Xiaodong Cun（寸晓东）

Assistant Professor, SCIT, Great Bay University
Researcher, Tencent ARC Lab
cun [AT] gbu.edu.cn
Hi there!
Xiaodong Cun
I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Great Bay University. I also works part-time as a Research Scientist at Tencent Arc Lab. My main research interests include Visual Computing, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
I am known for my open-sourced papers/projects on Portrait Video Generation (e.g., SadTalker, VideoReTalking, PersonaLive), Video Generation and Editing (e.g., VideoCrafer series, FateZero) and Generative Network Architecture (e.g., Uformer). They totally earn more than 30k stars on the Github.
Before joining GBU in 2024, I was a Research Scientist at Tencent AI Lab from 2021 to 2024. I receieved my PhD degree from University of Macau in 2021, and my B.S. degree from Xidian University in 2015.
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SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation

SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation

Wenxuan Zhang 🧑‍💻, Xiaodong Cun 🧑‍💻, Xuan Wang, Yong Zhang, Xi Shen, Yu Guo, Ying Shan, Fei Wang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
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Top 10 you won't miss paper of CVPR 2023 (voxel51.com).
Top 10 Most Github Star CVPR paper (github.com).
VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild

VideoReTalking: Audio-based Lip Synchronization for Talking Head Video Editing In the Wild

Kun Cheng 🧑‍💻, Xiaodong Cun 🧑‍💻📮, Yong Zhang, Menghan Xia, Fei Yin, Mingrui Zhu, Xuan Wang, Jue Wang, Nannan Wang
SIGGRAPH Asia (Conference Track), 2022
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Top 10 Most Github Star SIGGRAPH paper (github.com).
VideoCrafter1 & VideoCrafter2

VideoCrafter1 & VideoCrafter2

Haoxin Chen 🧑‍💻, Menghan Xia 🧑‍💻, Yong Zhang 🧑‍💻, Xiaodong Cun🧑‍💻,Xintao Wang, Ying Shan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) & Technical report, 2024
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Most Influential Papers of ArXiv 24 (paperdigest.org).
PersonaLive! Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming

PersonaLive! Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming

Zhiyuan Li, Chi-Man Pun📮, Chen Fang, Jue Wang, Xiaodong Cun📮
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
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Github 1k+ Star.
FateZero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-shot Text-based Video Editing

FateZero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-shot Text-based Video Editing

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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ICCV 23 Oral Presentation (2.3%)
Most Influential Papers of ICCV 23 (paperdigest.org).
Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration

Uformer: A General U-Shaped Transformer for Image Restoration

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
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Most Influential Papers of CVPR 22 (paperdigest.org).
Follow Your Pose: Pose-Guided Text-to-Video Generation using Pose-Free Videos

Follow Your Pose: Pose-Guided Text-to-Video Generation using Pose-Free Videos

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
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Most Influential Papers of AAAI 24 (paperdigest.org).

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