Kiran Chhatre

DOCTORAL STUDENT

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolanhttps://www.kth.se/profile/chhatre

Works for

DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Address

LINDSTEDTSVÄGEN 5

E-mail

chhatre@kth.se

Room

4427

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About me

Computer Vision for 3D Digital Humans

(Updated March 2024)

My research addresses the challenges of designing new techniques to create and control interactive virtual characters. I am working towards developing deep learning models enabling characters to exhibit appropriate behaviors in social interaction settings involving small groups, including adaptation to the style and manner of the interlocutor to support the smoothness of interaction and 'social bonding'. I am affiliated with Embodied Social Agents Lab and supervised by Christopher Peters and Jonas Beskow. I am funded by the EU MSCA ITN CLIPE project.

I have completed a master's degree from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a bachelor's degree from the COEP Technological University, Pune India.

News

🚩Program Committee of CLIPE workshop @ Eurographics 2024, Limassol Cyprus. I present a talk on "Adaptive communicative social behaviors for virtual characters in small conversational groups".

🚩Research Ph.D. Intern with Adobe Research (April 2024 - present)

🚩We present AMUSE: Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion @ CVPR 2024 [Paper, Web, Code]

🚩 We present EMOTE: Emotional Speech-Driven Animation with Content-Emotion Disentanglement @ SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023 [Paper, Web, Code]

🚩 I present a talk on "Virtual Characters in Small Conversational Groups" hosted by Prof Carol O'Sullivan at Trinity College Dublin. (22 February 2024)

🚩Guest researcher with MPI Perceiving Systems, Tübingen (September 2022 - present)

🚩 We present BEAMBayesOpt: Parallel Bayesian Optimization of Agent-based Transportation Simulation @ LOD 2022/ LNCS [Paper, Code, Wiki, Special Mentions]

🚩 Ph.D. internship with Ubisoft La Forge, Bordeaux (March - June 2022).

🚩 We present Modeling Groups of Conversational Agents and Tools for Virtual Crowds and Characters @ Summer School on Virtual Humans, Cyprus.

🚩We present Spatio-temporal priors in 3D human motion @ IEEE ICDL StEPP 2021 workshop.

🚩We present TEDxKTH Salon: AI – what should we focus on?

🚩Our Medium blog on Representation learning — The core of machine learning.

🚩We present the EU report on Social Group Formation in Virtual Environments.

🚩Our podcast with KTH AI Society on Natural Language Processing.

🚩Our webinar on Contrastive Learning for Visual Representations.

🚩Our webinar on Data-driven Motion Generation.