About

I am Hyunsoo Cha, a PhD student at Seoul National University, advised by Prof. Hanbyul Joo. I will be joining NVIDIA AMRI as a Research Scientist Intern starting July 2026.

My long-term research goal is to build virtual worlds in which humans and intelligent agents seamlessly interact, with agents that perceive, represent, and meaningfully assist people in their everyday lives. Toward this vision, I develop generative models that capture the richness of human appearance, motion, and behavior, serving as a foundation for embodied agents that can truly understand and collaborate with people.

News

  • Jul 2026 Starting as a Research Scientist Intern at NVIDIA AMRI, 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)
Santa Clara, CA, USA · Jul 2026 -
Intern
Hwaseong, Korea · Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

Publications

Vanast: Virtual Try-On with Human Image Animation via Synthetic Triplet Supervision
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.

Animation Generative Models Virtual Try-On
Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer
ICLR, 2026

Durian: Dual Reference Image-Guided Portrait Animation with Attribute Transfer

Hyunsoo Cha, Byungjun Kim, Hanbyul Joo

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.

Animation Appearance Editing Generative Models Virtual Try-On
PERSE: Personalized 3D Generative Avatars from A Single Portrait
CVPR, 2025

PERSE: Personalized 3D Generative Avatars from A Single Portrait

Hyunsoo Cha, Inhee Lee, Hanbyul Joo

A method for building an animatable personalized generative avatar from a reference portrait.

3D Avatar Appearance Editing Generative Models Virtual Try-On
PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributes
CVPR, 2024

PEGASUS: Personalized Generative 3D Avatars with Composable Attributes

Hyunsoo Cha, Byungjun Kim, Hanbyul Joo

A method for constructing a personalized generative 3D face avatar from monocular videos.

3D Avatar Appearance Editing