded called RealSyncAI |
Work
- 2024.06 - 2024.09
- 2024.04 - N/A
Founder
RealSync AI
I founded RealSync to help with my efforts to communicate around lip-sync/talking face/deepfake models.
- Science Communication
- Lip-sync
- Talking Face
- Deepfake Models
- 2022.05 - 2024.05
Reearch Scientist (Part-time)
DeepReel
As employee number 1 at DeepReel, I designed and implemented DeepReel's AI Avatar Techoology.
- Lip-sync
- Talking Face
- AI Avatars
- 2021.11 - 2022.05
Reearch Intern
Epic Games
My internship project involved creating a style transfer model for facial animation.
- Style Transfer
- Facial Animation
- 3D Facial Animation
Education
Awards
- 2019.06.01
E T Davis Prize for Pure Mathematics
University of Southampton
Awarded to the student with the highest mark in Pure Mathematics in the final year of the BSc Mathematics course.
Publications
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November 2023 READ Avatars: Realistic Emotion-controllable Audio Driven Avatars
The 34th British Machine Vision Conference
We condition neural texture models on emotion and improve the realism of audio-driven avatars with an adversarial loss.
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April 2024 FACTS: Facial Animation Creation using the Transfer of Styles
45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics
Given an input 3D Facial animation, we create novel facial animations by edit stylistic characteristics, for example changing the emotion or personality of the character.
Skills
| Facial Animation | Lip-Sync | Talking Face etc | |
| Differntiable Rendering | |
| Neural Texture Models | |
| Style Transfer | |
| Generative Models | |
| GAN's | |
| Diffusion | |
| Transformers |
| Python |
Languages
| English | |
| Native Speaker |
Interests
| Faces |