Apple has released a research paper discussing what it calls HUGS, a generative AI technology that can create a digital human avatar from a brief video in about 30 minutes.
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Released via Apple’s Machine Learning Research page and shared by Apple researcher Anurag Ranjan on X, “HUGS: Human Gaussian Splats” discusses techniques to create digital avatars of humans. Using machine learning and computer vision, the research details the creation process, using relatively little source material.
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