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Eduardo Alvarado

Eduardo Alvarado

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Department 6: Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Avatars and Human Motion
 office: Campus E1 4, Room 223
Saarland Informatics Campus
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
 email: Get my email address via email
 phone: 4555

Research Interests

  • Anatomically-accurate Human Motion Synthesis
  • Human-Scene Interactions
  • Motion Matching

Publications

FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video

Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Jian Wang, Eduardo Alvarado, Rishabh Dabral, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

Published at CVPR, 2025.

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BimArt: A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of 3D Bimanual Interaction with Articulated Objects

Wanyue Zhang, Rishabh Dabral, Vladislav Golyanik, Vasileios Choutas, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

Published at CVPR, 2025.

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TRAIL: Simulating the Impact of Human Locomotion on Natural Landscapes

Eduardo Alvarado, Oscar Argudo, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Nuria Pelechano

Published at Computer Graphics International (CGI), 2024.

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How Much Do We Pay Attention? A Comparative Study of User Gaze and Synthetic Vision during Navigation

Julia Melgare, Guido Mainardi, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Soraia Musse

Published at Motion, Interactions and Games (MIG), 2023.

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Generating Upper-Body Motion for Real-Time Characters Making their Way through Dynamic Environments

Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

Published at ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics SCA, 2022.

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

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Real-Time Locomotion on Soft Grounds with Dynamic Footprints

Eduardo Alvarado, Chloé Paliard, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani,

Published at Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Frontiers, 2022.

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A Survey on Reinforcement Learning Methods in Character Animation

Ariel Kwiatkowski, Eduardo Alvarado, Vicky Kalogeiton, Karen Liu, Julien Pettré, Michiel van de Panne, Marie-Paule Cani

Published at Eurographics, 2022.

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Soft Walks: Real-Time, Two-Ways Interaction between a Character and Loose Grounds

Chloé Paliard, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

Published at Eurographics, 2021.

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Teaching

  • October 2020 - October 2023:
    Teaching Assistant for INF633 ‑ Advanced 3D Graphics at École Polytechnique (EPX)
    Topic: Ecosystems Authoring, Procedural Animations, AI for Behavior Planning.
  • July 2021 - October 2021:
    Research Visitor ‑ CYENS Centre of Excellence
    Topic: Character Animation with focus on Motion Capture and Motion Matching.
    Supervisor: Prof. Yiorgos Chrysanthou.
  • July 2021 - October 2021:
    Research Visitor ‑ Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    Topic: Crowds Authoring in Natural Environments.
    Supervisor: Prof. Nuria Pelechano.

Recent Positions

  • January 2024 - today:
    Postdoctoral Researcher at VCAI, MPII, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • January 2024 - today:
    Ph.D. Intern, Ubisoft La Forge, Bordeaux, France
  • June 2020 - September 2020:
    Research Scientist at InstaLOD GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
  • May 2019 - November 2019:
    M.Sc. Thesis ‑ Deep Multimodal Learning for Autonomous Driving at Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany
  • September 2017 - February 2019:
    Research Assistant ‑ Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Freiburg, Germany
  • April 2018 - October 2018:
    M.Sc. Intern ‑ Dev‑tools Engineer for Autonomous Driving, Friedrichshafen, Germany

Education

  • October 2020 - December 2023:
    Ph. D. student in Computer Science at École Polytechnique (EPX), France
    Topic: Efficient Models for Human Locomotion and Interaction in Natural Environments.
    Supervisors: Prof. Damien Rohmer and Prof. Marie‑Paule Cani.
    Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research Programme. Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Grant Agreement n. 860768 (CLIPE project).
  • April 2017 - November 2019:
    M.Sc. in Embedded Systems at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
    Framework: Robotics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning.
    Thesis: Deep Multimodal Learning for Autonomous Driving.
  • September 2010 - September 2014:
    B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
    Framework: Digital/Analog Electronics, CS, Robotics and Control Engineering. Thesis: Development of a localization‑based AR framework in C++ for smart glasses.

More information about me in my Google Scholar or Personal Webpage

Hobbies

I love skiing. Every year I try to visit a different place to practice it with friends and family. I also like to keep myself regularly informed about new developments in robotics and AI, trying to get my nieces interested in them as well. In my spare time, I work on my photography portfolio and my personal blog about game‑dev. Someday I would love to create my own studio. When I get the chance, I enjoy working on electronics projects, as well as reading about fields that are new for me.