Updated about, news, publications

Author: jsaunders909

_bibliography/papers.bib

@@ -12,10 +12,25 @@ @inproceedings{Saunders2023FACTS
   year      = {2024},
 }
 
-@inproceedings{Saunders2024D4E,
+@inproceedings{Saunders2024TalkLoRA,
   author    = {Saunders, Jack and Namboodiri, Vinay P.},
-  title     = {Dubbing for Everyone: Data-Efficient Visual Dubbing using Neural Rendering Priors},
-  publisher = {arxiv},
+  title     = {TalkLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation for Speech-Driven Animation},
+  publisher = {The 35th British Machine Vision Conference},
   year      = {2024},
 }
 
+@inproceedings{Saunders2025DEAD,
+  author    = {Saunders, Jack and Namboodiri, Vinay P.},
+  title     = {DEAD: Data-Efficient Audiovisual Dubbing using Neural Rendering Priors},
+  publisher = {The 36th British Machine Vision Conference},
+  year      = {2025},
+}
+
+@inproceedings{saunders2025gasp,
+  title={{GASP}: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors},
+  author={Saunders, Jack and Hewitt, Charlie and Jian, Yanan and Kowalski, Marek and Baltru\v{s}aitis, Tadas and Chen, Yiye and Cosker, Darren and Estellers, Virginia and Gyd{\'e}, Nicholas and Namboodiri, Vinay P and others},
+  booktitle={Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)},
+  pages={271--280},
+  month={June},
+  year={2025}
+}

_news/2024-07-22-Microsoft.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+layout: post
+date: 2024-07-22
+title: Microsoft Intern
+inline: false
+---
+
+I started my internship at Microsoft as a Research Science Intern.

_news/2025-02-26-CVPR.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+layout: post
+date: 2025-02-26
+title: GASP has been accepted toCVPR
+inline: false
+---
+
+Our paper, GASP, resulting from my Microsoft internship has been accepted to CVPR 2025. The paper is available [here](https://microsoft.github.io/GASP/).

_news/2025-07-24-BMVC.md

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+layout: post
+date: 2025-07-24
+title: DEAD has been accepted to BMVC
+inline: false
+---
+
+Our paper, DEAD (previously dubbing for everyone) is now accepted at BMVC25. See you all in Sheffield.

_pages/about.md

@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ selected_papers: false # includes a list of papers marked as "selected={true}"
 social: true  # includes social icons at the bottom of the page
 ---
 
-Hi! I'm Jack, a PhD student at the University of Bath. I'm fortunate to be supervised by [Vinay Namboodiri](https://vinaypn.github.io/) and [Darren Cosker](https://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~dpc/). I'm a part of [ART-AI](https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/) and [CAMERA](https://www.camera.ac.uk/). I have completed an internship with Epic Games, and am starting on a research internship at Microsoft this summer. I also run [RealSyncAI](http://realsyncai.com/) to communicate information around lip-sync models, deepfakes and video dubbing.
+Hi! I'm Jack, a reasearch scientist working on AI Avatars. I have recently finished my PhD and was fortunate to be supervised by [Vinay Namboodiri](https://vinaypn.github.io/) and [Darren Cosker](https://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~dpc/). I'm a part of [ART-AI](https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/) and [CAMERA](https://www.camera.ac.uk/). I run [RealSyncAI](http://realsyncai.com/) where I work with companies to build the next generation of Avatars, lip-sync models, and video dubbing. I'm spending most of my time these days building the rendering technology being used by [Tavus](https://tavus.io/). I have also interned with Microsoft and Epic Games.
 
-My research is centred around deep learning for Digital Humans. In particular, I'm looking at *style* in 2D and 3D facial animation, in particular emotional and idiosyncratic. The ultimate aim of my research is to allow for the creation and editing of facial video and 3D animations without the need for artistic skill or expensive performance capture systems. I'm also trying to keep it with the latest tech including: Gaussian Splatting, NeRFs, Diffusion Models, Transformers and Inverse/Differentiable Rendering. It's a lot!
+My research is centred around deep learning for Digital Humans. In particular, I'm looking at *style* in 2D and 3D facial animation, in particular emotional and idiosyncratic. The ultimate aim of my research is to allow for the creation and editing of facial video and 3D animations without the need for artistic skill or expensive performance capture systems. I'm also trying to keep it with the latest tech including: Gaussian Splatting, Diffusion Models, Transformers and Inverse/Differentiable Rendering.