About
I am Hyunsoo Cha, a PhD student at Seoul National University, advised by Prof. Hanbyul Joo. I will be joining NVIDIA as a Research Scientist Intern starting June 2026. My research goal is to develop generative models that can understand and represent people in virtual worlds.
News
- Jun 2026 Starting as a Research Scientist Intern at NVIDIA, Santa Clara.
- Apr 2026 Vanast has been selected as a Highlight at CVPR 2026.
- Feb 2026 Vanast has been accepted to CVPR 2026.
- Jan 2026 Durian has been accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Feb 2025 PERSE has been accepted to CVPR 2025.
- Feb 2024 PEGASUS has been accepted to CVPR 2024.
- Sep 2022 Joined SNU Visual Computing Lab as an MS/PhD student.
- Jan 2022 Started as a Research Intern at SNU Visual Computing Lab.
Experience
Research Scientist Intern (Upcoming)
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, CA, USA · Jun 2026 -
Intern
DRAM Solution Team, Samsung Electronics
Hwaseong, Korea · Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Publications
CVPR, 2026
Highlight
Vanast: Virtual Try-On with Human Image Animation via Synthetic Triplet Supervision
Given a human image and one or more garment images, our method generates virtual try-on with human image animation conditioned on a pose video while preserving identity.
ICLR, 2026
Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
Given a portrait and one or more reference images specifying target attributes, Durian generates a portrait animation with attribute transfer in a single-stage pipeline.
CVPR, 2025
PERSE: Personalized 3D Generative Avatars from A Single Portrait
A method for building an animatable personalized generative avatar from a reference portrait.
CVPR, 2024
PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributes
A method for constructing a personalized generative 3D face avatar from monocular videos.